For three days, my wife and I are living in an assisted living complex as we visit my mother-in-law. It is a beautiful building with a huge dining room. An activities co-ordinator plans group activities daily and the residents are given lots of advance notice. Monday could begin with an […]
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It wasn’t exactly nice weather for bass fishing but it’s a long winter here in Northwestern Ontario so for many of us who enjoy competing in these tournaments, we’re fishing no matter what Mother Nature throws at us to get in all the fishing we can before another season comes […]
Well, I hope all of you who were complaining about the drought and the heat are happy now! Me, not so much! I realize the rain was needed but we didn’t need to have so much at one time and it did not need to drop the temperature so much. […]
I may have mentioned eight or nine or 46 times that my grandsons started school in September; Aiden in junior kindergarten in Ontario and Linden in kindergarten of the regular variety in British Columbia. I have never been a fan of sending babies to school. Two of my daughters had […]
Toronto, July 8, 2019–Today Rob Ford, the premier of Ontario, announced he now will move beyond the council of Toronto to reduce government costs. Having successfully reduced that council by almost 50 percent, Ford now plans to reduce council sizes across Ontario by amalgamating municipal councils into regional governments. Believing […]
This month, students from across Thunder-Bay Rainy River headed back to school. Whether you’re starting junior kindergarten or going into Grade 12, I wish all of you an enjoyable and successful year! Supporting educators and post-secondary institutions, and making Canada’s world-class education system even better, is a priority for this government. […]
For the past several years, the Crow Lake Classic bass tournament has been a fun, smaller event that attracted 20-something teams each year and consisted of mostly local anglers as well as a few out-of-town duos. While the event has been going on for about 15 years, the Hanson family […]
What a weekend! Sun, rain, and some crazy winds to dry things up again. At my house, we had just over one inch of rain but I’ve heard some had as much as two inches. Normally that would keep me from cutting the lawn but with the strong winds and […]
I’m currently in British Columbia helping my grandson transition into kindergarten. My daughter is a single mom and we had the resources for me to fly out to help the glacial move from non-kindergarten to kindergarten. As I drove Linden to school for an hour one day and two hours […]
As the final entry of a three-part series on shellfish, this column will focus on mollusks. If you missed either two of my previous columns on crustaceans (i.e., crab, lobster, prawns, shrimp, crayfish, etc.), e-mail me at dez@chefdez.com and I’ll be more than happy to send them to you. Basically, […]
A recent article in The Guardian has had me questioning how I read and my understanding of what I read. I’ve always enjoyed reading and for several decades on my birthday and at Christmas, my wife would buy me several hard-cover books to read. I eventually succumbed and acquired a […]
Here we go moving right into the middle of September! We always talk about how quickly the month of August disappears but I think the same can be said about September. We have a jam-packed list so the days rush right on by. A good number of farmers are a […]
