Opinion

The Editor: War is terrorism, involving violence.

Valentine's Day By Lynne Bell Ah, Valentine's Day....or as a friend of mine prefers to call it: “the New Year's Eve of February.” Valentine's Day may be a loaded occasion for some, but it's persistently popular and undeniably, big business.

Negotiating oil and gas leases is indeed a big responsibility. Across any part of the world, numerous mineral owners are being offered with proposals to lease their mineral interests.

Residents of the Village of Creelman have a tough decision to make, about whether their municipality should continue in its current status as a village, or dissolve and become a “Special Service Area” under the RM of Fillmore.

Wow, that takes some really big body parts of an indelicate nature to be Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre, a former federal Liberal cabinet minister. Huge. About the size of the ball valves used to open up the city’s raw sewage to flow into the St.

Last month our editorial was headlined “Numbers that begin with ‘3.’” The implication then was dealing with a world where oil is priced below $40 per barrel. Writing this on Jan. 19, those numbers now begin “2.

The world is a crazy place and it keeps becoming more like those science fiction movies from when I was little! Last week Britain gave approval for scientists to edit genes of human embryos for research, which means, ultimately, they could manipulate

Score One for the Good Guys: Fighting Child Sexual Abuse By Lynne Bell “I think my life and the lives of many others would have been better had I not been a hockey coach.”-Graham James Well, this has to be the understatement of the year.

Not since our residents engaged in the great garbage pickup debate, have we witnessed such a compelling topic to chew on and chew up in the past few weeks.

The Editor: I was amazed by the letter written by Nathaniel Cole, the NDP candidate for Cannington published in last week’s Mercury. His letter was asking the present Sask.