Most mornings, one of the first things I do is to browse my regular variety of online media. A lot of it is mainstream and some of it would be considered alternative. I noticed a story the other day in […]

Happy New Year, and let’s hope that it is going to be a really good 2014. A lot of things happened this year, some were good and some less than fantastic. One of the good things is that the Nation […]

In the 1970s and 1980s, environmental and conservation concerns were hot-button election issues. The media made environmental and conservation stories a priority. As a child at school, I remember learning about air and land pollution, the negative effects of big […]

Christmas is just around the corner and already I see the sales push everywhere I go. I have never really enjoyed this time of the year because I realize that it is mostly about a huge push to market products […]

I can’t seem to get comfortable with the seasonal transition from fall to winter this year. Perhaps this is because the weather is up and down like a yo-yo. I have seen snow come and go several times now and […]

I am always thrilled by the season’s first snowfall. A few days ago I was pleasantly surprised to awake to see a soft fresh blanket of snow outside my window that covered the pines and forest floor. In my remote […]

Recently, I came across a mother bear and her two cubs as they were crossing a highway in northern Quebec. It seemed like a good idea to get a better look at these beautiful creatures so I turned around and […]

I love wood or mistik. I must be part beaver or amisk because I am always wrapped up in projects where wood is the main ingredient. Trees, of course, are an enormous contributor to our life on this planet and […]

First Nation people are very enthusiastic when it comes to names. We name children these days in meaningful ways to honour the land, animal life and even the heavens. For example, my brother Joe named one of his boys Orion. […]

Cellphones are a big part of our lives these days. Although the technology is rather young it is probably true that most of us would be lost without our cellphones. I recall first-generation cellphones in the early 1990s. In remote […]