Columns

The snow sits firmly frozen to the ground. The temperature will not even reach a melting point on Monday. Outdoor Christmas lights have already displaced the Halloween decorations. Stores have begun their change over to the Christmas season.
Retailers have planned special Christmas promotions across the Rainy River District.
More lights will be added to homes across the district in the next few weeks as preparations are made for the holiday season.

This week was an eventful one in Ottawa, but not all of our business there had to do with the Senate.

By Walter Wagner
President

Not even a week until Remembrance Day and we are almost ready.

By Melanie Mathieson
Gardening Guru

By Jack Elliott
Contributor

By Gary Sliworsky
OMAF/MRA Rep.

By Al Lowe
Contributor

Many of us have never been to battle; never seen a comrade fall; never had to make a series of life or death decisions – all in the blink of an eye. In fact, to the majority of the population, the concept of fighting for our freedom or the freedom of others is as surreal as those battlefields in the movies.

My uncle Ron posted a picture of Private Ronard Kleven of the 78th Battalion, Winnipeg Grenadiers taken on November 1918 on Facebook this past week. Ronard was my mother’s father. My grandfather James Alexander whose family had immigrated to Canada at the turn of the 20th Century was a medic in the Great War.
It was my uncle’s way of remembering his father’s commitment to his new country Canada.

If the Prime Minister was hoping that his prorogation and subsequent 17 week summer break would put the Senate scandal on the back burner when parliament returned he was spectacularly wrong.