Opinion

The colonial legacy of Canada is something which is appalling, and some experts even call it genocidal.

With the news this week that longstanding Cochrane company Spray Lake Sawmills was selling out to British Columbia-based company the West Fraser Timber Co., many in the community are left wondering what this means for the future.

I went to our bedroom window this past weekend to see how our apple tree was doing. Sure enough, it was yielding the fruit of its summertime labour. How amazing: exactly four months earlier these apples were blossoms of springtime promise.

A couple of weeks ago Sue and I were talking about our back yard and an idea came up….

Within the first few sips, it became apparent to me that here was a career journalist who personifies the eagle’s-eye perspective for which this newspaper is named (see last week’s column ).