Peggy Revell Jesse Phillips, Dakota Medicine, and Jevonte Phillips displayed the signs they carried during Sunday’s march at Rainy River First Nations to show support for ongoing efforts throughout that community to stop substance abuse. This week marks both National Addictions Awareness Week as well as the Ontario-wide Drug Awareness […]
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Dan Falloon A Dryden defender got up close and personal with Muskie senior hoopster Chelsea Hill during the NorWOSSA final here last Wednesday. Dryden eked out a 38-36 victory to deny the black-and-gold the league crown after going 7-1 during regular season. Hill led all Muskie scorers with 11 points […]
This week in Ottawa promises to be a very important one—and one that I’ve been looking forward since the evening of Wednesday, May 26. On that evening, my private member’s bill (C-501) survived its first test in the House of Commons with flying colours, passing by a margin of 144-111. […]
It is now clear Canada’s next foreign military mission will be training Afghanistan’s military and police. But we also will be continuing our role in helping the population reconstruct a nation. It was part of Canada’s original mandate that morphed into a full-fledged battle group based in Kandahar. The battle […]
We’ve had a long, glorious fall. The leaves have never been this pretty in the 44 years we’ve lived on the prairie. I love to drive up our winding street to see the bright oranges, reds, and yellows. And the sugar maple tree we planted 25 years ago in memory […]
By Melanie Mathieson The Gardening Guru The Christmas cactus makes a great holiday plant gift, and you also may see this variety on sale at other holiday times of the year, like Easter and Mother’s Day. Although there really is a variety called the Christmas cactus and one called the […]
A touch of snow over the weekend has brightened up our dark mornings and evenings! I heard lots of people explaining how happy they were to see the snow. Well, I must be getting old because I don’t find it all that exciting anymore. More clothes and boots to put […]
I’ll admit, I’m not the biggest NBA fan as I don’t usually start watching games until the playoffs, but a really interesting storyline so far this season has been the relative struggles of the Miami Heat. When the Heat first brought in LeBron James and Chris Bosh to play alongside […]
Those of us who live here in Sunset Country are fortunate because of the unique bass regulations in this part of the province. Our season is open year-round, allowing those of us who love to catch these scrappy critters to fish for them from the time the ice goes out […]
By Gary Sliworsky Ag rep, Emo In response to heightened consumer awareness about food safety, the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs has created a new user-friendly CD to make food safety practices easier for you. The interactive iGAP CD contains the entire Advantage Good Agricultural Practices manual, […]
If you are interested in birds at all, you will know about the “upside down” birds of our northern woods. No other birds in this area run down trees head first. We have two species of these curious little birds. The larger of the two is the white-breasted nuthatch (Sitta […]
It took my breath away–just as I was about to take the first bite of my morning cereal, there, out the front windows, stood two jostling, bristle-haired bucks. I went to the back of the cabin to corral my husband out of bed for the anticipated fury of a showdown. […]
