This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. So the issues with gas prices and high diesel fuel prices are not going away anytime soon. Of course the major factor impacting gas and diesel prices is the conflict between the U.S. and Israel with Iran. All of that is impacting the straight of Hormuz where 20 per cent of the ...

This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. I distinctly remember covering a council or a committee meeting way back when and Pat Lorje was on council at that time when there was much debate over the Barry Hotel. This comes to mind today after I was on social media and read what started as one post that led to me readin...

See something suspicious in the meat aisle? Say something. Now there is a phrase I didn't think I'd ever hear. It's actually from a news release issued by Richmond, B.C. RCMP who say there have been 39 incidents of meat theft from retail locations in the area. As well the RCMP there believe, the pattern and volume of...

This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. According to the Angus Reid Institute, concern over cost of living has reached a three-year high in lower-income households amid gas price spikes. They note that the war in Iran has wiped out positive momentum on inflation in Canada, driving up the price of gas more than 20 pe...

This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. I was exiting off Circle Drive onto Taylor earlier this week when the vehicle in front of me suddenly halted and pulled further right on the right hand turn that we were both in the midst of making. I also halted. And initially wondered if they were experiencing a medical emerg...

This I'll be very curious to see what the latest CRISP report shows in the next few weeks. The amount of people we've seen in our own workplace as well as friends and family that have come down with some kind of bug is quite extreme, and it seems to be an extreme form of the bug with people saying they haven't felt thi...

This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. The wild weather ride continues. In Shaunavon there was thunder and lightning Tuesday night. It felled a pretty significant tree. By the end of day yesterday the Swift Current area, one of the regularly balmy regions of the province, had seen at least 15 centimetres of snow. ...

This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. I think I officially fall into the category of luddite. You know the fancy word for a person opposed to new technology. I don't know that I'm opposed necessarily but I would suggest that I tend to not excel in that arena without support. For instance, I'm on social media an...

This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. According to Stand Against Scams Campaign recent estimates measure daily scam attempts in Canada - in the billions. This is Fraud Prevention Month and one of those scams doing the rounds again is the Grandparent's Scam. I actually had those jokers call me - I picked up the phon...

This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. I'm not opposed to the idea of the bike lane on Victoria Avenue between Taylor and Ruth Streets. A lot of streets in that area - specially those going north/south because they are so wide, are great to cycle on. And I can totally see that on street parking isn't in high demand ...

This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. The point in time homeless count already released the over reaching numbers but the report is slated to be released this morning that will provide the real picture, for instance, how many children are part of the latest count. In November it was revealed that there were 1,931 i...

This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. It is Telemiracle weekend in Saskatchewan and it is part of my childhood memories as well as our family traditions. We always sat and watched some pretty long stretches of Telemiracle when I was a kid - because let's face it - initially we only had two channels and then eventua...

This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. I find the NDP's stance on the reporting line set up by the Health Authority - interesting. There is a Facebook post by leader Carla Beck that says Stitches not Snitches. The NDP says it is bringing forward legislation in the upcoming spring sitting of the legislature to ban wh...

The news about what is happening in Mexico is extremely disheartening. Puerto Vallarta is mine and my husband's go-to vacation mid-winter. It's affordable, we don't do all inclusive but stay downtown in the old town within a block of the beach and have a bunch of favorite haunts for morning coffee, snacks, shopping, a ...

This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. Social media continues to display the absolute worst in human beings and the best. The admins for a Facebook group I follow posted last night that it was implementing more member rules and then had to outline what behaviors are not allowed in the group, after someone made a pos...