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Rider Insider - Nov. 14

Rod Pedersen / Carlyle Observer

November 14, 2014

That’s all she wrote. The 2014 season for the Saskatchewan Roughriders came to a painful conclusion on Sunday with an 18-10 loss to the Edmonton Eskimos in the Western ...

New ideas needed to move forward

November 14, 2014

So last week I started what became a two-part column around how stuck in old ideas the broader ...

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November 14, 2014

And now the moment you've all been waiting for. After a gruelling 20-week regular season from which...

Dealing with grain transportation

November 14, 2014

Grain transportation is obviously a huge issue for farmers. That has been the case for decades in ...

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November 7, 2014

Well, here we are!The Saskatchewan Roughriders have reached the final week of the 2014 regular ...

Bees are nature's pollinators

November 7, 2014

Who would have thought the humble honey bee would become the sounding bell to raise public concern ...

Weather always topic of discussion

October 31, 2014

If there is one topic which always gets discussed whenever farmers get together, it is the weather....

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October 31, 2014

Many people are surprised at the positive nature of the comments and the upbeat feeling the ...

World Food Day may be more critical today

October 24, 2014

When you are in the journalism business it's an unusual day when there are not a few email in the ...

Rider Insider

October 24, 2014

The Saskatchewan Roughriders are hurting right now. At 9-7, they've lost four games in a row ...

CWB was the great barrier to competition

October 10, 2014

For a moment this week I was pretty sure I had somehow slipped back a year, or two in time. I was ...

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September 26, 2014

No one is complaining today. Sunday's 35-32 double-overtime win for the Saskatchewan Roughriders ...

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September 5, 2014

Another week, another win. The Winnipeg Blue Bombers made the Saskatchewan Roughriders work for it,...

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August 29, 2014

That was amazing! I thought we'd hit the peak of intensity when the Roughriders walked into ...

My, how things have changed

August 29, 2014

Have you ever looked back a few years and wondered just what happened? It struck me recently as I ...

How the consumer views foods

August 22, 2014

Somewhere along the way the idea of chemicals has been made to be a scary word, especially when it ...

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August 22, 2014

The Grey Cup hangover is officially over. However does the honeymoon have to end as well? The ...

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