I got my hair cut last week. I’m well aware that this fact is of little or no importance to you but it got me thinking (as things tend to do). For instance, I always go to my appointments such as the doctor, the dentist, and the hairdresser armed with […]
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The Cloverbelt Local Food Co-op was here presenting how it could allow all of us to access more local food and even other items. I hope some of you were able to attend one of their sessions. If not, it works like this: items that are for sale are listed […]
Don Rusnak
Member of Parliament Thunder Bay-Rainy River
Member of Parliament Thunder Bay-Rainy River
Oct. 19 marked one full year that I have had the honour and privilege of representing the people of Thunder Bay-Rainy River in Parliament. I am proud of the “Real Change” that this government has made in its first year. With the introduction of a better-targeted child benefit, about 300,000 […]
What is hairy, unattractive, and available in almost every major grocery store’s produce section? No, it’s not an unshaven produce manager with “bed head.” They are coconuts. Most consumers tend to buy coconuts dried or canned instead of fresh. After all, who wouldn’t be somewhat afraid of this intimidating, seemingly […]
It was exactly two years ago this week that my pal, Mike Reid, and I spent a day out on Lake of the Woods shooting a “Fishing with Gussy” episode for musky. We fished hard all day and while we had a few follows, hooked a couple of muskies, and […]
Last week seems like just a blur. Our cereal performance data was due Thursday. Although I knew we were cutting things pretty tight, it all went bad when I went to enter the numbers and discovered our 1000 kernel weight machine was giving us false readings. There was no way […]
My wife and I were in Washington, D.C. for the past several days. In the U.S. capital, you might expect the hotbed of politics to be alive with lawn signs and television commercials promoting presidential and congressional candidates. You would be wrong. On Monday afternoon, we visited the “Nuseum” that […]
I had a friend visit me for a couple of weeks recently. She is the kind of friend who fits right in; who doesn’t alter a space in which she is in but rather enhances it. The best part is she has a serious helping of silly ingrained in her […]
Every year around this time, I usually write a column about hunting—and make mention of the great grouse hunting we have right across Sunset Country. We’re now a good way through the 2016 season and I’m going to say that this year has been one of the best I can […]
Last week in Times, we ran a story about a labour shortage across Rainy River District. Then in Monday’s Daily Bulletin, we reprinted an article from 1936 about employment in the bush of the district. More than 800 men had appeared to work in the logging camps. Between 1936 and […]
Thanksgiving has passed. I ate enough turkey and stuffing and fixings to sink the ship a few times. The pumpkin pie was exceptional, if I’m allowed to say so; the pumpkin grown in my own garden, which somehow makes it more noteworthy, almost noble. If Rod Stewart is knight-worthy so […]
Though it was a damp morning here in Rainy River District on Monday, we sure cannot complain about the temperatures! It seems odd not to be dressing up in full outdoor gear. I even had to cut my grass again over the weekend—amazing! And my flowers are still blooming. I […]
