There’s really only one place to start this week’s column. I was as surprised as anyone when I got the word last week about Fort Frances Lakers’ assistant coach, assistant general manager, and director of scouting Grant Perreault having been diagnosed with colon cancer. It’s the rare person in this […]
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Another frosty morning on Monday but I think this is the only way I’ll be able to tackle some straw baling–and plowing work that I still need to do! It will require a fair bit of clothing but I will try to finish these jobs (if you see me off […]
Over the past seven or eight years since I finished university, my fall season has been totally consumed with deer hunting. In 2005 and 2006, our deer population really peaked in Northwestern Ontario. At that time, my interest in deer hunting was very high. I was spending much of my […]
If the prime minister was hoping that his prorogation and subsequent 17-week summer break would put the Senate scandal on the backburner when Parliament returned, he was spectacularly wrong. It is increasingly obvious that Mr. Harper really has no one left to blame but himself for all of this. He […]
This is the time of year to review your cow inventory and identify candidates for culling. Here are some culling tips: Your list of candidates should start with open cows and heifers. Pregnancy checking and culling open cows has shown to return about $30 per cow exposed. There is no […]
For the first 16 years of my life, I lived happily in a 100-year-old, eight-bedroom house on Route 12 in northern New York. A house that lived its first century as a tavern, when taverns were inns that served 19th-century travellers. As a child, I never once questioned why we […]
Shock and awe—that’s the only way I can describe it. The snow that greeted me the other morning gave me a niggling feeling we had waited too long to head south. But I had to make the best of it, so I dug out of the garage the musty old […]
On Sept. 18, the premier announced the creation of a Transit Investment Strategy Advisory Panel. According to the Ontario government’s news release, the purpose of the panel is to recommend “ways to fund public transit across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA)” by meeting “with stakeholders and residents in […]
What do we know about ourselves? Even before we are born, medical records are being created about our well-being. Our earliest pictures are ultrasounds, which excited moms and dads post on Facebook. From scrapes and fractures to colds, sniffles, and tonsils, everything goes into our files. As adults, pregnancies, weight, […]
I’ve been away from the page. I’d love to say it was because I was in the places of my heart, like the Grand Canyon or the magnificent mountain territory of Wyoming, or on a long highway under the wild Montana skies. Nope. Those away destinations remain in my shoebox […]
I don’t suppose many of us can recall the day we took our first steps, the letting go of the coffee table, with our arms raised for balance, our legs slightly stiff, undoubtedly a look of surprise on our face and a feeling of being almost superhuman. It must have […]
NBA Hall-of-Famer Charles Barkley had an abundance of disdain for the concept of athletes being role models. The former great with the Philadelphia 76ers and Phoenix Suns even authored the script and did the voice-over for a Nike commercial in the mid-1990s which said as much. But, as I learned […]
