After many months of hard water on our lakes and rivers, things finally are starting to bust loose—and slowly but surely, we’ll all be in boats sooner than later. By the looks of things, we are going to break all kinds of records on ice-out dates for the big lakes […]
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Another summer-like week here in Rainy River District! I had a big list of inside jobs (i.e., income tax) but I found myself not so interested in being inside. So “Roxee” and I pretty much walked around all our fences and replaced staples and wires as needed. I was hoping […]
By Melanie Mathieson
The Gardening Guru
The Gardening Guru
With the unusual warm weather, all of the snow gone, and the lake ice starting to break up, many people are itching to get outside and start gardening. I also share the enthusiasm for the extraordinary weather, but you have to be careful not to get ahead of yourself with […]
The writing tide has gone out and it’s not flowing back in a timely fashion in my neck of the woods this week. Today my “write” mind is as the rusty burn barrel that’s sitting upside down on the south side of the old red barn in my farmyard. There’s […]
I knew Hinderika Sieders the way children know adults. She was Mrs. Sieders to me; I’m not sure I ever knew her first name. I watched her from a distance, from the perspective of being a visitor in her home, a friend of her children. She was the mother of […]
While many New Democrats were focused on our hotly-contested leadership campaign over the weekend, many also were trying to shift their attention to what is sure to be a landmark federal budget presentation tomorrow (March 29). Finance minister Jim Flaherty, who can’t or won’t tell us how much his mega-jails […]
Editor’s note: Marie Snider began writing this column 20 years ago. Here is her first column that appeared in The Newton Kansan on Wednesday, March 18, 1992. “This Side of 60” began syndication in August, 1992. Life on this side of 60 is fun! Oh, I know life isn’t supposed […]
Our family’s first boat was a Admiral Peterborough cedar skiff and every year my father would begin working on it in our backyard. The bottom was covered in fibreglass, as was the stern. It was green. The rest of the boat had a Spar varnish finish. We couldn’t begin work […]
The Far North Act is a poor piece of legislation. It was done without consultation with northerners and when we voiced our concerns, the Liberals rammed it through anyway. Among other things, the Act arbitrarily sets aside massive tracts of land and declares them off-limits to development and imposes decisions […]
A game of “chicken” is sure to play out at Queen’s Park in the days ahead—and hanging in the balance is another provincial election barely five months after Ontarians last went to the polls just before Thanksgiving. The Progressive Conservatives already have given a “thumbs down” to the provincial budget […]
