The Bufflehead is a very small duck, with the males weighing a pound and females still smaller. Many of you hunters will know these as “butterballs.” This is because, in the fall, they store up a large amount of fat for use during the long migration south. The male bird […]
Columnists
By Linda Wiens
Quetico Centre
Quetico Centre
Construction of the new regional hospital is proceeding energetically. It will be big, beautiful, and as state-of-the-art as our public and private purses allow. Actually, I hope even a little more so. Now explorations are underway about whether we should have a northern medical school, and whether we should have […]
Mike Baranowski
The Way It Is
The Way It Is
Maybe, just maybe, I’ll change over to musky tournaments now that the survival rate is almost guaranteed 100 percent. A customer of mine, Jim Groves, asked me to be his partner at a musky tournament at Cass Lake, Mn. But knowing the survival rate was low, I refused his invitation. […]
“Remember, there’s no such thing as more time,” the seminar leader said in her most emphatic tone. It was a seminar on public presentations, given by a leader with the best of skills in that area. Among other things, she underscored that if you’ve been asked to speak for 15 […]
By Linda Wiens
Quetico Centre
Quetico Centre
To what economic class do you belong? Tick one: Before you read on, do it, really. Mark where you think you fit. Social status used to be linked to income. How much one earned or owned was related to where and in what type of dwelling one lived, the amount […]
Sam Anderson
Outdoors Pro-Mo
Outdoors Pro-Mo
As the fall turnover starts, most anglers head for the typical shoreline to fish points that have rock rubble extending out to deeper water. Fishing success during and immediately following the turnover is generally poor because fish need time to adjust to their new environment. For that reason, I tend […]
I knew Nelson only as a young boy, and then not very well. But that was 25 years ago. Now he had arrived at our house again–in a letter sent by his lawyer father. Today, Nelson is a young medical student in British Columbia. He was on call in his […]
As a part-time firefighter for more than 13 years, I have responded to many other types of emergencies, including motor vehicle accidents. The number one cause of accidental deaths in Canada is motor vehicle accidents. Trips and falls are second. Wearing a seat belt in Ontario is the law! Yet […]
By Sam Anderson
Outdoors Pro-Mo
Outdoors Pro-Mo
The challenge facing any angler today is not so much deciding which type of cover to fish, but rather, which type of line to use. Regular monofilament with stretch? Braided line without stretch? A fusion line with a little stretch but thinner diameter? Maybe even a combination, such as a […]
The S.A.F.E. Baby program (Smoke Alarm For Every Baby) is over 20 months old here and to date, more than 500 smoke alarms have been distributed to the parents of each baby born in the district.The program is made possible and funded by Gillons’ Insurance Brokers Ltd., Holmlund Financial, and […]
Many people have noticed an increase in the number of large, black birds on our northern lakes in the past few years. They are cormorants, or to be more precise, Double Crested Cormorants (Phalacrocrax auritus). Old-timers tell us that they used to be very numerous here years ago, and then […]
As a citizen, do you recognize your local fire department as a partner in community services? Your fire department, whether full-time or volunteer, has an important function within your community.The fire department performs fire suppression and life saving functions, and responds to many other challenging emergencies such as motor vehicles […]
