By Al Lowe
Contributor

At 90 above or 40 below, the strident call of the Blue Jay can be heard in the northern forest.

With the end of a busy 2010 and a quiet holiday now behind us my focus is shifting to 2011 and what opportunities and challenges lie ahead in Ottawa. One thing is for certain, it will be a busy year.

“It’s long distance!” used to tell you the call was important. When making a Christmas long distance call, you were connected from operator to operator. It often took several attempts. Now we can dial anywhere in the world and can expect someone to answer. In our household the timer was set on the stove to tell us when to hang up because long distance was expensive.
With one son living in Korea, we now rely on Skype to keep in contact. Skype and other internet calling services allow us to talk anytime and for almost free. And we can do it face to face because of the internet.

It is in our nature to be competitive.
So when we choose to follow a sports team it is usually when they are at their best that we decide that they will be "my team!"

A Northern Ontario man has been fined a total of $1,000 for catching and keeping too many brook trout and providing misleading information to a conservation officer.

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Riverside HCF

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O.P.P.

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This year’s annual OPP Festive R.I.D.E. (Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere) campaign was in effect from Friday November 26, 2010 through January 2, 2011.