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Call for Canadian Safe Boating Award nominations

Perhaps I’m a safety ninny. We loaded onto the pontoon boat, adults and kids, including some guests to the cottage, and prepared for a tour of some of our favourite spots around the lake. As the kids put on their PFDs dutifully, I thought to myself, maybe I’ll wear mine too. Sure, I can swim, [...]

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Embrace Life—always wear your seatbelt

As we head into Cottage Driving Season, think about keeping your family safe on the road. There’s a film currently going viral on the internet, Embrace Life: Always Wear Your Seat Belt that touched me and will touch you too. Read about the making of this film.

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Andy Barrie and Kids in Camp

There’s a surprise on the Facts & Arguments page of Friday’s Globe and Mail, which I finally got around to reading this morning: an essay by Andy Barrie, who recently retired as the host of CBC Radio’s Metro Morning. It was a surprise to see him in a space usually reserved for less high-profile writers, [...]

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A little spring skiing anyone?

Ready, set, GO! I don’t usually run press releases verbatim, but if your cottage is still closed up and you need to get out of town, you might want to hop on this… “In celebration of Easter, The Westin Trillium House, Blue Mountain’s only AAA/CAA Four-Diamond resort, has announced a special rate of $100 for [...]

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A hot dog by any other shape—would be as good?

If you’re like me, the Olympics has dominated your news feed for the past two weeks. And if so, you may have overlooked another news story critical to cottagers: the motion to change the shape of the hot dog. We’ve long complained that dogs and buns come packaged in different quantities (why are there 12 [...]

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A Christmas reflection

“We are blessed,” Dawn Yager said, randomly, one day last week as I dashed into the office, having spent more time than I wanted chasing a last-minute gift at lunch. I stopped and looked at her. What? “That man,” she nodded in the direction of a courier who had just left, “has people in Somalia.” [...]

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Cottagers can participate in the annual Christmas Bird Count

Northern saw-whet owl. Photo by Betsy Higgins, courtesy Ontario Nature Did you know that there was once a popular annual hunt during which teams competed to see who could shoot the most birds and small mammals as a Christmas day activity? Fortunately, someone saw the light through the flying feathers, specifically American ornithologist Frank Chapman, [...]

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Vote for Cottage Dreams

[UPDATE: The contest is now closed.] Trust the irrepressible Seana O’Neill of Cottage Dreams to roust me out of my little blog hiatus. She needs our help for a very good cause—to expand the Cottage Dreams program in Northern Ontario. Seana’s not asking for money (though she’ll take that too). All she wants is a [...]

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