One thing about where we live in Sunset Country is if you like to spend time in the outdoors, there isn’t a much better place to be. In fact, you couldn’t pay me to live anywhere else. I just love everything about Lake of the Woods and Rainy Lake too […]
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The clock is ticking on the province’s looming showdown with teachers and it remains anyone’s guess as to whether it plays out with an imposed contract, a court challenge potentially costing taxpayers millions, or perhaps even an election over the issue. The cash-strapped McGuinty Liberals have little choice in their […]
I have a confession to make. I really like a ham-and-cheese omelet. I also enjoy my “Egg McMuffin,” my Tim Horton sausage-and-egg breakfast sandwich, and Subway’s sausage-and-egg breakfast meal on flat bread. One of my treats at the cabin on the weekend is a big breakfast of bacon, eggs, and […]
I’m staring at a blank screen. My mind is empty and the clock is ticking. This scenario doesn’t happen to me very often when it’s time to write my column. It means my life is sailing along on with calm winds at my back and my slate is relatively clean. […]
Well, another Emo Fair has come and gone! And what a beautiful weekend it was. We did have a few brief showers Saturday afternoon, but it just helped to keep the dust down. Meanwhile, temperatures were near perfect, which seems to make the cattle perform much better. This year we […]
Over the past couple of weeks, a great deal has been said about the province potentially introducing back-to-work legislation to force an end to a labour dispute with most of Ontario’s teachers. In the past, back-to-work legislation was a last-ditch effort used by governments to bring an end to a […]
When last did you pick up a pen and find just the perfect paper on which to write your thoughts, your worries, your questions; and then put that paper in an envelope, affix a stamp, and drop the envelope in one of those red boxes that say Canada Post? It’s […]
One thing about where we live in Sunset Country is if you like to spend time in the outdoors, there isn’t a much better place to be. In fact, you couldn’t pay me to live anywhere else. I just love everything about Lake of the Woods and Rainy Lake too […]
Unless you’ve been living somewhere that has no possible way of receiving communication from the outside world for the last couple of weeks, you already are quite familiar with the latest goings-on in the NHL’s collective bargaining negotiations. As the days drag on, and neither the league nor the NHLPA […]
Phil Whatley Dear editor: A Christian minister who disregards the Bible, like a physician who disregards medical evidence or an engineer who disregards the laws of physics, all cut off the branch on which they sit. Yours truly, Phil Whatley Emo, Ont.
Michael Lewis Dear editor: The minister of education has been issuing press releases and uttering threats—that allude to her government introducing legislation to avoid “labour disruption” this fall—so that public school boards, and their respective unions, would have to adopt the agreement reached with the provincial Catholic teachers’ association. School […]
The Abraham Gerber family Dear editor: This letter is a response to the article, “Churches slowly blessing same-sex unions,” in the Aug. 15 edition of the Fort Frances Times. It might be true that Knox United Church accepts homosexuality, but other churches do not agree with its decision. The Bible […]
