Estevan Mercury

Farmers are enjoying what is a near anomaly in terms of agriculture as there are good prices on both the livestock and grain side of things.

Maybe it's because I never grew up in a Canada in which the polar bear is a national symbol, but when I think Canada, I don't think of polar bears, or vice versa. One senator doesn't like that beavers are our national symbol.

The party is over but the cleanup has just begun. And it really wasn't much of a party to begin with. The Saskatchewan Roughriders wrapped up their season Friday night with a 23-20 last-minute loss to the Eskimos in Edmonton.

He said, she said

It was 1942 when Joseph Gervais, a farm boy from Hitchcock, received an invitation from the Canadian government to attend a medical exam in Regina on Jan. 1, 1943.

A few years ago, my parents made the difficult decision to leave our family farm and move into town. We called our farm home for some 36 years.

Hunger averted, dignity regained by recipients

The Estevan Bruins ran a deficit of more than $60,000 last season, it was revealed at the team's annual general meeting on Wednesday.