The way that the SIJHL final, not to mention the regular season and “showdown” series, has gone between the Fort Frances Lakers and Wisconsin Wilderness, it sort of seemed destined the title was going to come down to a seventh game. That is exactly what will be taking place tonight […]
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Most of us are accustomed to think of owls as large birds, hunting in the fields or the forest.But there are little ones, too, and some are very small, indeed. The first one is the Boreal Owl, which is just about the same size as a robin. It doesn’t have […]
The announcement that the province was closing the tourism information centres in Fort Frances, Rainy River, and Kenora caught everyone by surprise. In the past 12 months, the province had expanded its budget to promote fishing and hunting in the northwest. The money was targeted at major markets throughout the […]
It’s Monday morning and I have a hell of a lot to write about; and a whole lot of it that I really don’t want to write about, some of it that I do, and some of it that I am compelled to write about. So in lies my dilemma. […]
After the summer workouts, the training camps, the exhibition contests, the regular-season affairs, and the playoff rounds, here we are. This Sunday night in Spooner, the SIJHL season will begin its final chapter as the best-of-seven series to determine this year’s Bill Salonen Cup champ gets underway between the Wisconsin […]
The writing tide has gone out and it’s not flowing back in a timely fashion in my neck of the woods this week. Today my “write” mind is as the rusty burn barrel that’s sitting upside down on the south side of the old red barn in my farmyard. There’s […]
While many New Democrats were focused on our hotly-contested leadership campaign over the weekend, many also were trying to shift their attention to what is sure to be a landmark federal budget presentation tomorrow (March 29). Finance minister Jim Flaherty, who can’t or won’t tell us how much his mega-jails […]
Our family’s first boat was a Admiral Peterborough cedar skiff and every year my father would begin working on it in our backyard. The bottom was covered in fibreglass, as was the stern. It was green. The rest of the boat had a Spar varnish finish. We couldn’t begin work […]
The Far North Act is a poor piece of legislation. It was done without consultation with northerners and when we voiced our concerns, the Liberals rammed it through anyway. Among other things, the Act arbitrarily sets aside massive tracts of land and declares them off-limits to development and imposes decisions […]
In the past, one of the greatest challenges facing elected officials was keeping their constituents up-to-date. Constituents have the right to know how they are being represented and what initiatives their MPP is spearheading. Fortunately, with the rise of technology in recent years, we no longer are limited in the […]
This Saturday (March 24), more than 130,000 NDP members will be voting for a new leader of the Official Opposition and our party. We have a great slate of seven strong candidates, but one stands above all others in my opinion and would make the best prime minister. I will […]
There are two species of cuckoo in Ontario—Black-billed and Yellow-billed. Casual observation shows that they are very much alike, however, since the Yellow-billed is nowhere near most of Northern Ontario, you don’t have to worry about mixing them up. The Black-billed Cuckoo is a fairly plain bird, brown on top […]
