http://www.paherald.sk.ca/images/logo/31_Herald-E-Header-for-web.jpghttp://www.paherald.sk.ca/List of the latest articles from this category.http://www.paherald.sk.ca/Opinion-4202Wed, 16 May 2012 20:00:02 -0400Wed, 16 May 2012 20:00:02 -0400enhttp://www.paherald.sk.ca/Opinion/2012-05-14/article-2978479/COLUMN%3A-PERRY-BERGSON-%26mdash%3B-May-14%2C-2012/1Mon, 14 May 2012 07:49:29 -0400I’m choosing the day after we celebrated mothers to puzzle over the complex, confusing and ultimately life-changing relationship between fathers and sons. It’s been a topic rattling around my brain a lot lately for a very good reason. On May 5, my dad was inducted into the Manitoba Softball ...http://www.paherald.sk.ca/Opinion/2012-05-14/article-2978479/COLUMN%3A-PERRY-BERGSON-%26mdash%3B-May-14%2C-2012/1perry.bergson@tc.tcOpinionhttp://www.paherald.sk.ca/Opinion/2012-05-14/article-2978479/COLUMN%3A-PERRY-BERGSON-%26mdash%3B-May-14%2C-2012/1http://www.paherald.sk.ca/Opinion/2012-05-08/article-2974101/COLUMN%3A-Perry-Bergson-%26mdash%3B-May-7%2C-2012/1Tue, 08 May 2012 15:19:55 -0400I had Rodney Thomson sitting in my office recently and he asked me a question that I never could have answered. “What was the biggest shipwreck before the Titanic went down?” Fortunately he brought the answer with him in an issue of Titanic Times, one of a series of newspapers printed full of ...http://www.paherald.sk.ca/Opinion/2012-05-08/article-2974101/COLUMN%3A-Perry-Bergson-%26mdash%3B-May-7%2C-2012/1perry.bergson@tc.tcOpinionhttp://www.paherald.sk.ca/Opinion/2012-05-08/article-2974101/COLUMN%3A-Perry-Bergson-%26mdash%3B-May-7%2C-2012/1http://www.paherald.sk.ca/Opinion/2012-04-30/article-2967023/COLUMN%3A-Perry-Bergson-%26mdash%3B-April-30%2C-2012/1Mon, 30 Apr 2012 08:31:27 -0400I’ve never understood people who litter. I guess it’s part of a long list of things that will never compute for me. In another of those long-running battles between good and evil, folks in Prince Albert will spend the week of May 6-12 cleaning up the mess. I had the good fortune of being ...http://www.paherald.sk.ca/Opinion/2012-04-30/article-2967023/COLUMN%3A-Perry-Bergson-%26mdash%3B-April-30%2C-2012/1perry.bergson@tc.tcOpinionhttp://www.paherald.sk.ca/Opinion/2012-04-30/article-2967023/COLUMN%3A-Perry-Bergson-%26mdash%3B-April-30%2C-2012/1http://www.paherald.sk.ca/Opinion/2012-04-23/article-2961563/COLUMN%3A-Perry-Bergson-%26mdash%3B-April-23%2C-2012/1Mon, 23 Apr 2012 08:35:04 -0400Have you ever had somebody explain something new to you, and when they were done, wondered why it wasn’t always that way? Intern reporter Derek Cornet and I recently met with Dr. Randy Friesen and Ron Epp, the senior project manager for the Saskatchewan Surgical Initiative with the provincial ...http://www.paherald.sk.ca/Opinion/2012-04-23/article-2961563/COLUMN%3A-Perry-Bergson-%26mdash%3B-April-23%2C-2012/1perry.bergson@tc.tcOpinionhttp://www.paherald.sk.ca/Opinion/2012-04-23/article-2961563/COLUMN%3A-Perry-Bergson-%26mdash%3B-April-23%2C-2012/1http://www.paherald.sk.ca/Opinion/2012-04-23/article-2961560/COLUMN%3A-Perry-Bergson-%26mdash%3B-April-16%2C-2012/1Mon, 23 Apr 2012 08:33:19 -0400Sometimes the best way to avoid getting in trouble later is to admit your sins up front. So, in that spirit, it’s time to ask the good people of Prince Albert for their forgiveness. While it might seem unthinkable here, this Manitoba boy is a lifelong Brandon Wheat Kings fan. It gets worse. I’m ...http://www.paherald.sk.ca/Opinion/2012-04-23/article-2961560/COLUMN%3A-Perry-Bergson-%26mdash%3B-April-16%2C-2012/1perry.bergson@tc.tcOpinionhttp://www.paherald.sk.ca/Opinion/2012-04-23/article-2961560/COLUMN%3A-Perry-Bergson-%26mdash%3B-April-16%2C-2012/1http://www.paherald.sk.ca/Opinion/2012-04-23/article-2961554/COLUMN%3A-Perry-Bergson-%26mdash%3B-April-9%2C-2012/1Mon, 23 Apr 2012 08:32:04 -0400Many years ago, the great American president Theodore Roosevelt discussed what it takes to change our lot in life. “It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things,” he said. Little did I know that by moving on, he actually ...http://www.paherald.sk.ca/Opinion/2012-04-23/article-2961554/COLUMN%3A-Perry-Bergson-%26mdash%3B-April-9%2C-2012/1perry.bergson@tc.tcOpinionhttp://www.paherald.sk.ca/Opinion/2012-04-23/article-2961554/COLUMN%3A-Perry-Bergson-%26mdash%3B-April-9%2C-2012/1http://www.paherald.sk.ca/Opinion/2012-04-23/article-2961548/COLUMN%3A-Perry-Bergson-%26mdash%3B-April-2%2C-2012/1Mon, 23 Apr 2012 08:29:26 -0400I moved into my new home a week ago, which was terrific. Less terrific was the fact that my furniture remained in Brandon, except for the contents of the china cabinet. It made the last trip back to Prince Albert with me because my wife and I decided it might fare a little better with me than ...http://www.paherald.sk.ca/Opinion/2012-04-23/article-2961548/COLUMN%3A-Perry-Bergson-%26mdash%3B-April-2%2C-2012/1perry.bergson@tc.tcOpinionhttp://www.paherald.sk.ca/Opinion/2012-04-23/article-2961548/COLUMN%3A-Perry-Bergson-%26mdash%3B-April-2%2C-2012/1http://www.paherald.sk.ca/Opinion/2012-04-23/article-2961546/COLUMN%3A-Perry-Bergson-%26mdash%3B-March-26%2C-2012/1Mon, 23 Apr 2012 08:27:58 -0400Last Tuesday I had the opportunity to attend and report on a press conference at city hall. On a personal note, it was the first press conference I had covered since the spring of 1989. (To give that context, Brian Mulroney was prime minister, Grant Devine was premier and Mike Modano was taking ...http://www.paherald.sk.ca/Opinion/2012-04-23/article-2961546/COLUMN%3A-Perry-Bergson-%26mdash%3B-March-26%2C-2012/1perry.bergson@tc.tcOpinionhttp://www.paherald.sk.ca/Opinion/2012-04-23/article-2961546/COLUMN%3A-Perry-Bergson-%26mdash%3B-March-26%2C-2012/1http://www.paherald.sk.ca/Opinion/2012-04-23/article-2961543/COLUMN%3A-Perry-Bergson-%26mdash%3B-March-19%2C-2012/1Mon, 23 Apr 2012 08:26:48 -0400In the last week I’ve bought a house, officially sold one, visited Moose Jaw for the first time in years and ran out of gas on the Trans-Canada Highway after midnight in rural Manitoba. Let’s agree that I’ve been busy. Our house went on the market the Monday I started at the Daily Herald. The ...http://www.paherald.sk.ca/Opinion/2012-04-23/article-2961543/COLUMN%3A-Perry-Bergson-%26mdash%3B-March-19%2C-2012/1perry.bergson@tc.tcOpinionhttp://www.paherald.sk.ca/Opinion/2012-04-23/article-2961543/COLUMN%3A-Perry-Bergson-%26mdash%3B-March-19%2C-2012/1http://www.paherald.sk.ca/Opinion/2012-04-23/article-2961539/COLUMN%3A-Perry-Bergson-%26mdash%3B-March-12%2C-2012/1Mon, 23 Apr 2012 08:25:16 -0400In a couple of months. I’ll be celebrating 25 years in the newspaper industry. It has been a remarkable ride, due in no small part to the technological revolution that has swept the planet. It’s not that many years ago — or maybe, sadly, it is — since I would get home after school and plunk ...http://www.paherald.sk.ca/Opinion/2012-04-23/article-2961539/COLUMN%3A-Perry-Bergson-%26mdash%3B-March-12%2C-2012/1perry.bergson@tc.tcOpinionhttp://www.paherald.sk.ca/Opinion/2012-04-23/article-2961539/COLUMN%3A-Perry-Bergson-%26mdash%3B-March-12%2C-2012/1http://www.paherald.sk.ca/Opinion/2012-04-23/article-2961533/COLUMN%3A-Perry-Bergson-%26mdash%3B-March-5%2C-2012/1Mon, 23 Apr 2012 08:22:50 -0400By Perry Bergson It’s been quite a week. I’m told that changing jobs is one of the most stressful things that a person can do. I decided that moving a province to the left while leaving my wife behind in Brandon, Man., to sell our house would be a good idea as well. But more on the house ...http://www.paherald.sk.ca/Opinion/2012-04-23/article-2961533/COLUMN%3A-Perry-Bergson-%26mdash%3B-March-5%2C-2012/1perry.bergson@tc.tcOpinionhttp://www.paherald.sk.ca/Opinion/2012-04-23/article-2961533/COLUMN%3A-Perry-Bergson-%26mdash%3B-March-5%2C-2012/1http://www.paherald.sk.ca/Opinion/2012-04-23/article-2961522/EDITORIAL%3A-The-sad-toll-of-human-barbarity/1Mon, 23 Apr 2012 08:10:34 -0400In a small town in Texas on Tuesday, a woman shot a new mom and snatched up her three-day-old son. The 28-year-old dying woman tried to take the boy back, screaming “My baby! My baby!” but the killer sped off. The baby was recovered unharmed but the woman who took him is in custody. In South ...http://www.paherald.sk.ca/Opinion/2012-04-23/article-2961522/EDITORIAL%3A-The-sad-toll-of-human-barbarity/1Opinionhttp://www.paherald.sk.ca/Opinion/2012-04-23/article-2961522/EDITORIAL%3A-The-sad-toll-of-human-barbarity/1http://www.paherald.sk.ca/Opinion/2012-02-04/article-2886003/Accepting-truths-will-allow-Canada-to-reconcile-its-past/1Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:57:23 -0500Confronting one's history can be a challenging task when that history is fraught with truths that one would rather forget. When that history is of a country as a whole, and a false sense of identity has had centuries to permeate, it can be almost impossible to confront, or so it would seem ...http://www.paherald.sk.ca/Opinion/2012-02-04/article-2886003/Accepting-truths-will-allow-Canada-to-reconcile-its-past/1jason.stockfish@paherald.sk.caOpinionhttp://www.paherald.sk.ca/Opinion/2012-02-04/article-2886003/Accepting-truths-will-allow-Canada-to-reconcile-its-past/1http://www.paherald.sk.ca/Opinion/2012-01-20/article-2869514/Time-for-most-Saskatchewan-communities-to-get-with-the-recycling-program/1Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:14:54 -0500As I tossed my disposable coffee cup into the trash Thursday morning, I noticed the recyclable logo with the number six on the plastic lid. It was not the first time I’d noticed, but throwing a product designed to be recycled into the trash bothered me more than usual.http://www.paherald.sk.ca/Opinion/2012-01-20/article-2869514/Time-for-most-Saskatchewan-communities-to-get-with-the-recycling-program/1jason.stockfish@paherald.sk.caOpinionhttp://www.paherald.sk.ca/Opinion/2012-01-20/article-2869514/Time-for-most-Saskatchewan-communities-to-get-with-the-recycling-program/1http://www.paherald.sk.ca/Opinion/2012-01-05/article-2855537/Its-only-a-game----but-what-a-game-it-is/1Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:08:42 -0500To say I was nervous before the puck dropped in Tuesday night’s semi-final hockey game between Canada and the Russians would be an understatement. And, really, was there a Canadian hockey fan out there who wasn’t concerned about meeting the Ruskies for the first time since their third period ...http://www.paherald.sk.ca/Opinion/2012-01-05/article-2855537/Its-only-a-game----but-what-a-game-it-is/1jason.stockfish@paherald.sk.caOpinionhttp://www.paherald.sk.ca/Opinion/2012-01-05/article-2855537/Its-only-a-game----but-what-a-game-it-is/1