I love a bubble bath—a big deep tub filled with water hot enough to almost melt me and with bubbles up around my ears. The combination of bubbles and heat solve many of life’s dilemmas and anxieties. I think this stems back to my aspiration as a six-year-old to become […]
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After a couple of weeks on the road in warm and sunny Florida, I finally made it home last week and back to our winter weather. It’s nice to get home and see all my friends and family, and our weather was actually pretty nice so that wasn’t much of […]
Last year at this time (though, to be honest, it feels like 20 years ago at this point), I had my first-ever experience witnessing the annual exhibition battle between the Muskie boys’ hockey team and the International Falls Broncos. From the duelling chants and the throwing of pizza boxes onto […]
By Gary Sliworsky
Ag rep, Emo
Ag rep, Emo
Social media and smartphone topics have been popular at farm meetings this winter—and for good reason. Many farmers and other agri-businesses are using these online and mobile tools to streamline and improve their communications and business activities. Researchers, OMAFRA specialists, and other organizations that want to get current information out […]
Recognize the name? Maybe not. Try Poplar, Trembling Aspen, Popple, Asp, and White Poplar. These are all common names for the same tree. The scientific name (Populus tremuloides) is the same all over the world. This poplar is one of four which can be found in Northern Ontario. Some of […]
I ended up with 12 calves last week, and they seemed to enjoy the colder weather. Luckily, I ended up making an extra calving pen in the barn since I could see the weather was going to turn and I had a fair number of cows very close. It looks […]
This past week, the staff at the Fort Frances Times went through intensive training on new software.You will not see a great deal of difference in the paper, but the changes were required because the software we were using was becoming very dated. By dated, I’m admitting the software was […]
This past week in Ottawa was a busy one, with continued uncertainty surrounding Harper’s plans to change Old Age Security (OAS), a key vote on the long-gun registry, and a meeting with my fellow New Democrat MPs from Northern Ontario to discuss the new riding redistribution scheme that’s coming to […]
Walter Cronkite spoke to my father every weekday evening with the CBS Evening News. My father sat in his green chair, placed at just the right angle for the television, his legs crossed, right over left, leaving a small V-shaped spot in his chair into which I fit perfectly. I […]
The time slot for this column seems to appear out of nowhere, like the next guy’s electric bumper car in a race around the track at the fair. All of my time is spent trying to figure out what just happened, and then I look at the calendar and it […]
This week I am participating in a “Poverty Challenge,” organized by Making Kenora Home, a group that advocates on behalf of the homeless in Kenora. The purpose of the challenge is to raise awareness of the difficulties of living a balanced and healthy life on social assistance rates, and I […]
Darn that Jennifer Jones. If it wasn’t for her rink sneaking in through the back door in the Manitoba playdowns to make another appearance at this year’s Scotties Tournament of Hearts, which gets underway Saturday afternoon in Red Deer, Alta., this would have been arguably the most wide-open field in […]
