Our dock at the cabin sits high and water only has flowed over the top once in my lifetime. My father had eyeballed the high water mark to build the dock and reckoned he never would have to worry about putting barrels on it to keep it from floating away […]
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I was thinking of the definition of family the other day, wondering why it seems limited to “a group consisting of parents and children living together in a household; a group related by blood or marriage.” That seems a stark definition to me—lacking the soul and depth that the mere […]
I survived my trip last week to southern Ontario—but barely! My plane was very late leaving Winnipeg and when I arrived in Toronto and rushed to my next flight, I saw my plane backing away from the terminal. You would have thought they could have waited a few more minutes. […]
Pasture is an excellent low-cost means of feeding livestock, but requires proper management of the forage and the livestock. The following is the first of a two-part article on utilizing your pasture from Jack Kyle, grazier specialist, OMAF/MRA: The forage must be managed to optimize growth, and the livestock must […]
Covering the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship the past three summers, the person I’ve chatted with most hasn’t been one of the anglers, one of the event organizers, or even emcees Paul Morrison and Jason Gauthier. It’s been weighmaster Paul Cousineau. It’s probably because of where I’m situated—at the front […]
The 19th-annual Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship took place this past weekend on Rainy Lake and it turned out to be a very special event for my partner, John Peterson, and I. Thanks to a really good Day 3 catch of 20.35 pounds, we were able to win the tournament […]
As the investigation into the Lac-Megantic tragedy continues, I would like to let you know what the New Democratic Party has proposed on rail safety over the years. I think this is important information to consider as we head into the fall sitting of Parliament as rail safety will be […]
Recently, I’ve been thinking back with deep nostalgia to a simpler time and a different place. 1956 in Goshen, Ind. My husband was a student and I had a full-time job in public relations at Goshen College. We lived in the trailer park with other students, and our trailer measured […]
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow will come. But today is “your day!” So why in the world do we waste time regretting yesterday. Of course, we all make mistakes. “If only we had done something different,” we think. Always forgetting that yesterday is gone–permanently gone! And why do we worry about […]
The Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food and Ministry of Rural Affairs have developed a new online tool that helps produce growers understand the regulations and requirements to bring their foods of plant origin to market. Whether they are selling at the farm gate, or to local farmers’ markets or […]
Oh, to be young again. How often do those of us over 50 utter those words when our backs are aching, when our hair is thinning, when our eyesight is dimming, and when our memory is . . . ummm, I can’t remember what I was going to say about […]
This past week, our province’s Ombudsman released his annual report. Established in 1975, the Ombudsman is an independent officer of the legislature whose job is to investigate complaints against government services. Dealing with more than 18,000 complaints a year, our current Ombudsman, Andre Marin, is one of the most respected […]
