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    By Brian Zinchuk
    Brian Zinchuk is editor of Pipeline News, Saskatchewan's petroleum monthly newspaper, based in Estevan. Prior to that, he spent 10 years in North Battleford, the last five working as the city hall, courts and cops reporter for the Battlefords News-Optimist. Zinchuk has been writing a weekly opinion column since 1992, and has been named Saskatchewan Weekly Newspaper Association Columnist of the Year three times in recent years.

Bitten by the zombie bug

It started out simply enough. I was perusing the National Post online when I came upon a curious...

posted: May 15,2013

Bitten by the zombie bug

posted: May 15,2013

Time for Harper to bring down the hammer on B.C.

With the B.C. provincial election coming to a close, it’s getting really hard to take the rhetoric...

posted: May 8,2013

Lazy Canadians mean we need foreign workers

If you listened carefully the evening of Monday, April 29, you would have heard a collective groan...

posted: May 1,2013

How does an ice age start? With one snowflake

Hindsight is 20/20, they say. So looking back several decades, the scientists agreed – if...

posted: April 17,2013

Tanks for the memories

The juxtaposition couldn’t have been more striking. On the web page of the Stars and Stripes (www....

posted: April 10,2013

Do you really keep Jar Jar Binks on VHS?

My mom called me the other day and asked if I wanted some movies – five plastic tubs worth....

posted: April 3,2013

Squeeze a few more sardines into that flying tin can

I think many Western Canadians take a perverse pride in WestJet. It started out as a Western...

posted: March 26,2013

One is the loneliest number for a PC

As I pack up to leave a photographer’s convention in Las Vegas, one trend I noticed is at top of...

posted: March 19,2013

Training camp is in the off-season, so why aren’t teachers’ PD days?

It’s an interesting pickle for school divisions, and the teachers who make up the bulk of...

posted: March 12,2013

Canada should stay in NATO to stay out of wars

J.L. Granatstein may be a distinguished research fellow of the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs ...

posted: March 6,2013

Protesters don’t seem to like any energy source

When my grandfather came to Canada in 1930 at the age of 13, his family cleared 19 acres of land,...

posted: February 20,2013

Millions, billions, trillions, zillions ...

Watching the news the other day, my wife and I saw a term that isn’t very common – yet. It was peta,...

posted: February 6,2013

If I don’t get a galaxy, can I at least have a planet?

A few years ago I wrote about how the Hubble Space Telescope had discovered so many galaxies, there ...

posted: January 9,2013

Getting caught in the email trap

While visiting friends in Manitoba a while back, I noticed something while going for a walk in...

posted: December 28,2012

It may not be of the world, but it was close

This week, on Dec. 21, the world is supposed to end. At least, that’s what some people think the...

posted: December 19,2012

A united Maritimes will never, ever happen

Three Conservative senators are proposing the three Maritime provinces – Nova Scotia, New Brunswick ...

posted: December 5,2012

My Windows computer is infected? Really? Do tell…

I was sitting at my desk one Friday when I got a call from an urgent-sounding man with a south-...

posted: December 4,2012

Damn the orange juice, and Challengers, too

The president of the United States flies in Air Force One, with a huge armed entourage. Multiple...

posted: November 28,2012





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