Estevan Mercury

It's not often in this opinion column business one can lay claim to accurately predicting the future. Most of the time it's a crapshoot.

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Estevan's annual fundraiser for the Canadian Cancer Society was down in numbers but still high in spirits and enthusiasm.

Burton Cummings has played as a piano soloist in a lounge, and he's played before 500,000 people at SARStock in 2003. Now the Canadian music icon is set to do his "damnedest" to put on a great show in Estevan.

There was an interesting article on the Western Producer website. It was about a speaker encouraging rural area businesses to get involved with the social media craze that has engulfed the world.

I was thinking about how instant our world is these days. Everything seems to happen so quickly. And then I started thinking about relationships, and how they are just as rapid as a trip to the McDonald's drive-through.

Canada is either getting more peaceful or other countries are becoming less so. The former would be ideal. Canada jumped three spots to rank as the fourth most peaceful country on the planet, according to the 2012 Global Peace Index.

If you're a Major League Baseball player with a need for career rejuvenation, the Toronto Blue Jays may be the team to join.

The Estevan RCMP detachment has announced the driver of a car that collided with a train Sunday in Macoun has passed away.