Opinion

There is an issue facing farmers that isn't getting as much attention as one might expect.

Milos Raonic has been Canada's Mr. Tennis for a couple of years now, but we now have a female equivalent - Eugenie Bouchard.

I am blessed with a February birthday - you know, the month of love, hearts, blah, blah, blah. As I 'mature', I find myself leaning towards things I would like to accomplish in my lifetime. You know, the old bucket list.

Sunday was Groundhog Day. That meant a few dozen crazy people dressed in silly clothes and hats rounded up the fat indolent rodents, placed them in their chubby hands and proclaimed we were either going to have six more weeks of winter or not.

We realize that most of our service-providers who work outdoors are well compensated for their efforts, but when the cold wind-chill temperatures reach minus 30 and beyond, we begin to wonder how much is too much or whether we'd be willing to take on

There's no doubt this year that in the National Hockey League, East is least and West is best. A huge discrepancy in win-loss records was starkly apparent when the 30 NHL teams hit the mid-January point.

You never know what is going to inspire you to take an introspective look at the world we're creating for ourselves. Often it's a book or particularly prescient article. Maybe it's a TED talk.

"Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you," were the first words words spoken into a telephone. Alexander Graham Bell is said to have uttered these words to his assistant Thomas A.

Tanya's Tales

Flipping through a few favoured agricultural websites it was interesting to see yet another disease is threatening the Canadian hog sector.