Indigenous women are taking their rightful place in Canadian politics in ever-growing numbers. In 1980, only two Indigenous women held office as First Nations chiefs across the country, one of whom was Marie-Anne Day Walker-Pelletier. Marie-Anne was chief for thirty-nine consecutive years (1981-2020) of Okanese First Nation, Treaty 4 Territory. […]
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By Grace Petsnick
The Book Stop
The Book Stop
If you read my piece on teaching Shakespeare in high school, you know I have some bones to pick with it. However, I will play my own devil’s advocate here by discussing my favourite play, Hamlet, and confessing that I now wish I had been forced to read it in […]
We all learned a new word from Mark Carney last week when he spoke of Donald Trump’s renaming of Lake Ontario. It was the word hydronyms, which is the naming of bodies of water. “We know that America is changing,” Carney said. “Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national […]
Wow, the beginning of September has arrived. Really, our weather has been pretty incredible. The rain that we have had won’t matter much for our conditions this year, but it should help us out long term. I have managed to keep my cows happy with the little bit of grass […]
The always-enjoyed Seniors Coffee will begin on Sept. 8 and then return Sept. 22. The coffee gathering is from 1-3 p.m. at the Devlin Hall. Come out and enjoy an afternoon of socializing and catching up with other seniors. There will be coffee, tea and home baking served. Legion beer […]
“She must know Rick ‘The Model’ Martel… probably Greg ‘The Hammer’ Valentine, too.” At least that’s what I figured. After all, when my sister would put me in the Boston Crab or the Figure Four Leglock when we were younger, she would apply it with excellence of execution. She had […]
Did you know? According to the Canadian Institute for Health Information, hospitalizations in Canada from injuries caused by electric kick-style scooters (e-scooters) jumped by 32 per cent in the last two years. In addition, recent hospitalization data from 2022-23 and 2023-24 have been a central focus of extensive media coverage […]
I picked up my mail today. I have been excitedly waiting for a parcel to arrive. I opened the mailbox, and there, much to my delight, was a bright orange package, and I knew immediately what it was. Inside was my 2026 Truth and Reconciliation t-shirt. It is indeed a […]
I became handicapped this past weekend. A planned fishing afternoon with my visiting son turned into a disaster when I fell off the dock and landed on my back across rocks and water. I had a huge goose egg on my head, a bleeding elbow and a huge bleeding gash […]
I am disappointed how quickly our days are shortening. You can really feel fall in the mornings now as well. I hope we have a long, enjoyable fall because spring was long and cold and summer was short. I am a bit nervous because after our last drought we had […]
Hydrangeas are widely known and admired for their large, showy blossoms that lend fabulous colour to gardens from mid- to late-summer. Although hydrangeas are native to parts of Asia, every year more and more varieties are developed and released that are suitable to our growing conditions. The names designated to […]
It arrived as equal parts flash flood of liquid metal and a breath of fresh air—as if the sky split to spill the quicksilver while each inhale and exhale was delivered by the exhaust of a stealth bomber. Twenty-five years ago, industrial nu-metal battalion American Head Charge released the 2001 […]
