Last week’s Times had 59 job vacancies being advertised. The newspaper averages more than 40 openings every week. At one time, there was a surplus of people and any job opening had 50 or 60 applicants. Not so now. Life has changed here in Rainy River District. Almost every restaurant […]
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Narrativity is a word I wasn’t familiar with, or rather I hadn’t heard it used the way I heard it used last week on CBC Radio. In fact, my spellcheck doesn’t care for the word and wants me to use some other one while providing me with no alternatives. In […]
Over the past few months, there have been some sweeping changes in the professional bass fishing landscape. For the past couple of decades, the FLW Tour and the Bassmaster Elite Series have been the premier high-end bass tournament circuits. But that all changed in September when Major League Fishing announced […]
November 11, 11 a.m., 1918 marked the silencing of guns in France as an armistice was reached. The war to end all wars was over. This Sunday, our community will meet at the cenotaph to mark the 100th anniversary of that moment. From Canada, a nation of seven million people, […]
As you may remember, I am a fan of lists–lists for almost everything. One of my favourite comedians, Demetri Martin, says the only thing on a magician’s list is “ta-da.” I find that hilarious but perhaps you have to love lists to get the humour. I’ve added a slightly different […]
As the small lakes across Northwestern Ontario freeze over this week, most of the regular bass and walleye anglers have packed their gear away for another season. Musky anglers are a different breed, however, many of which are known to break ice with their boats to get in those last […]
I don’t think I’ve ever attended a writers’ event, either as a spectator or as a participant, that the question isn’t posed, “Who are you reading these days?” I never seem to have an answer at the ready. After all, no one asks me who I am wearing–and that’s a […]
All the leaves have almost fallen. Nothing but the black skeleton of the branches remain in a lifeless pose. It is a bleak season where all the colours and shades of flowers and shrubbery have disappeared, leaving only blackness and the grey shadows of the coming winter season. The last […]
Brainerd, Mn. is a small city, a little bit bigger than Fort Frances and Kenora, but it is one of the epicenters for the fishing community in North America. Back in the 1970s, Al and Ron Lindner, two brothers from Chicago, moved to Brainerd because of its proximity to countless […]
Has divisive politics entered into our municipal and school board elections? Until Monday morning, when I was confronted by a posting from a mother questioning the bullying on Facebook of a school board candidate, I would have said that it was impossible. The posting by the mother has shaken me. […]
While hunting seasons for most birds and animals have been open for weeks already, for people like me who like to get in every bit of fishing we can, the hunting season only is starting to ramp up now that the fishing has begun to cool down. Over the past […]
Another cattle sale is behind us and I honestly can say it was a tough weekend. It seemed whatever could go wrong did–maybe even times two! I finally crawled into my bed Sunday after 4 a.m. and I was still feeling it by Monday. Luckily, everything was fixed, solved, and […]
