Opinion

You are nearing or already into retirement and you want to maintain a secure income stream, pass a steady income to your spouse, or gradually transfer an inheritance to your grandchildren.

As the warm weather winds down, farmers' markets and organic farming around the country are looking at yet another record season.

Fall colour on the Prairies can be brief. If you throw in the right environmental conditions it can be shorter than brief.

Last month's meeting of Ontario municipalities was marked by a growing concern about the rising costs of police services in Canada. "It is not sustainable," concluded the president of the Association of Municipalities of Ontario.

Working with fresh flowers brings something special to our lives. The art of floral design is a very proud form of art that has been around for thousands of years.

Ninebarks (Physocarpus opulifolius) provide landscape value over an uncommonly long season: colourful yellow or purple foliage through summer, intensifying in fall; creamy-white flowers in spring; and deep red seedpods in late summer.

A recent poll found only six in 10 British Columbians have heard of B.C. Hydro's $8 billion proposal to build a third hydroelectric dam on the Peace River.

We've been basking in some unusually warm fall weather this past week, but prairie veterans are not so naïve as to believe it will last. We'll soon be plugging in our vehicles and bundling up against the cold.

Dear Editor W.C. Fields' line "Never give a sucker an even break, or smarten up a chump" has never been better executed than by the Conservative government and their farmer-disenfranchisement policies.

Ed, my neighbour next door, was so preoccupied with his harvest last week that he missed a real estate for sale sign that went up in our front yard. When he saw it after several days, he grew a smile from ear to ear.