Columns

By Melanie Mathieson
Gardening Guru

By Gary Sliworsky
OMAFRA Rep.

By Al Lowe
Contributor

As 2010 draws to a close so does the Industry Committee’s examination of Bill C-501. It’s been quite the year for this bill and my staff and I are now shifting gears and developing a game plan to push it forward in 2011. As such, I want to use this week’s column to update you as to where the bill is in the legislative process, some of the challenges it is facing as it moves forward, and what work lies ahead for my staff and I in the New Year.

Some days, when you least expect it, a voice out of the past either calls or emails me. It happened last week when Wendi Stewart emailed me with a request for me to review her columns. Wendi now lives in Chesley, just outside of Owen Sound.
Her parents John and Shirley Stewart and my parents were friends, and I can remember spending a couple of days of Christmas holidays at the Stewart farm on the River Road at sleepovers.
We probably didn’t spend a lot of time with either Wendi or her sister Sherry.

By Melanie Mathieson
Gardening Guru

By Gary Sliworsky
OMAFRA Rep.

By Al Lowe
Contributor

It is not Christmas yet at our home, but it is approaching. The last of the outdoor lights were lit on Sunday. Santa has moved all the toys from his shop to new locations for moms, dads, and grammas to deliver for Christmas.
The season of taste temptations has begun.

“Sign, Sign, everywhere a sign.” Yes, those iconic words were put together 40 years ago in an iconic song by the Five Man Electric Band, but this week those words came to mind again when I read th