Archive for November, 2009

Fishing Outfitters in Canada

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Lake Sebec is year-round retreat in Highlands Region

When I tell people we’ll be visiting friends in Maine at their summer cottage on Lake Sebec, they look at me like I’m confused and reply, “You mean Sebago.” “No,” I counter, “I mean Sebec.” And I do. Lake Sebec stretches lazily along for 13 miles and is 5 miles wide, its seductive serenity luring [...]

Arctic Ice Reaches Historic Seasonal Low

“I would argue that, from a practical perspective, we almost have a seasonally ice-free Arctic now, because multiyear sea ice is the barrier to the use and development of the Arctic,” said Barber [Canada's Research Chair in Arctic System Science at the University of Manitoba]. The latest tracking of Arctic sea ice extent from the [...]

SAFETY ON FLOATING ICE SHEETS

U.S. ARMY COLD REGIONS RESEARCH & ENGINEERING LABORATORY Hanover, New Hampshire For many of us in northern climates, working or playing on the frozen surface of a river or lake is part of winter. Knowing how to do so safely can be a matter of life or death. This handout presents general, common-sense precautionary measures [...]

Day 7: The Olympic torch in the Great White North, where the youth shine bright

Nunavut — Just when you think that your country’s future is in peril, what with all that global warming and, you know, the Toronto Maple Leafs, there comes a sign that all is not lost. Salvation is found, at least in these first few days of the 2010 Olympic Torch Relay and the attendant road [...]

Fishing, outdoor pursuits were natural outlet for veteran

Among his many hobbies, many of which had to do with the outdoors, Joseph L. Butler truly enjoyed fishing and spending time along the water. Longtime friend Richard Dixon of East Haven said he met Butler many years ago when they were both ice fishing at a pond in Branford. “I kidded him and said, [...]

Thoughts from podunk

Canada’s most reactionary ever politician, Prime minister Stephen Harper, has been forced to send Manitoba’s Gary Doer, a socialist working class union leader and NDP politician to Washington as its Ambassador because of mounting pressure from the labor, peace and progressive movements in Canada looking for more sane international relations and complementing the international hopes [...]

Moose need to get greasy, says sniper

The special teams were anything but for the Manitoba Moose during the opening weekend of the American Hockey League season. A big goose egg for the power play (0-for-10) was coupled with the penalty killing units giving up a goal in each game (7-for-9 total) as the Moose split with the Houston Aeros. “Our specialty [...]

Moose reduce pickerel populace

WHO says Moose don’t fish?The Manitoba Moose piled into a bus early Monday morning and drove out to the Whiteshell, where they spent the entire day fishing as part of the kind of team-building exercise that has become increasingly popular among pro sports teams in recent years. Many laughs were had, hundreds of fish were [...]

Escape to the Eastern Townships Gourmet food, luxe lodgings and Gregorian chants — what's not to love about North Hatley?

I take in the savoury perfume wafting up from my plate, before the first morsel of tender, perfectly pink Quebec lamb disappears into my already amused bouche. I don’t want even a molecule of aroma from this succulent specimen of local terroir to be wasted, so I take my time enjoying each successive taste, complimented [...]

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