The cartoon showed a man dropping his empty bottles into the recycle bin, when out of the bin, a genie suddenly appeared, saying, “I’ll grant you three wishes if you can get me out of here!”

Everybody loves a good comeback story, and the world of sports has been presented with a couple of good ones in the last few months.

Over the years, we have adopted many farm cats from several different sources. In spite of providing prime feline habitat, including a barn loft full of fresh straw bales, these cats never stuck around. That is, until Marmalade.

The joke goes like this ... “I was going to open a business renting out blow up bouncy castles, but I’ve heard that the federal government doesn’t like it when you inflate your assets.”

In public policy terms, it’s called “generals fighting the last war.” It’s the doomed—if entirely understandable—default tactic of using the same strategies and weapons that won previous battles in an entirely new setting against a new foe.

Toronto Blue Jays are going to score a ton of runs in 2021, and get huge TV ratings because of their explosive lineup, but rules of baseball insist that manager Charlie Montoyo put his team out in the field on defence for nine innings every day.

This week’s joke goes like this ... “I find it hard to understand that people still don’t know how to correctly use ‘their’, ‘there’ and ‘they’re’. Their so stupid!”

Hey, hockey fans, there’s another Connor Superstar lacing up his skates, ready to show up on your Hockey Night in Canada TV screens in oh, about four years.

Secure jobs. Secure accountability. Secure mental health. Secure our country. Secure Canada’s economy. These Five points are the Conservative plan to move Canada past the COVID-19 pandemic.

Six bobble-headed judges came up with the conclusion that we have Global Warming and they figure Trudeau’s Carbon Tax will stop it.

What causes someone to use whatever influence they have to care for people who are less fortunate? Audrey Hepburn, whose career spanned the Golden Age of Hollywood, passed away nearly three decades ago, however her granddaughter continues to carry on her humanitarian efforts.

In Canada, more than 80,000 cases of skin cancer are diagnosed every year.

It’s rare that the Canadian Football League makes headlines — in two countries, no less — in March, but when there’s money and merger on the line, not to mention potential for salvation and/or demise, headlines come easy.

I think if the Conservatives want to win the next election, they will have to ride the old global warming horse pretty hard, because Trudeau has the voters pretty well brainwashed on the subject.

Here’s a riddle: Q: Which is the worst day for a guy to propose to his girl? A: April Fools Day!

Albertans don’t want a provincial sales tax. That much is clear.

Final votes recently took place on Liberal Bill C-7, an act that changes the laws around Medical Assistance in Dying (also known as assisted suicide or euthanasia).

I’ve never met you, but have been a long time subscriber to The Oyen Echo. Really pleased that you have taken over and continue to publish.

I hear a criminal’s life has been judged to be worth “Twenty Seven Million Dollars.” I wonder what they would consider a good upstanding honest citizen to be worth?

I read a joke that read like this ... “I petitioned to rename a Canadian province. Their government would have Nunavut.”