Every bit of communities in our country were built on people helping each other. Today, too many of us are dependent upon some other authority helping us out when we think that we are not as well looked after as

We’ve all watched puppeteers and ventriloquists and have been amazed at the difference in the way the puppets acted under different hands. It’s not just the words that seem like they come from the puppet’s mouth, but also the body

Very few people think that they are entitled to more than others, but, watch their actions! Maybe it’s just because I was raised on a farm where every day our family worked with the soil and animals and people, that

Just this past weekend I participated in two lengthy conversations, with two very different groups of people. One, was a very rural group of rural neighbours, who have spent most of their lives only a few acres from some of

A few years ago, at a breakfast in Shawville, two old farmers wondered “what could be done to let our farmers be competitive in the world?” For the previous 60 years since World War II, farmers had been coached by

Last week I listened to an environmentalist who warned the farmers that our Quebec government was adopting a policy to better protect waterways, riverbanks, wetlands and areas that flood regularly, both in springtime and during more frequent heavy rains. In

Last week, July 10 to 16, like many of you, I watched sports, the stampede, and the news. After someone complained about the abuse of animals when one of the animals competing in the stampede was injured and had to

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