Opinion

It was early morning several years ago when the double ring on my office phone indicated someone in the building needed to talk to me. It was a co-worker who asked if I could come to her office and assist her with something.

In a spring when a record Canadian crop seems landlocked by a struggling grain handling system ill-equipped to deliver a huge crop to port, and generally softer farm commodity prices, other issues tend to get lost in the world of agriculture.

If there's one thing we've learned here at the Mercury , it's that you can never guess what will get people fired up. We have printed articles, which we thought people would have a strong reaction to, and there wasn't a peep.

There have been recent discussions about the possibility of making a big change to the Canadian Football League rules regarding pass interference. Of course, the solution to the wrong calls is wait for it more video reviews.

My bracket has been a bust, but there's something so infectious about March Madness that I don't care if I no longer have a shot at the big money. The brief NCAA Division I hoops tournament is something special each year.

Tanya's Tales

As the month of March was coming to a close our elementary-aged imaginations would begin concocting what type of April Fool's Day prank we could perpetrate on our teacher.

I do my very best to write about different topics each week, but I have once again been dragged back into volleyball.

We exist today in a world where when something goes wrong the thing we do is point the finger at someone else.

Billy Joel was somewhat mistaken when he penned the lyrics suggesting that "only the good die young." Estevan said goodbye to a couple of its Grand Dames who were not young, but definitely good people.