WoodPile The Timorous Suggestions

legitimacy of our mission, he allowed us to continue.

Submitted this week is a copy of the woodcut which was made by myself, printed in the school magazine and is in the Carluke Parish historical archives.

Having received some positive feedback on my suggestion that the chapel could be relocated, I am sufficiently emboldened to make a further timorous suggestion. Why not move it to one of the local cemeteries. I am sure this would generate consider- it looks like the world around has gone unhinged and everything is indeed really bad.

I get that vibe from my grandma. With pain in her voice, she tells me about how scary the world became. There are floods in some regions, and fires in other ones, there are wars and mass shootings, violent outbreaks during protests in some countries and disease outbreaks in others. That’s all she gets from news broadcasts.

That’s where I hit my professional “the chicken or the egg” dilemma. Are there more issues in the world on average, or does it feel like it because that’s all people want to hear?

Believe me, there are not that many journalists that sincerely appreciate writing about all the negative news. Most reporters would prefer to look into other topics and story ideas more often than they get to. But we often feel that that’s what the readers want, so we end up writing more about crimes and accidents.

Getting back to SaskToday, we are still a young and ambitious project. Nearly two years ago,

Now that spring has sprung and I have been outside tidying, I have become aware of the number of jet planes flying over this city from many distant countries — their routes can be tracked on Flight Radar. These planes must create sufficient pollution to render my humble efforts in this regard totally useless. I find it confusing that our green government is building at great cost a pipeline to supply oil to Indo-Pacific rim countries. Our natural resources are not unlimited and the tap will need to be shut off some time. If Mr. Trudeau is so determined to reduce world pollution, why are we not enabling these countries to develop alternatives to oil and natural gas? I cannot figure out the contradiction – this government intends to export oil and gas while we will be expected to struggle with electric several smaller websites, which were producing news about our local communities, merged into one provincial news hub. Reporters and editors are still working on the ground, covering community news of all kinds. Just like me and Dave, there are journalists in Weyburn, Yorkton, Outlook, North Battleford as well as Regina and Saskatoon and other locations across Saskatchewan, who are working in their respective communities and then upload everything we do onto SaskToday.ca.

We are still looking for our own development path, and while we have a very wide range of news regularly updated on our website, our “three S” turned into the “three C” with news from police departments, court houses and about any kind of crimes attracting the most attention.

When looking through our feed, even I sometimes start feeling that Saskatchewan seems to be pretty dangerous. But is the province indeed getting unhinged, or are more crimes, cops and court news produced and distrib- vehicles in -20 degree weather and the country is going to require greatly enhanced electric power production and distribution with heavy duty power lines which are still susceptible to weather extremes as has been shown more than once in Ontario and Quebec. uted because people prefer to read them over other topics? Even with about 15 years in journalism, I still don’t have an answer. But before you blame media for fearmongering, check what you and those around you read and click on the most.

In a day or two Charles and Camilla will have been crowned in the presence of royalty and dignitaries including Mr. Trudeau. We know that he has just returned from New York, and I am sure he will be off again soon, but even I have to agree that he should be at Westminster Abbey for this historic occasion. One can be certain the press will be checking into which hotel he will favour and no doubt the cost of his accommodation will eventually be reluctantly revealed. How remarkable it is that his return to Ottawa coincided with the federal workers strike settlement. He certainly has the luck of the Irish, the gift of the gab and a magic touch.

And yes, to stay up to date on Saskatchewan’s “three Cs” and all other provincial news (we put a lot of work into ensuring all the positives make it out there as well), stay with us and keep reading SaskToday.ca.

Ana Bykhovskaia is a general reporter with the Estevan Mercury. She originally hails from StPetersburg, Russia.