Editorial / Opinion
Sioux Lookout voters will soon choose six councillors-at-large and one mayor to represent them on the next municipal council...
Well, it's that time again when we look forward to all the fall and Christmas activities in Sioux Lookout...
Over the past year and a half, Canadians have been promised change and better times, all the while facing high grocery bills, rising housing costs and great uncertainty about their jobs and livelihoods...
I found a sailboat in the woods today, and although I searched the sides and the stern, I couldn't find a name. I'll bet years ago she was a beauty with a pretty name like Sarah, or Miss Bette. Maybe Girl From Ipanema...
Texas and Ontario do not agree on much when it comes to energy policy.
But on data centres, Texas is showing something Ontario's government seems unwilling to show: caution....
As I cleared brush with my chainsaw during the weekend I found myself thinking, as I admired my work, that I was really giving 'er tar. Getting lots done...
On Friday, Premier Doug Ford penned an open letter calling on Prime Minister Carney to cut the federal tax on gasoline...
My friend Don Sanders died about 25 years ago. He was a businessman of integrity and huge influence in Sioux Lookout, as well as a man of marvelous mischief and humor. I admired him immensely...
For years, we've heard talk about the importance of Highway 17 in northwestern Ontario. We've heard it described as a critical east-west corridor for trade and transport, an economic lifeline, and an essential section of the Trans-Canada Highway...
They fly toward danger while everyone else runs in the opposite direction.
They spend weeks sleeping in tents, breathing smoke, hauling heavy gear through unforgiving bush, and standing between walls of flame and the communities...
I guess at one time or another everybody has been wrenched awake from a pleasant, sunny mid-afternoon snooze in their zero-gravity chair by a patio table, nine-foot umbrella, cell phone, camera, binoculars, half drank vodka/tonic, pair of glasses...
Silliness isn't always funny, but sometimes you have to laugh anyway.
I chuckled last week when I received an envelope in the mail addressed to me at 107 Dick MacKenzie Blvd here in Sioux Lookout...
This week, I used my time in Parliament to speak once again on the state of the Trans-Canada Highway in our region...
I would like to express my sincere appreciation for the Sioux Hudson Entertainment Series and, in particular, for concerts like the one we had on Tuesday, April 14, the John Wort Hannam Trio...
Two Dryden residents are facing drug charges following a traffic stop on a vehicle in Sioux Lookout...
This week, Conservatives put forward a clear and concise plan --- suspend all federal fuel taxes until the end of the year to give Canadians much needed relief at the pump...
If this old chair could talk...
What a wonderful spring day in Sioux Lookout!...
I drive a pickup truck. The side mirrors stick out a fair distance from the truck body...
In Northern Ontario, highways are lifelines. Corridors like Highway 11 and 17 form the backbone of the Trans-Canada route through the North, linking remote communities, First Nations, resource industries, and regional economies to the rest of the country
Partridge in a crab apple tree...
Mary has been sick for the last five days, and I joined her adventure three days ago. Neither of us has been out of bed for more than a few minutes at a time...
Prime Minister Mark Carney promised we'd have the fastest growing economy in the G7. But after a year in office, the results are the exact opposite...
A late setting moon during the half hour before sunrise is breath taking at this time of year. This is what I saw at quarter after 6 this morning from my deck in town...