It seems a long time ago, and yet just yesterday. It was 25 years of my life–the longest block of my working life. And then I retired. But last Thursday, I went to the Prairie View retirees’ Christmas luncheon and the memories all came back. The place was a-buzz as […]
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In what has become a December tradition over the past eight or nine years, some friends and I from Kenora made our annual trip up to Red Lake last week for a late-season moose hunt. We’ve had quite a bit of success over the years—always being able to use our […]
The Ontario Soil & Crop Improvement Association offers free biosecurity workshops for producers. The Biosecurity workshops are a good place to start addressing your on-farm biosecurity program. The workshops have been developed as commodity-specific workshops, in addition to a generic livestock biosecurity workshop. Currently, there are beef, goat and sheep […]
At the end of my fingertips, every day, there is a story. I see, I feel, I think, I write. I could take the next 500 words to expound on what I feel about the media’s obsession with terrorism. I could take the next 510 words to paint a picture […]
It’s hard to believe Christmas is fast-approaching when the weather feels like we should be preparing our planting equipment! In fact, I had to keep taking off clothes while I finished putting up my outdoor lights this weekend. My only complaint is that I’m thinking all my cords and ornaments […]
A few years ago, Kenora angler Jason Tait had a revelation when he looked at the bottom of his boat while fishing and noticed a pile of used soft plastics that were destined for the garbage can. With the excellent bass and walleye fishing we have right across Sunset Country, […]
Former U.S. president Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in his first inaugural address, spoke these words: “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Current U.S. President Barack Obama carried a similar message when he spoke Sunday night from the Oval Office. “Let’s make sure we never forget what makes […]
I coveted my share of toys at this time of year when I was a kid. When the Eaton’s Christmas catalogue arrived in the mail, I crawled into our deep, comfy (a.k.a. worn out) living-room chair and made a mental list of all the things in that catalogue that would […]
In Ontario, “Growing Forward 2” (GF2) offers resources, tools, and cost-share funding assistance to eligible producers to grow profits, expand markets, and manage shared risks. The Ontario Soil and Crop Improvement Association (OSCIA) administers GF2 to producers across Ontario on behalf of the ministry. Producers are encouraged to take advantage of free workshops and […]
Life is full of problems—small problems like a broken fingernail to big problems such as dealing with a major health crisis. And in between are the middle-sized problems, like the one I had to deal with last week. In order to comprehend the scope of my problem, you have to […]
Bob Rae was in Wolfville, N.S. last week, speaking briefly about his new book, “What Happened to Politics,” published by Simon & Schuster Canada. Rae was named the H.T. Reid Lecture Series recipient for 2015 in the company of past recipients with distinguished academic careers. Acadia University’s H.T. Reid Lecture […]
I remember flying into Chicago when I was 16 years old with my father and as the plane began its decent into the airport, we passed through a greenish, yellow zone. It was a visible air quality issue. The yellow cloud was easy to distinguish. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau went […]
