Opinion

One evening a few of us gathered together to pray for various community needs.

Cheers: Cheers to the organizers of the Estevan Strippers Molson Spring Bust tournament. I’ts always a lot of fun for the players, and it’s great for the community, too. Cheers to the people who supported the Creighton Lodge fundraiser last week.

Entering Tuesday’s Alberta provincial election, there wasn’t much doubt as to who would form the province’s next government. The question was: how big would the margin of victory be for the United Conservative Party (UCP)? We now have our answer.

There will be a need for volunteers this spring and summer to step forward and once again make Weyburn proud, as a number of our local organizations will be hosting events.

The recurring theme that we hear in Estevan is the need to diversify the economy. Most people know that we don’t have a choice any longer. We know that Units 4 and 5 are going to come offline eventually, whether it’s this year or in a few years.

My Nikkel's worth column

The provincial election in Alberta, which will be all over with by the time you read this, may not impact us as voters and residents of Saskatchewan, but it will play a role in how political issues will be dealt with from this point on, including in

No matter whom I talked to the past week, most conversations came to drugs, marijuana and other consciousness-changing substances.

Twice in the space of 24 hours, I was tagged on Facebook with relation to a post or story about automation and its threat to jobs. The first post was from a man named Dave Shook, a self-described automation engineer working in the oilpatch.

Twice in the space of 24 hours, I was tagged on Facebook with relation to a post or story about automation and its threat to jobs. The first post was from a man named Dave Shook, a self-described automation engineer working in the oilpatch.