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Wednesday, December 11, 2024

I don't remember seeing a sundog this low to the horizon. I took these pictures from my deck about 9 a.m. The temperature at the time was -27C ( -18F ), having risen a few degrees from the overnight low of -31C ( -24F )...

Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Hazel Gushuliak, Rowan Tompkins and Noah Tompkins, Ember Jardine, and Anderson Maki answer this week's question.

Wednesday, December 11, 2024

I had two wonderful evenings back home in Kenora and Dryden at the Kinsmen Santa Claus Parades. Thank you to the Kinsmen and all the volunteers that make these parades possible every year...

Wednesday, December 4, 2024

Gabriella McClelland, Sadie Huizinga, Ezra Beardy and Jesiah Beardy, and Aurora Zatorsky answer this week's question.

Wednesday, December 4, 2024

The chairs and table of the deck are resting in November after a summertime of glorious delights....

Wednesday, December 4, 2024

The ER in Sioux Lookout is broken. If you've ever had the misfortune of visiting the Meno Ya Win Health Centre's emergency room, you will know this all too well...

Wednesday, December 4, 2024

After nine years of this NDP-Liberal government, life has never been so expensive...

Thursday, November 28, 2024

After 9 years of this NDP-Liberal government, the former employment minister, Randy Boissonnault, has now joined the Prime Minister and many of his fellow ministers with his own ethics scandal...

Thursday, November 28, 2024

When I went to the hardware store last week I had no intention of buying another barbeque. Honestly, I went there only to get a couple mouse traps...

Wednesday, November 20, 2024

I was honoured to lay a wreath at the Remembrance Day ceremony in Dryden. We mourn the fallen and pay our respects to every member of the Canadian Armed Forces for the sacrifices they have made. Lest we forget...

Wednesday, November 20, 2024

My friend, Otter, one of the original members of The Loyal Order of the Whiskeyjack sent some pictures that he took at this year's Great Canadian Whiskeyjack Calling Contest a couple weeks ago...

Thursday, November 14, 2024

After nine years of this NDP-Liberal government, life has never been more expensive for Canadians. Recently, Food Banks Canada released new data showing that record numbers of Canadians are struggling to keep their heads above water...

Thursday, November 14, 2024

Here are some little salmon cakes I'm making for supper tonight. I was going to describe them as similar to crab cakes, but they are not the least bit similar to crab cakes when I think about it (except they are both smallish and kind of round)...

Thursday, November 7, 2024

My friend Denny and I went shopping for a purse last week in Minneapolis. The two of us have been fine friends since our days as cooks in a Minneapolis Perkins restaurant more than a half century ago...

Thursday, November 7, 2024

As physicians working in this Region, we wish to raise our voices and encourage greater dialogue and awareness about current events in Israel, Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon...

Thursday, November 7, 2024

Common Sense Conservatives recently announced that we will axe the GST on new homes sold for under $1 million if we form the next government...

Wednesday, October 30, 2024

After nine years, there is yet more proof that the NDP-Liberal government is not worth the crime...

Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Early morning is a delight every day at camp. I love the two hours between pitch black sky and sunrise when the day comes awake...

Wednesday, October 23, 2024

I appreciated the opportunity to speak with students at Beaver Brae Secondary School in Kenora about the democratic process and my role as a Member of Parliament...

Wednesday, October 23, 2024

I thought, this afternoon, of that old boyhood shout out at the end of a dusky evening game of hide and go seek in 1950s Vermont...

Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Winnipeg Jets alumni were recently in Kenora for a number of community events. They took the ice with teams from Wauzhushk Onigum and faced off against Kenora's high school alumni in support of Triple P.L.A.Y...

Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Now, this is more like it. When we arrived at camp yesterday afternoon, less than an hour after cruising into our driveway at home, the chickadees met our boat at the dock...

Wednesday, October 9, 2024

I was honoured to take part in Grand Council Treaty 3's events on National Day for Truth and Reconciliation to honour and commemorate the children who never made it home and the survivors of residential schools...

Wednesday, October 9, 2024

Hobo, a chickadee without a tail, has been flitting in and out of my feeder for the past couple days...

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