It was a coach’s show on radio. It was supposed to last five minutes or so, the precise timeline “a little” flexible because on every Monday to Friday evening during football season, the deejay who followed it never seemed to start on schedule. Thanks to Joe. The coach was Joe […]
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One of the top competitive anglers from Northwest Ontario has been spending some time south of the border this year in an attempt to qualify for the Bassmaster Elite Series. Jamie Bruce, of Kenora, is one of my good friends and he has been having a solid season fishing the […]
Sounds like we are back in the heat wave again. I enjoy it but this heat usually brings on a thunderstorm and though we need the rain it would be better if it didn’t come with all that force. It is dry enough that lightning could potentially cause us some […]
One of the first things my father did after building a bare bones cabin on Turtle Island, was to erect a sixty-foot-tall flagpole that my brother and I helped drag from the bush behind the cabin. Mounted on an equally large base that is just above the average summer waterline, […]
I have a growing library of works by and about Indigenous people. These books have become precious to me, valuable tools for inspiration, for education, for empowerment. Some are old and some are new, but each one has something important to tell me. I will read from them today, on […]
Quite by chance, I stumbled upon a story about a pop-up restaurant in Tokyo, that confesses right in its name that meals sometimes go awry. It is the Restaurant of Mistaken Orders, with one very special quality — all the servers are living with dementia. 37 per cent of the […]
Friday before leaving work we had quite a storm blow in! We ended up getting 22 mm of rain in about 20 minutes! It was crazy. I quickly looked at my camera to see if it was doing anything at home and all I noticed was the wind. My concern […]
What began over three months ago to avoid having a public inquiry to investigate foreign governments interfering in Canadian elections is now back to square one. It is Groundhog Day in Canada. The special rapporteur David Johnston, a former governor general has resigned his position to investigate foreign involvement in […]
The Emo Legion Branch #99 will host its final Beer and Burger this Friday (June 16) beginners at 5 p.m. A meat draw will be held. There will be a country jam featuring old time music starting at 7 p.m. Beer and Burger will start up again in September. There […]
It seems like only a few months back that my late wife, Norma, the Pearl of the Orient and I carried on a running battle to see which of us could come up with the most perverse ways of shocking each other. I think the Pearl managed to run up […]
It was my good fortune to hire Chris Cuthbert for his first major-market sportscasting job, four decades ago in Montreal. He would readily acknowledge not having the classic “big pipes” (nor did his boss) that used to be the pre-requisite for breaking into the broadcast industry. So when you throw […]
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Across northwest Ontario, those of us who enjoy competitive fishing, specifically bass tournament fishing, are lucky to enjoy some great events from July through early October. Many anglers may not realize it, but while the bass season remains open year-round, most waters are catch and release only or limit the […]
