Editorial / Opinion
As the holiday season approaches, I'd like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. I'm looking forward to spending some time back home with family, and I hope everyone across the region is able to spend quality time with their loved ones...
Colby Lawrance, Wyatt Zatorsky and Aurora Zatorsky, Naomi Torrez and Archer Alvaran, and Edwin Salo answer this week's question.
A few friends have asked for my potato cupcake recipe. I'm embarrassed to tell you that I can't find it and can't remember where I saw it. I will do my best to reconstruct my process and come up with a pretty good mix that you can tweak at will...
I had the pleasure of welcoming Chief Merle Loon, Councillor Brenda Fox, and representatives from Mishkeegogamang First Nation to Ottawa. We talked about the importance of bringing economic certainty to northern Ontario...
Nora Maki and Anderson Maki, Fisher Stevens and Fawn Stevens, Colton Gatto, and Everett Mandryk and Bronson Mandryk answer this week's question.
I don't remember seeing a sundog this low to the horizon. I took these pictures from my deck about 9 a.m. The temperature at the time was -27C ( -18F ), having risen a few degrees from the overnight low of -31C ( -24F )...
The House of Commons was focused on a Conservative motion calling on the Senate to immediately pass Conservative Bill C-234, which has already passed the House of Commons and is awaiting approval in the Senate...
Linda Bancroft, Lynne Schofield, Bradley Grenier, and Luis Espana answer this week's question.
It was great to be in Kenora and Dryden to attend the Santa Claus parades. It's always a pleasure to see such strong community and Christmas spirit and so many people out to celebrate the season...
Today Andy Ward and I had lunch together in Oxford, North Carolina. We were fifth grade classmates in 1954, in Danville, Vermont...
Saturday night my Facebook chat box popped open with a hello from Cousin Lee down in Michigan. What a thrill! We have been lifelong friends of the first order, tough MacKenzie boys whenever we got together...
I was in Sault Ste. Marie to attend the Northern Ontario Tourism Summit, hosted by Nature and Outdoor Tourism Ontario and Destination Northern Ontario...
Forrest Woodrow, Kate Moir, Lenni Bartlett, and Sarah Moir, Sam Holmes, and Colton Mosher answer this week's question.
Tom Chisel, Tim Yewchyn and daughter Charli Yewchyn, Andrea Cospito, and Harpreet Kaur answer this week's question.
My brother Chris and I drank a special toast to Ma.
We were interrupted Thursday night as we relaxed at the patio table in Chris' backyard, enjoying some brotherly reminiscences and good-natured kibitzing after my arrival at his home in Ohio...
It was an honour to lay a wreath at the Remembrance Day ceremony in Kenora to remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice to protect the freedoms we enjoy today....
Colby Defoort, Waylon McKay, Joyce Timpson and Grant Power answer this week's question.
I have a proposal for the Council of Sioux Lookout to recognize Kapatagan, Lanao del Norte, as a sister town due to the influence of Filipino culture in our town...
It was a pleasure to welcome Cynthia Palermo, a teacher at Dryden High School, to Ottawa. She joins 84 other teachers from across Canada to attend the Library of Parliament's Teachers Institute on Canadian Parliamentary Democracy...
My friend Kirk Drew blessed me with a special bottle of Shackleton scotch, distilled from the reconstructed special blend of the 1907 British Antarctic Expedition of Sir Ernest Shackleton...
Skyler Tompkins, Bradley Grenier, Amy Obie, and Janzen Esterreicher answer this week's question.
Recently, I had the pleasure to welcome North Caribou Lake First Nation Councillor Tyson Matawapit to Ottawa. We discussed how the federal government can help address the housing needs in his community...
When I went to the hardware store last week I had no intention of buying another barbeque. Honestly, I went there only to get a couple mouse traps...