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I have been on the road for the past two weeks.

By Carolee Hogue
Contributor

By Melanie Mathieson
Gardening Guru

By Jack Elliott
Contributor

I finally found it! The floor of the garage that is. It all started with the approach of the hibernation season.

It was a very bad week for Canada’s veterans. So bad was it that my friend and colleague Peter Stoffer, the MP for Sackville Eastern Shore and New Democrat Veterans Affairs Critic, called it “one of the worst weeks for veterans and their families ever.”

By Al Lowe
Contributor

This past week there has been a great deal of discussion at Queen’s Park about government priorities and acting in the best interest of people across this province. Earlier this week we saw the Progressive Conservatives wise up to the criticism they have been receiving about not working with or positively contributing to the minority government. The PCs have been hearing this message for the past year and a half and it has hampered their political successes, causing them to blow all but one out of seven by-elections the province has had since the last general election.

On Monday families across Canada will celebrate Thanksgiving. By the second Monday of October, most crops are already harvested and are stored. The corn, wheat, oats and barley have been tilled back into the ground.
The last of the squash and pumpkins have been taken in. The onions have been dried to have firm skins. Potatoes have been dug, as have the carrots, parsnips, and turnips. South of us, much of the corn across southern Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois is just beginning to be harvested. Soybeans are still green in many fields.

By Melanie Mathieson
Gardening Guru

By Jack Elliott
Contributor

Giving the finger, flipping the bird, the flying digit… whatever you want to call it has certain protocols that should be followed.