How often have you heard “it’s too hot today,” or “it’s really cold this morning!” In our Country we can say with confidence; “just wait, in six months, it will be different.” Thirty-five years ago, at one of the dairy

We have all sat and chatted with an old friend over a pot of coffee. After we had figured out the weather and talked about who had the best field of corn this year; sometimes we talked about where the

Sunday and Monday morning we woke up and looked out the window to have our vision of this beautiful Ottawa Valley severely obscured by dense smoke created by forest fires in Quebec. The view of the parliament buildings in Ottawa

Every election that comes around we hear, “if you don’t vote, you can’t complain after!” When I was taking Canadian history, there were two cartoons in the history book that I will never forget. The first one was “STUMPIN” which

As we go for a leisurely drive down some back roads in this beautiful part of our country, we come upon some charming little country churches in some quite remote areas. Many of these little churches are close to a

Farming has always been a new challenge every year. If the weatherman can’t decide to give us the threat of flooding our rivers, streams, and even our fields, we may receive week after week of no rain and thousands of

Have you ever felt that you didn’t belong here, or just been told by a very bold, uneducated person that you don’t belong here? Have you ever had weeds grow in your field, garden or lawn that you thought didn’t

Ever since a bar graph showing the difference in the pay that unilingual English, bilingual English, unilingual French, and bilingual French speaking people in Quebec earn was published, to show that the French population was not underpaid compared to the

As old farmers are, we are used to being at a crossroad decision every day. Do we plant corn or beans? Do we plow or no-till the field? A farmer can read all the crop price predictions that he can

Since time began, and Eve was blamed for feeding Adam the apple, the man has been looked at as the leader. The stronger, smarter of the sexes. Stronger, maybe. Smarter, that can very easily be debated. The leader, quite often