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Parental leave policies crucial

Martin is an adjunct professor in the department of sociology at the University of Saskatchewan.

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Wall's victory not surprising

Craig is Prairie director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

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Perfect storm wallops NDP

Cooper is with Praxis Analytics, a Saskatchewan research and consulting company

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Take time out to remember

For the first time in more than a decade, when thousands of Saskatoon residents stand at Credit Union Centre Friday in the country's largest indoor Remembrance ceremony, Canada will not have troops on combat operations overseas.

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How Canada leads

There has been much grumbling in recent years in Canada about this country's declining global influence.

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Canada's ability to supply food to world declines

Crowley is managing director of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, a public policy think tank in Ottawa.

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Admit the best, not most fluent

With Canada counting on attracting hundreds of thousands of skilled immigrants in coming years to replace its aging workforce and maintain its productivity and prosperity, Ottawa's proposal to get tougher with testing newcomers for fluency in either English or French is anachronistic and counterproductive.

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Call to action key on innovation

MacKinnon is president of the University of Saskatchewan.

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Tax, royalty rates boost growth

People in Saskatchewan understand that you don't measure the size of a crop when seeding is still underway. Farmers invest their time and money in the spring to generate a return in the fall, knowing it takes patience and diligent management to turn the potential of a seed into a bountiful harvest.

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Time to share resource wealth

Watson is first vice-chief of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations.

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Revenue sharing policy proposal divisive, unwise

Newman is a professor of law at the University of Saskatchewan.

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Getting human dimension right

This is the second in a series of two viewpoint articles by Saskatoon Mayor Don Atchison.

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In no position to cast stones

The world was shocked last week when surveillance videos showed shoppers and merchants in a Chinese market fail to help a two-year-old girl who was lying on the street bleeding after a vehicle struck her.

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