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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Remembering Henry Legary's cheese.
Henry brought in an amazing selection of cheeses when he owned Drayton Cash and Carry in the 1970s and early '80s.,,

Wednesday, July 23, 2025

This summer, I've valued the opportunity to attend meetings focused on the issues that matter to people across northwestern Ontario...

Wednesday, July 16, 2025

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...

Sunday, June 22, 2025

Today, I stand before you not as a visitor, not as a newcomer---but as one of your own. A Canadian...

Sunday, June 22, 2025

This week in Ottawa, I questioned the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources about the ongoing delays facing Canada's natural resource sector...

Sunday, June 22, 2025

After many years of wearing glasses with photogray lenses (the lenses automatically darkened in sunlight to produce grey tinged shades - automatic sunglasses). I loved them!...

Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Today was a great one for a walk - overcast, cool, snowy and brutal for a spring day - but a beauty for a little hike...

Thursday, May 15, 2025

I was sitting in a Thunder Bay hospital waiting room this afternoon while Mary was having some tests performed somewhere down the hallway...

Thursday, May 1, 2025

Mary and I had just gotten home from our anniversary dinner Thursday night...

Thursday, April 24, 2025

Snow devils gallop across the lake as ribs, rubbed right, rest atop slow smoke in the barbeque. It's spring!...

Sunday, April 20, 2025

I've been observing the best squirrel yet -- let's call him Alfie -- all afternoon. He has been hanging around the deck for hours, herky jerkying on the deck and along the rails...

Thursday, April 10, 2025

As we enter the election period here in Sioux Lookout and the rest of Kenora-Kiiwetinoong, I hope that our next Member of Parliament will prioritize the interests of our community and work to bring greater prosperity to the region...

Thursday, April 10, 2025

Silliness isn't always funny, but sometimes you have to laugh anyway...

Thursday, March 27, 2025

Last Saturday evening I relaxed by my pine wood fire in the Palace and began an hour and a half before sunset to take a panoramic picture every 10 minutes of the progression of the setting sun...

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Like many, lately you may be thinking that there is much going on in the world beyond Sioux Lookout...

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Common sense Conservatives strongly condemn President Trump's latest unjust tariffs targeting Canadian steel and aluminum workers and manufacturers...

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

I fell into a pit.
Several years ago I dug a pit for eventual use as a gray water system at camp...

Friday, March 14, 2025

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...

Friday, March 14, 2025

This week President Trump unjustifiably placed tariffs on Canadian goods. While he lifted the tariffs on some goods, he only gave a month's reprieve...

Friday, March 7, 2025

Putting Canada first means developing our resources---and Red Lake is well positioned to lead the charge. I met with Mayor Fred Mota to discuss the opportunities ahead as well as needed infrastructure improvements...

Friday, March 7, 2025

"Like sucking on a skunk," I thought to myself, blowing out a cloud of rancid cigar smoke...

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

More than 20 years ago years ago I created a website called Fairbanks Friends. It attracted people with an interest in Fairbanks, Alaska - a place where I had lived for a couple years in the mid 1960s....

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

After nine years, the NDP-Liberal government continues to make life more expensive for Canadians. Despite completely losing control of spending, the government decided to launch a disastrous capital gains tax hike on workers, homebuilders, doctors...

Sunday, January 19, 2025

I saw this alligator in a Florida swamp last week the day before we returned home from a visit with my mother...

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