The other day my friend Tina and I chatted how a year can make a big difference, how life takes us from one place to another. Yes, we’re a year older, wiser or, for some, wilder. We’ve changed or tried […]

A lot has happened since the last time I checked out the social climate of the world. In a whirlwind month of November, Friday the 13th became a day known worldwide for terrorist attacks against the people and values of […]

I am currently writing this column from Attwell Coffee in Mississauga, Ontario. I don’t know how many happy Eeyou faces I’ve seen online with their trophy moose. Some selfies with their beasts made me chuckle – especially the one of […]

A mysterious message arrived via Facebook the other day. It stated that I was to receive a package on the plane later that day. I was about to leave on a hunting trip and had just put a caribou neck […]

by Joshua Iserhoff I love this quote from one of the best movies of all time, Forrest Gump: “My momma always said, ‘Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.’” How profound is that?! […]

The sizzle of my poor man’s steak – the pork chop – produced a satisfying smoke that tasted real BBQ and felt comfortingly sooty. The main course – strips of sirloin pork doused in a generic sauce and hot buttered […]

August is such a busy month for most of us Eeyouch. There’s the CNG’s annual general assembly and that can be heavy and long but that is democracy at its best. I am currently sitting at Kuujjuarapik Airport waiting for […]

Looking at the moon, clean and bright against the sunny sky in the crisp, deep blue openness of a July moment, made me remember Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon. It was July 20, 1969, and even though […]

I spent two weeks at Old Nemaska these past few weeks, enjoying the extreme weather: one day it was 31º C and the next only 5º. I must’ve burnt several boxes of mosquito coils as every day reminded me of […]

I let go with a hard drive, propelling the golf ball a mere 75 metres, slicing a bit to the right, as the other golfers attacked the golfballpickerupper vehicle – a modified ATV driven by a combat-hardened kid. Looking a […]