This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. I got a new iPhone. Which was surprisingly far less painful than my previous experiences. Last time 'round I switched out from a Samsung to an iPhone - a process which made me want to poke my own eye out with a stick. And I have barely had time to explore the new phone to ensur...

This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. I don't travel in poor weather anymore. Or in the dark either, for the most part. I look back on my younger me who until about age 35 or so was willing to go hell bent for election, no matter the weather, if I had a place to go and people to see. I remember going to Yorkton one...

This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. I was at the grocery store this week and it has been some time since I bought anything in store bakery in terms of sweets because I am not going to pay those prices. It was $9.99 for a box of cookies. I think there was a dozen but frankly that's still not enough cookies for me ...

This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. Our news poll question is do you trust AI? I don't. Just Google something and see the Ai answer. It aggregates possibles which are quite often not what I am looking for or too generalized to give the full picture. Not. At. All. Reliable. I don't know if you heard about thi...

BHP has made Saskatoon its North American headquarters. The announcement was made recently after the mining giant moved from its office on 3rd Avenue South to River Quarry in downtown Saskatoon, which is the old police station. Cameco, the second largest uranium mining company in the world has its headquarters in Sas...

I'm Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. I am not going to whitewash it - I dislike apps in general, and I hate banking apps. I do not have a banking app on my phone, and I don't plan to have one anytime soon. I have nothing but admiration for folks older than me, seniors with some significant amount of living in the rear...

This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. So, if this doesn't put you in the Christmas spirit, I don't know what would. I follow the Facebook site "Warman, Osler, Martensville and area Buy and Sell" just because apparently, I need to acquire more stuff. Regardless, a gentleman posted about a lost purse. But n...

I was actually surprised that so few people would not report an encampment in their community. That was our News Poll question. Which because of the need for brevity, tends to make a complex issue more black and white than it is. I was among the 18 per cent who would not report an encampment, but I based that on it not...

This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. I have to admit I was a little taken aback by the number of people who do not use a credit monitoring service. That was our newspoll question earlier this week and 89 per cent said they don't use one. I do - by happenstance - because a company I dealt with had information of it...

This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. So the only way for my husband and I to enjoy watching the Grey Cup with my Mom is either I take a day off and see it at her place or we go get her. Bless my husband, he drove the just over two hours it takes to get Moose Jaw and then turned around and came right back. It's a l...

This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. I have to admit one of my probably odd pleasures in life is going through actual physical flyers. And even more so - a catalogue because I grew up in the era of the Sears Christmas Wishbook. A much-cherished book of all the things a little girl's heart could dream of. There are...

This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. I was en route to being early to work today but then Mother Nature decided to show off. Social media is ablaze with photographs, including my own, of the aurora borealis. It appears the "lady" was dancing all night long north to south not just in Western Canada but...

This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. Remembrance Day tomorrow is near and dear for me and my family. My father was a cop, my mother was in the Navy, my brother in the Canadian Airborne regiment and my husband spent 26 years in the Canadian forces serving six tours of duty overseas. I find it heartening to hear the...

This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. I don't know why the first snowfall always seems to catch everyone off guard. I say that in context of driving in winter weather. It's like it something no one ever tried or mastered in the past. Just drive to conditions. For instance, I left my alley this morning and made...

So, the federal budget. That's a doozy of a number. A 78.3-billion-dollar deficit is the amount of money spent by the government beyond its revenues - for this fiscal year. The budget limits areas of spending and includes competitiveness, trade diversification, defence and housing, rather than a broader focus encompa...