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By Brian Zinchuk
Pipeline News Editor - Columnist
Brian Zinchuk is the editor of Pipeline News, Saskatchewan's petroleum monthly newspaper, based in Estevan. Prior to that, he spent 10 years in North Battleford, the last five working as the city hall, courts and cops reporter for the Battlefords News-Optimist. Zinchuk has been writing a weekly opinion column since 1992, and has been named Saskatchewan Weekly Newspaper Association Columnist of the Year three times in recent years.
The juxtaposition couldn't have been more striking. On the web page of the Stars and Stripes (www....
posted: April 13,2013
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posted: March 29,2013
As I pack up to leave a photographers' convention in Las Vegas, one trend I noticed is at top of...
posted: March 22,2013
It's an interesting pickle school divisions and the teachers, who make up the bulk of their...
posted: March 15,2013
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posted: March 8,2013
As a photographer, you get me started on the topic of cameras, and you might have to block off an...
posted: March 1,2013
When my grandfather came to Canada in 1930 at the age of 13, his family cleared 19 acres of land,...
posted: February 22,2013
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posted: February 8,2013
What to do, what to do? This is the question facing the United States right now when it comes to...
posted: February 1,2013
Canadian shoppers are idiots. Recently I had the chance to peruse the Weyburn City Centre Mall. I...
posted: January 25,2013
This week, on Dec. 21, the world is supposed to end. At least, that's what some people think the...
posted: December 21,2012
I was sitting at my desk one Friday when I got a call from an urgent-sounding man with a south-...
posted: December 14,2012
The president of the United States flies in Air Force One, with a huge armed entourage. Multiple...
posted: November 30,2012
I have grown to love and, as I type this, occasionally hate couriers. This time of year tends to be ...
posted: November 23,2012
There are times when I look at my kids and hear my dad's voice ringing clear as a bell in my ear....
posted: November 16,2012
When one starts a big-inch pipeline job, the safety orientation takes a good chunk of the day. Part ...
posted: November 2,2012
The phrase "People have been shot for less" may sound glib, but in the case of navy Sub-Lt. Jeffrey ...
posted: October 26,2012
"Spencer. Spencer come here. SPENCER, COME HERE!" "Katrina, go get Spencer. Wait, never mind....
posted: October 19,2012
We heard the phrase "too big to fail" a lot during the global financial crisis in 2008-2009,...
posted: October 5,2012
