Bass anglers across North America will have their eyes on South Florida this week as the 2018 FLW Tour season gets underway at Lake Okeechobee starting tomorrow (Jan. 25). This is going to be my fifth time fishing a tournament at the “Big O” since 2012. I have had two […]
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A friend and a mentor passed away this past weekend. As another Master official in Canada said in an e-mail to me, “A whistle has gone silent.” Jim Brow captured my imagination to what competitive swimming was all about. He was my mentor and he coached me as we travelled […]
Here we are in mid-January! The dreaded long winter month already is half over. It seems like it went extra fast for me by spending one week sick and one week away. It still is pretty much Christmas at my place but if things go as planned, I will fix […]
I watched a film a few nights ago, “Suffragette,” released in Great Britain in 2015 and directed by Sarah Gavron, which depicted the women’s suffrage movement in Britain in 1912 and a small group of women who strayed from their previously peaceful attempts to gain the right to vote. The […]
With all of the cold weather that we’ve had over the past few weeks, I don’t think I could have picked a better week to get out of Northwestern Ontario and head south to Florida to get the 2018 FLW Tour started. My good friend from Kenora, Jamie Bruce, jumped […]
Have you ever sat in a restaurant or airport and watched people sitting next to each other texting on their phones. It is something that is becoming more common every day, as new studies confirm. The latest studies have discovered that a group sitting around a table would much rather […]
Air travel makes travellers sick. If my personal health were used in support of this thesis, it would be irrefutably proven. I can’t remember a flight I have taken where I didn’t get sick and my recent all-night marathon from Dawson City was no exception. I was struck down with […]
Recently, I wrote a story about using tip-ups for ice fishing for one of the Sunset Country Travel Association’s websites. It was a story aimed at anglers visiting to our region and how they should consider bringing along a few tip-ups on their ice-fishing trips. Tip-ups basically are an evolution […]
The GPS said in 659 km, turn left off Trans-Canada Highway. You hardly can go wrong travelling from Regina to Calgary on a bitterly cold day just before Christmas. Just as everywhere, CBC Radio was describing how cold it was outside. Having left the Fort a day earlier, Marnie and […]
With 2017 now behind us, I would like to use this opportunity to reflect on the highlights of the past year. As of October, I’ve had the privilege of serving as MP for Thunder Bay-Rainy River for two years. It has been an amazing experience advocating for our region in […]
When most of us think about going on a fishing trip, it usually means stepping out the door, driving to the boat ramp down the road, and heading out for the day. Right across Northwestern Ontario, we are blessed with some many great bodies of water that offer some of […]
Here is hoping everyone had a wonderful Christmas! We did, although it just seemed to fly right on by! I told my boyfriend/partner that I wish I could slow it down and enjoy it a bit longer. He thinks I’m crazy. Maybe it’s because I frantically was trying to get […]
