Ask the Money Lady

My son who is in his mid-twenties with two degrees in physics and mathematics, seems to think he can take on the stock market through options trading, so today we are going to talk about this type of investment strategy. Options and forwards are quite a complicated model even though […]

This weather sure should be making us all very thankful! If only there was a way to keep it especially since by the end of the week, I will have a corral full of calves to be weaned. The forecast doesn’t look so promising, but I am holding out with […]

In my final season as a baseball writer, my newspaper — the Montreal Star — was on strike. I was also freelancing for Montreal radio station CJAD, writing scripts for Expos Manager Dick Williams to read after every game, followed by an on-air conversation the next morning. The strike that […]

The final Sunset Country bass tournament of the season took place Saturday on Lake of the Woods with the tenth annual Frank McClymont Memorial tournament. This is a one day tournament that has become very popular in recent years. Part of the reason for the popularity is because tournament organizer […]

As the growing season comes to an end there are still many gardening tasks to carry out before the snow flies. Due to the unpredictable summer conditions we have faced, our lawns have taken a beating this past season, so a little fall preparation will get them up to snuff […]

I am writing this column from Calgary. We are with our two grand daughters, aged three and one, who are celebrating birthdays this week. We began our travels on Thursday in the darkness of the early morning unable to see how the crop harvest was proceeding in the western end […]

The second annual National Truth and Reconciliation Day has passed – September 30th. It was a single day, though every day qualifies, to honour lost children and survivors of residential schools. Events and gatherings were organized in many locales. The simplest way to honour, to share, to show support was […]

His name was David Green, and probably still is. He was the Canadian Football League’s outstanding player and I was going to impart some football wisdom — in my world known as wise and useless media advice — that would serve him well. “David,” I recall saying (approximately), after we’d […]

Moose look shabby in spring because of hair loss in the winter. That’s because moose are the major host of the winter – or moose – tick. Ticks are arachnids, which wait on grasses or shrubs to latch themselves to the moose, just like wood ticks, which wait for you […]

As the bass tournament season winds down across the Sunset Country region, anglers were greeted with another weekend of excellent fall weather for a pair of tournaments that took place. The Whitefish Bay Fall Classic happened on Lake of the Woods in Sioux Narrows, while up north, the Kickin’ B’ass […]