Columns

By Al Lowe
Contributor

By Gary Sliworsky
OMAFRA Rep.

We celebrate Canada Day on Wednesday. Diana Mehta writing for The Canadian Press on Monday may have created a stir in reporting on the Dominion Institute report that finds that Canadians have trouble identifying famous sons and daughters.

The founding Prime Minister Sir John A Macdonald could only be recognized by one in four Canadians even though his portrait is on the Canadian $10 bill.

By Melanie Mathieson
Gardening Guru

By Jack Elliott
Correspondent

By Al Lowe
Contributor

In Northwestern Ontario, full of lakes, steams, ponds and so on, almost everyone must have seen our most common sandpiper. It is the Spotted Sandpiper (Actitus macularia).

By Gary Sliworsky
OMAFRA Rep.

Every once in a while you write a column and it strikes a chord with people. Since last week, several people who have related similar stories about small neighbourhood grocery stores in Fort Frances have stopped me. They all have found memories of the owners who served their neighbours.

OTTAWA – New Democrat Forestry Critic John Rafferty (Thunder Bay – Rainy River) said today that the Conservative government’s $1 billion forestry assistance plan is coming too late to reverse th

By Ruth Brett
LoW W.I.