Opinion

The provincial government is sending out mixed signals these days.

The Editor: I am writing this letter in response to the editorial in the April 7 Mercury about the revival of the Golden Garbage Can competition.I am not quite sure if this person is living in the city of Estevan or having a bad dream.

Generally speaking, I enjoy writing these columns because within their parameters I get to be a little foolish, critical or sometimes radical in thought and deed.

Our provincial government is no doubt having second thoughts regarding new regulations that are allowing health foundations to directly contact former hospital patients by using snippets of information received from the patients' confidential health

I think I'd like to be Governor-General. I have applied for the job on four separate occasions and have never even made the short list.

The Editor: When the outlook for your child's life is one that will be filled with pain, bones constantly breaking and no chance to walk, you will search for anything that could improve that quality of life for your baby.

It's heartening to hear that the City of Estevan has mustered up the fortitude to once again issue a challenge for the coveted Golden Garbage Can, that symbol of community cleanliness that is known far and wide, or at least in Weyburn and Estevan.

The time has come for the federal government to quit playing mind games with the First Nations University of Canada. Past management misdeeds and careless administration practices were admitted to long ago and rectified.

The time has come for the federal government to quit playing mind games with the First Nations University of Canada. Past management misdeeds and careless administration practices were admitted to long ago and rectified.

I was just wondering, what do you think would happen if the Saskatchewan Roughriders became a real, I mean a really real, public corporation? Let's admit it folks, this Saskatchewan franchise isn't really publicly owned at all, it's sorta pseudo-publ