Estevan Mercury

Canadians just aren't allowed to hate on one another anymore. Last week Weyburn's Bill Whatcott was deemed by the Supreme Court of Canada to have violated our country's hate-speech laws.

A little while ago, I was telling a friend at school that I had been using all of my spare time to watch The Vampire Diaries on Netflix.

With last night's series win over Kindersley, the Estevan Bruins now move on to the Sherwood Conference semis to meet the first-place Yorkton Terriers. Here's a look at the series.

The Estevan Bruins rode a quick start and a strong defensive effort to a 4-1 victory over the Kindersley Klippers on Wednesday, eliminating the Klippers in four games in the Sherwood Conference survivor series.

The Estevan Relay for Life committee is moving on from a tough 2012 season and setting optimistic goals for 2013. The group held its campaign kickoff at the Estevan Shoppers' Mall on Saturday afternoon.

The Bienfait Coalers needed overtime to get the job done in the first game of their semifinal series against the Redvers Rockets. The first-place Coalers edged sixth-place Redvers 4-3 in extra time on Friday in Bienfait to take a 1-0 series lead.

A 23-year-old woman was arrested and charged with assault as a result of a disturbance in a parking lot near a department store in the northeast area of the city on Feb. 26.

The playoffs are a brand new season in hockey and the CanElson Drilling Estevan Bruins drove that point home on Saturday and Sunday.