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Byline: PATRICIA DAWN ROBERTSON, Special to The Globe and Mail Lead On Feb. 28, Coteau Books in Regina ceased operations after 45 years and entered into bankruptcy protection. The non-profit [...]

Byline: PATRICIA DAWN ROBERTSON BOOKS / THE DAILY REVIEW Foodshed An Edible Alberta Alphabet By dee Hobsbawn-Smith TouchWood Editions, 288 pages, $19.95 Food journalist dee Hobsbawn-Smith has set a lofty [...]

Byline: Patricia Dawn Robertson INTERVIEW SASKATOON -- 'Tell me about your childhood. Were you the cowboy or the Indian?' I ask Guy Vanderhaeghe. The Saskatoon novelist is seated with me [...]

Byline: PATRICIA DAWN ROBERTSON BOOKS / THE DAILY REVIEW Planting Dandelions: Field Notes from a Semi-Domesticated Life By Kyran Pittman Three Rivers Press, 256 pages, $32.50 - Expatriate Newfoundlander Kyran [...]

Byline: PATRICIA DAWN ROBERTSON; Special to The Globe and Mail BOOKS / THE DAILY REVIEW I Remember Nothing And Other Reflections By Nora Ephron Knopf, 137 pages, $25.95 Nora Ephron's [...]

Byline: PATRICIA DAWN ROBERTSON HUMOUR HOW DID YOU GET THIS NUMBER By Sloane Crosley Riverhead, 274 pages, $32.50 You don't have to live in Manhattan or work in the publishing [...]

Byline: PATRICIA DAWN ROBERTSON HERITAGE / BACK TO THE LAND MOVEMENT WAKAW, SASK. -- Next month the Métis community of Saskatchewan will mark the 125th anniversary of the Northwest Resistance [...]

Byline: PATRICIA DAWN ROBERTSON PUBLIC BROADCASTING Saskatchewan writer The Saskatchewan Communications Network, the province's shoddy, parochial television network, will go dark at the end of April. When I read the [...]

Byline: PATRICIA DAWN ROBERTSON 'JOBLESS RECOVERY' In my halcyon freelance days, I used to brag that 'I'll never work for the Man.' Now, when the cheques are late, I daydream [...]

Byline: PATRICIA ROBERTSON SASKATCHEWAN / GAMBLING Saskatchewan-based writer Statistics Canada has crunched the numbers and Saskatchewan is officially on a money-high. We're so flush with resource money that we're gambling [...]

Byline: PATRICIA ROBERTSON CARPETBAGGING? Awkward prosperity on Prairies WAKAW, SASK. -- Saskatchewan-based writer I was at my local Hometown Foods last week when I bumped into a friend looking for [...]

Byline: PATRICIA ROBERTSON When earnest Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff told the Canadian Federation of Agriculture last week that he wanted to 'earn back the trust' of rural Canadians, I had [...]

Byline: PATRICIA ROBERTSON; Saskatchewan-based writer 'The Olympics can no more have a deficit than a man can have a baby,' boasted giddy Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau when concerns were raised [...]

Byline: PATRICIA ROBERTSON; Saskatchewan-based writer Like many cash-strapped Canadians, I'd like to climb on Santa Harper's knee and make my case for why I'm an ideal Senate candidate. Here's why [...]

Byline: PATRICIA ROBERTSON; A Saskatchewan freelance writer Is it just me or has our world morphed into Groundhog Day? We wake up over and over again to the downer prospect [...]

Byline: PATRICIA ROBERTSON; Special to The Globe and Mail When South American wineries want to know for sure that their products are worthy of their label, they call on Saskatchewan [...]

Byline: PATRICIA ROBERTSON THE PRAIRIE BRIDESMAID By Daria Salamon Key Porter, 264 pages, $27.95 As all good fiction should, Daria Salamon's debut novel, The Prairie Bridesmaid, triggered some happy memories [...]

Byline: PATRICIA ROBERTSON; A Saskatchewan freelance journalist Saskatchewan successfully faced its first energy crisis in 1949 when NDP premier Tommy Douglas implemented the rural electrification program. Almost 60 years later, [...]

Byline: Patricia Robertson I often entertain fantasies about bringing down the current government. Except, instead of putting forward a non-confidence motion, I'd be at the centre of a pillow-talk scandal [...]

Byline: PATRICIA ROBERTSON AROUND THE WORLD IN 571/2 GIGS By Dave Bidini McClelland & Stewart, 320 pages, $34.99 I first saw musician and writer Dave Bidini read at Pages Bookstore [...]

Byline: PATRICIA ROBERTSON; Special to The Globe and Mail REGINA -- It's Wednesday afternoon, just four days before The 22nd Annual Gemini Awards, and the show is still without a [...]

Byline: PATRICIA ROBERTSON THE FIRST MAN IN MY LIFE Daughters Write About Their Fathers Edited by Sandra Martin Penguin Canada, 252 pages, $24 The First Man in My Life owes [...]

Byline: PATRICIA ROBERTSON REGINA -- It has been the kind of week to make lefties double up on their Prozac. For starters, Bert Brown, famed champion of the Triple-E Senate, [...]

Byline: PATRICIA ROBERTSON WAKAW, SASK -- For all its supposed generosity, Jim Flaherty's 2007 budget left a lot of people off the books. It was a depressing day for Canada's [...]

Byline: PATRICIA ROBERTSON We've all seen them. The older man at the intersection with the bald pate, the paunch and the aviator glasses revving up his shiny roadster. The testosterone-fuelled [...]

Byline: PATRICIA ROBERTSON WAKAW, SASK. -- Most people think of Saskatchewan as a modest, straight-laced province. A closer look at current by-election campaigning, however, reveals some surprising regional quirks -- [...]

Byline: PATRICIA ROBERTSON It's mid-February and the deep freeze has overstayed its welcome. Naturally, Canadians are masochistically obsessed with our recent spate of stormy weather. We track the nightly national [...]

Byline: PATRICIA ROBERTSON WAKAW, SASK. -- It's easy to be complacent about poverty and homelessness when you're a disillusioned liberal pricing out pleather sofas at the Brick or pawing through [...]

Byline: PATRICIA ROBERTSON WAKAW, SASK. -- The party's over. Peak oil, extreme deficit-taming and a steady stream of arrivals have Albertans reeling with the spinoff costs of boom times. Former [...]

Byline: PATRICIA ROBERTSON; Special to The Globe and Mail CALGARY -- 'My five hole is a triangle of endless space in a hot mountain of wet padding and plastic, a [...]

Byline: PATRICIA ROBERTSON WAKAW, SASK. -- Level with me: When you think of Prairie people, 'sex-crazed' is probably not the first description that springs to mind. Thrifty and earnest, yes. [...]

Byline: PATRICIA ROBERTSON WAKAW, SASK. -- This week's National Hockey League season opener was a welcome sign to Canadians. As the burly men with their chipped teeth and big portfolios [...]

Byline: PATRICIA ROBERTSON WAKAW, SASK. -- As Hollywood releases a remake of All the King's Men, the story of a leader's rise to power poisoned by political corruption (shades of [...]

Byline: PATRICIA ROBERTSON WAKAW, SASK. -- This is the time of year that many parents dread: Their older children are about to leave the nest for university. These parents will [...]

Byline: PATRICIA ROBERTSON QU'APPELLE VALLEY, SASK. -- The moon rises over the Qu'Appelle Valley's rambling hoodoos as a crew sets up an overnight shoot for The Englishman's Boy. The last [...]

Byline: PATRICIA ROBERTSON WAKAW, SASK. -- In the run up to Canada Day, our bureaucratic money-men convened last week at lovely Niagara-on-the-Lake to ponder the fiscal imbalance. Some provinces are [...]

Byline: PATRICIA ROBERTSON; Special to The Globe and Mail SASKATOON -- At the beginning of this month, Sylvia Legris's quiet poet's life was dramatically altered when she won the coveted [...]

Byline: PATRICIA ROBERTSON Last weekend, the evangelical fringe of the Conservative Party resurfaced, despite the Prime Minister's best efforts to muzzle his 125 MPs. Saskatchewan Tory Maurice Vellacott went off [...]

Byline: PATRICIA ROBERTSON The recent debacle that surrounded Oprah's controversial book club selection of James Frey's memoir, A Million Little Pieces, demonstrates just how much antipathy there can be between [...]

Byline: PATRICIA ROBERTSON Travels with Farley: A Memoir By Claire Mowat Key Porter, 272 pages, $29.95 'When a writer is born into a family, that family is finished.' -- Philip [...]

Byline: PATRICIA ROBERTSON Wickett's Remedy By Myla Goldberg Bond Street, 326 pages $34.95 Wickett's Remedy left a bad taste in my mouth. New York writer Myla Goldberg's follow-up novel to [...]

Byline: PATRICIA ROBERTSON Lines of Truth and Conversation By Joan Alexander Porcupine's Quill, 186 pages, $18.95 Joan Alexander's character-driven short fiction is peopled with overly possessive daughters-in-law, social-climbing rabbis, reluctant [...]