By Jack Elliott
Correspondent

By Al Lowe
Contributor

I hope everyone has had a great summer so far and that Mother Nature has a few more sunny days saved for our rapidly approaching Labour Day long weekend. The column this week will provide you with details on two items that may be interest of to you – the federal New Democrat convention which was held just over a week ago, and a riding wide survey that I am sending out in the next few weeks.

I could not help but notice Saturday evening as we were fishing just north of my brothers cabin, that the sun is now setting by 8:30 in the evening. We had thought that we could get a full hour and half on the hump, but had to head back to the cabin after an hour fishing.
Fall is coming. The days are definitely getting shorter.

If you are a Minnesota Vikings fan like me, you were glued to the television Friday evening to see what their newly acquired quarterback, Brett Favre could do.

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With cross-border travel at its lowest level in nearly four decades, Canada’s tourism industry is being devastated by Conservative government inaction, Liberal MPs said today.

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By Heidi Ivall
HCC

The Worst Roads campaign theme in 2009 is ‘It’s In Your Hands’ and is aimed at pressuring municipalities to use the money that has been set aside by the federal government ($1.9 billion) and the