Opinion

I recently celebrated my birthday (29 again… that’s somewhere between “I was 29 quite a while ago and I'm not telling you my age anymore.”) I am not sure why people don't like birthdays. Mine was fantastic.

Does free will exist? It’s a question I hadn’t spent a lot of time on, but have been thinking about for the last week now. I was visiting with friends and this question developed. Quickly I answered, “Yes.

Treasure summer: Why year-round school shouldn't fly in Canada by Lynne Bell The traditional school calendar is rooted in, well... tradition.

The Editor, Energy has become the most important commodity of our industrial age so why are our energy ambitions not based on promoting and using free energy, endless energy renewed every day, every second, energy that carries no pollution, energy th

The tourist season in the Energy City isn’t a make-it or break-it time for Estevan, but there are far too many opportunities in the summer months for us to ignore the benefits that culture, recreation and leisure can provide to the local economy.

Editor’s note: this letter is a reply to a letter published in the Mercury on April 27by Vicky O’Dell, federal NDP candidate for Souris-Moose Mountain The Editor, I would like to commend the Federal NDP Candidate, Vicky O’Dell, for her bravery in sha

The opposition NDP has been asking the governing Saskatchewan Party where all the money has gone from the good fiscal times we’ve had in recent years.

I receive a lot of input from family and friends who are in the farming community about just how things are run in rural Saskatchewan. I was raised in Estevan but had (and still do) have acquaintances in the "field" that like to keep me "informed".

Well after literally hours of volleyball this winter, we’re finally finished.

Capital punishment and the common good? By Lynne Bell Once again, I am to write about and defend one of those uncomfortable topics which I've been lucky enough to escape thus far in my life.