menu_open Columnists

Saskatoon StarPhoenix
We use cookies to provide some features and experiences in QOSHE

More information  .  Close

Opinion: When your grocery bill starts pricing you

Opinion: When your grocery bill starts pricing you

With the rapid adoption of digital shelf labels, dynamic pricing can now be deployed inside physical grocery stores.

previous day 8

Saskatoon StarPhoenix

Sylvain Charlebois

Opinion: Public rental housing part of answer to Sask rental shortage

Opinion: Public rental housing part of answer to Sask rental shortage

There is a need for more of a grassroots voice for all types of tenants, from farmland to commercial to residential, a Saskatchewan tenants...

previous day 10

Saskatoon StarPhoenix

Viewpoints

Opinion: The grocery store checkout is not the crime scene

Opinion: The grocery store checkout is not the crime scene

If profiteering were the dominant force, margins would be expanding. They are not. What consumers are experiencing is cost pass-through within a...

20.12.2025 1

Saskatoon StarPhoenix

Sylvain Charlebois

Lewis: Baseball solved unsuccessful aging problem. Can health care?

Lewis: Baseball solved unsuccessful aging problem. Can health care?

Baseball is a great game that reaches a crescendo in the late innings. Our later years should be just as rewarding.

20.12.2025 1

Saskatoon StarPhoenix

Steven Lewis

Paulson: Housing market likely to remain tight in 2026

Paulson: Housing market likely to remain tight in 2026

Saskatchewan is less exposed to American tariffs than some other provinces, which has helped forestall such things as significant job losses seen...

20.12.2025 2

Saskatoon StarPhoenix

Joanne Paulson

Opinion: Economics, user trust causing rethink of self-checkouts

After years of automation hype, we are witnessing a partial return to human cashiers — not out of nostalgia, but out of necessity.

06.12.2025 2

Saskatoon StarPhoenix

Sylvain Charlebois

Opinion: Many in Sask. among Canadians grappling with food affordability

Although fewer Canadians say they dipped into savings or borrowed money to pay for groceries compared with last fall, the levels remain troublingly...

29.11.2025 1

Saskatoon StarPhoenix

Sylvain Charlebois

Opinion: Ottawa wants to keep beef prices high — deliberately

For a decade, no formal mechanism has existed for importers, retailers, or independent distributors to participate in discussions with government...

22.11.2025 1

Saskatoon StarPhoenix

Sylvain Charlebois

Cuthand: It's not goodbye, it's 'miostus' (later)

"I realized that the secret to longevity in the opinion section was to slowly work through a series of topics and educate the public."

22.11.2025 1

Saskatoon StarPhoenix

Doug Cuthand

Lewis: Quebec health law is a seizure of power

The government has unilateral authority to determine how physicians (and others) are to be paid.

22.11.2025 1

Saskatoon StarPhoenix

Steven Lewis