Opinion

Our region is being ignored again. That is the message I have been receiving as I visited communities throughout our riding. This week I have been in Thompson, Nelson House, Tadoule Lake, Brochet and Lac Brochet.

Growing an industry requires a bit of luck and a bit of outside-the-box thinking. With healthy doses of each, northern tourism can work beyond our best expectations.

Small trees that require sun to thrive are primarily apples and crabapples, pin cherries, chokecherries, plums, cherry plums and pears. Only specific varieties of these fruits are hardy in our area.

Somewhere in this week’s paper, you can read a story about a new strategy to promote snowmobiling in northern Manitoba, giving it a kickstart in hopes of attracting more money to the region. That makes sense.

It is time for a universal single-payer pharmacare system and prescription drug coverage for all. That is the clear message from our NDP team. Nearly two million Canadians can’t afford to fill their prescriptions.

I’ll admit, I always thought I was already registered as an organ and tissue donor. For some reason, I thought it was automatic; that you’d have to check a box for someone to not use your organs after death. That assumption makes some sense.

Another key cabinet minister, Jane Philpott, has resigned from Trudeau’s cabinet just days after Jody Wilson-Raybould spoke truth to power about the SNC-Lavalin scandal – and Trudeau’s Liberal government is scrambling.

Deciduous trees often provide us with a blaze of colour before shedding their leaves in fall.

Facebook is hell on earth and I’d be glad to see it die. I don’t really actually mean that, but now that I’ve got your attention, let’s actually get to what I want to talk to you about.

I’m in a weird spot with one of Canada’s current forefront issues – I support environmentally friendly policies, but I can’t support a carbon tax because it stands to have a disproportionate impact on northerners.