Dear editor: Here’s a recipe for a Canadian (Boston) Tea Party: Combine one lb. education cuts, one lb. health care cuts, one lb. firearms regulation, one lb. “Lands for Life” (Crown land usage), one lb. fishing regulations, and a pinch of cancelled spring bear hunt just for taste. No need […]
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Dear editor: I am an owner of a fishing and hunting resort on Rainy Lake in Northwestern Ontario. I have owned this resort for 13 years. When I was 21, I took the initiative to start my own business, and for the last 13 years I have built it to […]
Dear editor: Have you ever experienced writing or phoning a government department and not getting a satisfactory response. We hope to change that. By co-ordinating our efforts, and a few thousand people calling over the phone about the same subject at the same time, leaves an impression that can’t be […]
Florence (Peggy) McFee, 88, of Rainycrest Home for the Aged, 550 Osborne St., Fort Frances, Ont., passed away at La Verendrye General Hospital in Fort Frances on Sunday, Feb. 7, 1999. She was born Florence Isabella Lewis on July 5, 1910 in Hayfield, Man. During the early 1930s, Florence moved […]
Alvin “Basil” Hayes passed away Feb. 5, 1999 in Hope, B.C. He was born in Burriss, Ont. He worked at Camp Robinson, Ont. and Thompson, Man. as an operator of heavy machinery. In 1964, he moved to British Columbia, where he worked as a faller at North Bend. He had […]
Dear editor, We owned and operated Windy Bay Lodge, a bear hunting camp north of Rainy River, from 1978 to 1990. We, too, are dismayed and confused by the cancellation of the spring bear hunt but the hypocrisy and phony outrage of our local MPPs–Howard Hampton and Frank Miclash–cannot be […]
Dear sir: Cancel the spring bear hunt? Big deal–it doesn’t affect me! That was my thought at first as I am not a hunter and own no guns. But I am in retail sales, and I had two truck deals go on hold and possibly cancelled–all because my customers were […]
Through history, different preoccupations have shaped human life. It was agriculture for a thousand years, industrial development for several hundred. The information age dominated for about 70, and now we are entering the bio-economy. Each kind of activity remains with us. But the dominant forces change. What will be next, […]
So far, I’ve never been to England. But when I do go, I know exactly what my first stop will be–Hewstead Abbey. And once at the abbey, I will head straight for an ancient marker and stoop to read the words etched in stone nearly two centuries ago. The occasion […]
Henri Pierre LeMaire, 89, of Rainycrest Home for the Aged, 550 Osborne St., Fort Frances, Ont., passed away at his residence Monday, Feb. 1, 1999. He was born Nov. 13, 1909 in Indonesia. Henri had worked as a boiler engineer in the building industry. He was a veteran of World […]
Caroline McPherson (nee Bzdok), 71, of R.R. #1, Sleeman, Ont., passed away at La Verendrye General Hospital in Fort Frances, Ont. on Monday, Feb. 1, 1999. She was born Jan. 6, 1928 in Little Falls, Mn. Caroline moved to Fort Frances and then to the Rainy River area in 1990. […]
