In Grade 8, our classroom teacher, Claude Stewart, challenged the class to learn great pieces of poetry. By the end of the year, our class could recite from memory more than 30 different pieces. I can’t remember them all but the piece by John McCrae still rings true in my […]
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This is the week that Remembrance Day falls, and needless to say it will have more meaning this year than others for many people. We all are grateful for the service and sacrifices of our armed forces, security, and police services. They physically protect us and our institutions, and devote […]
It seems as though we have transitioned from fall to winter just like that! These cold nights certainly have tightened things up. I think my plowing days may have come to a complete halt. I’m happy that I have the better areas of the Emo Agricultural Research Station completed but […]
Fifty years is a long time. Between age 14 and age 64, I had a lot of life experiences. But one experience I didn’t have in those 50 years was visiting Lowville Academy. And at my 50th high school class reunion, I couldn’t wait to see the changes in the […]
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 […]
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 […]
