Now that winter finally is starting to bare its teeth, lakes are beginning to freeze up and another open-water fishing season is coming to an end for us here in Sunset Country. After a terrible spring, weather wise, the summer was okay while the fall actually was pretty good despite […]
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It looks like our weather finally is starting to get a little bit more winter-like this week after quite a few nice days over the past month. Earlier in the week, I got out on Lake of the Woods to film my final TV show of the season and we […]
I am Canadian. I’m not A Canadian or THE Canadian. I am Canadian, in the same way I am brown-eyed and right-handed. I am Canadian. I take great pride in this attribute; not in the sense that being Canadian makes me superior to any other, though it certainly makes me […]
The plane was quiet on the trip home from Toronto. The reality was setting in. The adrenalin that coursed through the veins of the district delegates for a day-and-a-half had dissolved. The delegation had made its case to transfer the Crossroute Forest away from Resolute. The two opposition parties, meanwhile, […]
Wow, here we are–November! This year certainly has slipped past (I think it’s because we always were waiting for better weather!) It was nice that Hallowe’en came and went with decent weather for the trick-or-treaters! Unfortunately, poor Marlee ended up missing all the Hallowe’en fun and spent the day in […]
This past week, Hallowe’en week no less, the Conservatives tabled a new monster 479-page omnibus budget bill. While it contains a few treats, the bill also is chock full of the same old tired tricks. It’s hard to complain that every single page of every single bill tabled by this […]
It’s fall again—autumn if you want to wax poetic. And think about it for a minute, what would autumn be without leaves? Oaks, maples, aspens, cottonwoods, green ash trees. Blanketing the countryside with colour. It’s because of autumn leaves that we think nostalgically and longingly of New England, the Ozarks, […]
I’ve just made a gigantic pot of “Harvest Soup,” filled with garden goodness of homegrown vegetables like butternut squash (of which we have enough to solve world hunger), onions, carrots, leeks, and garlic. The chicken stock was brewed on my own stove from the carcasses of happy, organically-fed chickens—chickens who […]
Our final cattle sale of 2014 is now behind us. We sold 1,177 head on Saturday at the Stratton sales barn for a total of $1,613,231.21. Again we saw some great prices and cattle. And we certainly couldn’t have asked for better weather! Thanks to everyone for the support we […]
How much freedom should we relinquish following the two attacks on soldiers in Montreal and Ottawa last week. The House of Commons always has been known as the place where the people could be heard and the people of Canada could watch their elected officials participate in shaping the country. […]
I write this week’s column with great sadness. Our country has suffered a tragedy and a great loss. Let us remember two heroes this week for their selfless sacrifice in the name of our country, our people, and our values. As I’m sure you are aware, there was an attack […]
Across Northwestern Ontario, it’s well-known amongst area anglers that there are stocked trout lakes available to anyone interested in catching these pretty fish. Brook trout, rainbow trout, and splake (a cross between brook and lake trout) are not native to our region, but these stocked populations give anglers a chance […]
