Last Wednesday Bill 55, better known as the budget bill, successfully passed third- and final- reading in Queen’s Park, preventing an election. Last week’s column outlined a number of improvements the NDP had successfully pushed for in order to help the budget pass. This week I would like to update […]
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Sometimes a person gets a nostalgic, wistful yearning for a former place and a former time. A place and time when we experienced much happiness. Such a place and time for me is Edmonton, Alberta, in the 1960s. We lived in Edmonton only nine years—a relatively short time in the […]
By Gary Sliworsky Ag rep, Emo The following is part two of an article on determining the amount of forage you have available on pasture for your livestock. •Sample and weigh A more accurate method to calculate the amount of forage in a pasture is to harvest two or three […]
I have a photograph of my late grandmother, Florence Drennan, on the wall facing where I sit and write. The photo was taken in 1929. Grandma is 14 years old and one of eight young girls in wool cloche-style hats trying to be still for the photographer. Some of them […]
I like sports. I can be obsessive in my “watching” and if I had to categorize from favourite down, I’m not sure I could. Instead, I shall just put all my favourites in an alphabetical hat: baseball, curling, golf, show jumping, tennis. That’s a good start anyway. I used to […]
The news probably has been out there for a long time, but I just found that our ear lobes never stop growing. That’s just great—there goes one more part of my body headed south without my consent. Perhaps I could postpone the imminent downward droop with duct tape. Goodness knows […]
June has been a very busy month with meetings most every night (it seems we try to cram all our meetings in this month before we get busy with haying!) I was planning to attend the RRFDC annual meeting in Emo, but it just so happened we had no power […]
By Gary Sliworsky Ag rep, Emo The following is the first of a two-part article on determining the amount of forage you have available on pasture for your livestock. Pasture is a feeding system. Like any feeding system, it is important to know the needs of your livestock and the […]
Last week in Ottawa saw the marathon voting on the massive Conservative budget bill begin and the Nova Scotia NDP government of Darrell Dexter receive some positive reviews from two credit rating agencies. Earlier in the week, New Democrats decided to table hundreds of amendments to the 425-page Conservative “budget” […]
I watch with fascination the TV commercials that show a Ford automobile parallel parking on a street. I remember how many practice hours I spent learning to put my father’s ’65 Chrysler into a tight space. We have seen robot vacuum cleaners. We have played with robot toys and marveled […]
Anglers from across Sunset Country converged on Dryden over the weekend for the Shaw Dryden Walleye Masters tournament on Wabigoon Lake. It was a Father’s Day to remember Sunday for the Dryden duo of Michael and Stephen Cortens as the father and son captured the 23rd edition of the tournament. […]
Last Friday, people across Ontario awoke to unexpected news that we could see a snap election called over the 2012 provincial budget. Many people, myself included, were surprised by this news. As everyone is well aware, our NDP caucus reached a compromise in April that would allow the budget to […]
