I’m sitting here at my writing desk looking for inspiration in the tiny ball chocolates wrapped in tinfoil that were left over from the annual Easter egg hunt held here almost a month ago. Perhaps I should clarify and ’fess up. The chocolates weren’t exactly “leftovers.” I stashed a few […]
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You certainly could see the grass greening up as the temperature reached double digits on Saturday! I was excited about seeing the lawn–and then thought, oh yeah, that’s the next thing: cutting grass! I still have a few large rocks to move before that first time on the lawn mower. […]
The third stop of the 2016 Walmart FLW Tour took place over the weekend at Beaver Lake, Ark. and everything went pretty good in my boat en route to an 11th-place finish. In what has been, far and away, my best season in four years of fishing this competitive bass-fishing […]
This is a busy weekend coming up and the district should be moving with so many events to take in. There will be lots of reasons to travel up and down the highway on Friday and Saturday. The final touches for the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce’s annual Business & […]
Don Rusnak
Member of Parliament
Thunder Bay-Rainy River
Member of Parliament
Thunder Bay-Rainy River
It has been a very busy couple of weeks for me, both in the riding and on Parliament Hill. On Thursday, April 7, I held an open house to celebrate the grand-opening of my Fort Frances constituency office. I appreciate everyone’s patience as we searched to find the right space […]
My heart has been busy with a bit of longing lately and I’m wondering from where that comes. If I could describe the ache, I would have to say I am homesick, but I’m here in my home so how is that possible? Some years ago, I came upon the […]
More than 50 years ago, U.S. President John F. Kennedy said, “Change is the law of life.” How right he was . . . and still is! In the early 1960s, when Kennedy was president, what amazing changes already had happened in my young life. Growing up in an eastern […]
You never really know how much poop a dog puts out until the snow melts. And when it comes time to clean up, not even my vigorous, dive-into-anything grandchildren want to make that extra five bucks cleaning up dog poop. It seems they’d rather have a week’s worth of extra […]
While it was nice to be home for a couple of weeks, I’m back on the road again this week getting ready for the third FLW Tour stop of the season at Beaver Lake in northwest Arkansas. Beaver Lake has become a staple on the FLW Tour over the years—hosting […]
In 1964, then-Prime Minister Lester Pearson formed a committee to create a new Canadian flag to replace the Red Ensign. The committee eventually selected an 11-point maple leaf centered on a white background between two red bands on either side. There was serious and rancorous debate between the parties—and the […]
The frogs were singing in my pond last week—despite the chilly temperatures and frigid wind. They were singing with their big voices; a whole choir, one trying to outdo the other. “Listen to me,” one croaked. “No, me,” croaked another. It is the official song of spring, even though Mother […]
And so winter hangs on although I’m hearing that we’re supposed to be in double-digit temperatures for daytime highs by week’s end. Won’t that be something! — Well, I ended up sick again last week and missed out on all my big plans. I understand we had a great turnout […]
