The sun is shining, making it look like a perfect day, but the wind is continuing to blow from the northwest, making it feel like a frigid mid-January day when, in fact, we are nearing the end of February. The talk in the coffee shops now is focusing on when […]
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This winter certainly has been a tough one. Cold and when it’s not cold, we get snow. Be sure to check your roofs! It Temiskaming District, they are having barns collapse frequently. In Thunder Bay, a new dairy barn that the cattle had been in for just three weeks also […]
I don’t often wrestle with the unhealthy affliction of envy. Not being envious certainly has nothing to do with having an honourable disposition. The reasons are simple and straightforward: I didn’t grow up hungry, I was loved and safe at night, and I had clothes to wear and shoes that […]
After several weeks of being on the road, it was nice to return home last week to get back to some sort of routine and see my friends and family. The weather has not greeted me all that well, with a bunch of snow to plow and frigid temperatures again […]
Do we elect governments or toss out governments at the federal level? Since the 1930s, governments have fallen on scandals that have included potential bribery, potential collusion with Russian spies, and misappropriations of federal sums. I remember when the Fort Frances Times acquired its first offset press in the mid-1960s. […]
The highs of competing in sports are a big part of the appeal to why we participate in them. It feels good to win, whether as part of a team or individually. Of course, for every winner, there is always a loser–often many of them. Sometimes pride can be taken […]
I’m hoping everyone enjoyed their Family Day weekend! It was a little on the cool side but the sun certainly shone brightly. I was lucky to have Maddie spend most of the weekend with me. We were fairly busy with calves and she really wanted to try and get up […]
“The best way out is always through.” Robert Frost penned those wise words but for some of us, “through” is not as easy as it sounds. I have a confession and I hope you won’t judge me too harshly, though I have judged myself with merciless vigour for many years. […]
It is surprising how the accumulation of snow is deceiving. Through to Christmas, we had very little snow on the ground. And even through to the last week of January, the depth of the snow was not huge. The deer regularly waltzed through the yard and often bedded down either […]
A friend of mine from Dawson City recently sent me a joke with the headline, “You must be from Nova Scotia if you shovel snow in the rain.” That’s true, more often than not. But I’m not from Nova Scotia. I’m from Northwestern Ontario, where you have to be hardy […]
It was not the start to the Bassmaster Elite Series season that I was hoping for this past weekend at the St. John’s River in Florida. After two days of fishing, I landed myself a 61st-place finish in the 75-angler field. It was a really rough first day, when I […]
The cows are getting closer now to calving so I’ve had to increase my trips to the barn. On Monday, I planned to get another larger area ready so I can put multiple cows in if I don’t have enough room right in the barn. Meanwhile, the three calves that […]
