Columns

By Al Lowe
Contributor

This week was a busy which saw me host a pair of town hall meetings on veterans’ affairs in Thunder Bay and Fort Frances as the NDP began our push for public consultations on the so-called “Fair E

By Melanie Mathieson
Gardening Guru

By Jack Elliott
Contributor

Fashion sense or good sense

By Gary Sliworsky
OMAF/MRA Rep.

By Al Lowe
Contributor

This week was a very busy one in Ottawa during which the Harper government presented another 400-plus page monster budget bill that does nothing to create jobs or make life affordable in Northwestern Ontario, and that saw me take the issue of propane price gouging to the floor of the House of Commons.

The garden seeds are in the stores. So to are the starter kits for flowers, tomatoes and other plants that will be transplanted later this year. The days are growing longer and there still is light after six in the evening. I can now almost see daylight as I head to the office shortly before seven in the morning. In fact this week we will almost see melting temperatures.
Spring is arriving, while winter keeps kicking and fighting to stick around.

By Walter Wagner
President

There will be an executive meeting this week, on Thursday, Feb. 13 at 7 p.m. and on Saturday February 15 we are off to our Zone meeting in Fort Frances.

By Melanie Mathieson
Gardening Guru