It has been two weeks since I wrote my last column. In the meantime, Marnie and I travelled to our son Adam’s wedding to Meesun Shin in Seoul, South Korea. Seoul proper is a city of 10 million people and the region has some 25 million people all within 100 […]
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After a brief stint at home where I got to spoil myself and spend a couple of days fishing for bass around Sunset Country I am back on the road in the U.S. this week, albeit a lot closer to home than I usually am. The sixth stop of the […]
Many are talking about needing a nice warm rain and how our mornings are still cool. Both are likely true, but I will take dry, cool days over wet anytime. It will happen–it always does. It is looking like tomorrow we will see some rain and the grass will grow […]
Mother’s Day has just passed and I now have a new self-propelled, lightweight, battery-powered lawnmower in my shed in honour of being a mother. I can’t wait to give it a go when the rain stops. I look forward to not dragging and pushing the old Toro around, whose air […]
Across Northwestern Ontario, we are fortunate to have the great lake trout fishing opportunities that we do. They are a fragile fish that require deep, clear, and cold water to survive–and we have a bunch of it. While lake trout spend much of the summer in deep water, spring is […]
I think we all will agree our weather has been very pleasant lately. Everyone is rushing around with their gardens and lawns, and, of course, you will see the farmers getting out on their land by spreading fertilizer, doing fencing, and getting some seed in the ground. It is a […]
To say I find the number of those living on the street in this country, in any country, alarming and upsetting seems an obvious statement to make and somewhat trite. I heard someone in political authority once say there is no solution to poverty; that poverty begets poverty. I think […]
The fifth stop of the 2017 FLW Tour took place last week at Beaver Lake, Ark. and it seems like I officially have got myself a little slump going. After a solid Day 1 that landed me in 36th place, my Day 2 limit was much lighter and I left […]
I recently held a roundtable in Thunder Bay with veterans and Legion members to discuss some of the issues they are facing in our riding. It was an extremely productive meeting, and I was glad to see a strong presence of several generations of service men and women working together. […]
Ontario is at a tipping point. It’s getting more and more difficult to build a good life and get ahead here. Costs are up, wages are flat, and the services we count on, like health care and education, are being squeezed or cut. This is especially the case in the […]
I attended a meeting recently with a group of individuals who are going to create a community arts centre in Kentville, N.S., close to where I live. I use the words “going to” because they are determined and don’t want to use tentative language such as “planning to” or “hoping […]
Outside of Northwestern Ontario, if you asked me which lake I could say I’ve spent the most time fishing on over the past several years, it probably would be Beaver Lake in northwest Arkansas. This is my fifth season fishing the FLW Tour and Beaver Lake has been an annual […]
