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Community

Everything you need to know about our Council Meetings

Council Meetings

Council meetings are held the second Wednesday of every month at 1:00 p.m. in Council Chambers of the RM office.

It should be noted that any correspondence to Council becomes part of the council meeting thereby becoming public record.

Information must be submitted the Wednesday prior to the council meeting date.

Public Attendance at Meetings

The public is welcome at any regular council meeting.  You will be there as an observer unless a request to the RM Office has been made to become a scheduled delegation the Wednesday prior to the date of the meeting.

How to become a delegation at a regular council meeting

If you or your business/organization wishes to make a presentation to council, you are required to do the following:

  • must submit in legible writing a request to council the Wednesday before the regular council meeting
  • the number of delegations to be present in front of council shall not exceed four
  • the delegation shall be allowed twenty minutes for their presentation

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Community

We Need Your Help: Share Your Photos of The Gap!

📸 Share Your Photos of The Gap!

We’re inviting residents and visitors to help us showcase the beauty and character of the RM of The Gap No. 39 on our new website. Whether it’s a scenic view of the countryside, a snapshot from a local event, or a photo of a unique landmark, we want to highlight the places and moments that make our RM special.

If you have images that capture the spirit of our community, we’d love to feature them! Your photos could appear on our website, offering others a glimpse into the heart of The Gap.

How to Contribute

  • Email your photos to info@oursask.info
  • Include a brief description and the location where each photo was taken
  • Make sure your images are high quality and that you have the rights to share them

We’re excited to see The Gap through your lens. Let’s work together to celebrate what makes our community such a wonderful place to live, work, and visit.

Thank you for your support—we can’t wait to see your contributions!

Warm regards,
The Gap Administrator
RM of The Gap No. 39

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Sport

Best Hiking & Biking Trails Near Our RM

The precise definition of what separates a sport from other leisure activities varies between sources. The closest to an international agreement on a definition is provided by SportAccord, which is the association for all the largest international sports federations (including association football, athletics, cycling, tennis, equestrian sports, and more), and is therefore the de facto representative of international sport.

The inclusion of mind sports within sport definitions has not been universally accepted, leading to legal challenges from governing bodies in regards to being denied funding available to sports. Whilst SportAccord recognises a small number of mind sports, it is not open to admitting any further mind sports.

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Culture

RM Library To Reopen After Reconstruction

The level of cultural sophistication has also sometimes been used to distinguish civilizations from less complex societies. Such hierarchical perspectives on culture are also found in class-based distinctions between a high culture of the social elite and a low culture, popular culture, or folk culture of the lower classes, distinguished by the stratified access to cultural capital. In common parlance, culture is often used to refer specifically to the symbolic markers used by ethnic groups to distinguish themselves visibly from each other such as body modification, clothing or jewelry.

Mass culture refers to the mass-produced and mass mediated forms of consumer culture that emerged in the 20th century. Some schools of philosophy, such as Marxism and critical theory, have argued that culture is often used politically as a tool of the elites to manipulate the proletariat and create a false consciousness. Such perspectives are common in the discipline of cultural studies.

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