I saw a shout out on social media to three young fellows who immediately pitched in to help a senior in a scooter struggling to get it maneuvered onto the sidewalk. The person posting had the best line - "Bless them and their parents for raising good humans." I wanted to mention this because the degree of an...

This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. So, the census. I got to question 78 and I saved it. I'll finish it up sometime this week. Interesting the questions now being asked and how it reflects society today. Questions about gender, questions about health, questions about languages - I think that will be interest...

Every year I say I'm going to cut back on the plants in my yard, starting with the tomatoes and peppers. I grow them and make salsa and soup in the fall. And invariably my decision to have say - eight plants - used to end up being about 25 and now seems to regularly fall into the 15 to 18 range. Which is a lot of to...

I find it interesting that Betty Nippi Albright is going to sit as an independent. There is the argument that those who voted her in voted because they wanted an NDP representative. Fair. But independent and not party affiliated is as much a choice to underscore protest as crossing to the other side. And I have mor...

This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. For a person to live as in pay rent and buy a few groceries, gas, pay for a vehicle, I'd say $50,000 a year wage is needed if you're on your own. I was looking at apartment rental costs in Saskatoon. About a thousand bucks a month for just a studio - so no real bedroom. Two bed...

This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. I completely get anyone's frustration with potholes. I actually have some of them memorized. Theres the cluster as you go over the overpass westbound on Circle near the Lorne Avenue exit. Or a whole string of them adjacent to the sign that says Airport Drive in a kilometre, as ...

This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. Health Canada announced it was approving a generic version of Ozempic. Which is important both for the individual and for your health care plans because as Health Canada states generic drugs can cost between 45 and 90 per cent cheaper. I get completely the urge to take the d...

This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. The latest Angus Reid survey shows Canadian respondents, of which there were 2,013, only 11 per cent say the Carney government has exceeded expectations when it comes to advancing major national projects and 40 per cent said the federal government fell short of expectations. ...

So, one of my pet peeves is the various and sundry carts we all have for garbage disposal, that are NOT removed from the alley after garbage, recycle or yard waste pick up. Particularly in the winter. Because if you try to navigate the alley without landing in ruts you will run the risk of hitting one of those carts - ...

This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. The story out of Regina recently regarding a senior being urged to move from her home in social housing owned by the province to a seniors residence in order to make room for families is disheartening on a couple fronts. And I know the government says there is a policy written ...

This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. Some of the bad driving you see on Saskatchewan roads never ceases to astonish me. Just surf a few social media sites that follow traffic and you might be astounded not only at the number of transgressions but the type that is actually taking place. I mean the vehicle flipped o...

This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. I have to give Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre a thumbs up for pointing out that the federal government's decision to temporarily eliminate the federal fuel excise tax is essentially a net zero exercise for Canadians. With the switch to summer gas which is always more ex...

I saw a post on Social Media the other day where a woman was at a local mall in the food court having a meal with her family when allegedly a woman approached her table and loomed over them demanding food. The woman gave her money to get her away from her kids. My first reaction is to be aggressive myself. But I have l...

This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. I picked up on a thread of posts in a group I follow and at first didn't really comprehend what was being said but then when I did, I thought yeah, good point. Someone took a picture of a person lying on a bench in a mall. And then the haters piled on. But the person in the...