Columns

By Gary Sliworsky
OMAFRA Rep.

By Al Lowe
Contributor

A lot of wildfowl migrate through this area of Canada, several species of geese and many ducks. The smallest ducks we have are the teals.

Auditor General Michael Ferguson tabled a scathing report in Parliament this week that said the Harper Conservatives did not conduct an open and fair selection process for replacing the aging F-18 fighters, that the government did not know how much the F-35 would cost when it was selected as the replacement, and that the Harper Government and the Department of National Defence have deliberately misled parliament and the Canadian people about the cost of the project.

There is some thought today that computers, smart phones, IPods, and IPads have isolated individuals who never seem to have to talk with each other anymore. There are now more cell phones in the world than there have ever been landlines. In some households, the landlines have disappeared and all that remains are the cell phones for each member of the home.

By Walter Wagner
President

Last Tuesday, the McGuinty Government released its 2012 budget - a document that I truly believe contains few benefits for people in the north.

By Melanie Mathieson
Gardening Guru

By Gary Sliworsky
OMAFRA

By Al Lowe
Contributor

Governing is always about choices, and last week the Harper Conservatives chose to balance the budget on the backs of the middle aged and the middle class while ignoring the key challenges facing economic development in Northwestern Ontario.