Opinion

Courage is a word that is often thrown around too loosely. Athletes are often described as courageous when they make a tough play. Actors somehow get deemed as courageous when they take on a tough role.

The first Hard Knocks Fighting card held in Estevan blew people away. The second certainly did nothing to kill the buzz around the sport in the Energy City.

The Editor: Unfortunately it is necessary that the Bienfait Town Council respond to a letter to the editor submitted to the Estevan Mercury by Bienfait resident and former mayor, Garry Hammett.

He said If you thought there was no such thing as space travel for the common man, you're only partly correct.

Horse power on the farm for most is only a memory, or perhaps something read about in books. So I am always intrigued when I have the opportunity to talk to someone still interested in draft horses.

Did you know that more than 55,000 people die every year from rabies around the world and that dogs are the source of 99% of human rabies deaths? Rabies is an infectious and zoonotic (transferable from animals to humans) disease that affects warm blo

As I write this column, I'm sitting in my dark apartment contemplating the meaning of electricity. And by that I mean I'm wishing that my power would come back on.

Marna's Musings

Who is more ethical: rich people or poor people? The shocking truth is that it's not the super rich. Score one for poor people.

The start of the regular baseball season is still almost a month away and already the biggest story of the spring is about drugs.