Jeff Gaye

It was 20 minutes to 7 when I arrived at Caleb Village in North Battleford for the “Jimmy’s Old Time Radio Show” 7:00 concert. I found “Jimmy,” also known as James Skarnikat, in the common room playing the piano for the residents who had already…

In a 2014 TV series, a celebrity panel named the birchbark canoe as number 20 on a list of the 50 Greatest Canadian Inventions. Of course the canoe wasn’t invented by Canadians at all; it had already been in use for centuries before Indigenous people…

Jeff Gaye Two family ranching operations in two different parts of the country; two approaches to raising and marketing their beef; two different customer bases. But one beef breed: Speckle Park. At least as far as their direct marketing goes, that…

Billi J. Miller collects decades of stories about rural life Farming has changed over the past century, and farm life has changed with it. But in Farm Kids: Stories From Our Lives, a new book by Billi J. Miller, we see that rural life unites…

January is Alzheimer Awareness Month. In light of this, the Alzheimer Society of Alberta and the Northwest territories (ASANT) wants Albertans to be aware that help and information are available through their First Link program. People are often…

Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, celebrates the triumph of good over evil. The Lakeland Multicultural Association (LMA) held its annual Diwali festival in Cold Lake on November 19 and celebrated the rich diversity of people who call the region…

Jeff Gaye The Speckle Park breed is a Canadian success story and a source of pride for its home province of Saskatchewan. A funny thing about Canadians, though—whether it’s actors, musicians, authors, doctors, or in this case cattle—Canadians can’t…

The provincial government has selected a work by Saddle Lake Cree Nation sculptor Stewart Steinhauer to be the centrepiece of the Reconciliation Garden on the legislature grounds. The sculpture will be installed in the spring and unveiled April 30,…

Cold Lake artist’s painting selected for display at worldwide gathering Cold Lake artist Patricia Coulter has been selected to show one of her works at a major conference this fall. The International Society of Experimental Artists (ISEA) is holding…

If you use Facebook, and you’re looking for something other than cat pictures and political arguments, you might want to visit the Elk Point Historical Society’s page. The page is a wealth of stories and pictures, each providing a glimpse of the…

Loretta Kyle speaks the language of ancient stone. It can make for fascinating and inspiring conversations. “I talk to rocks, you know, and there’s not that many of us that do that,” she told me at her studio near Hoselaw in the M.D. of Bonnyville.…

YukonGrow has the know-how to help farms and gardens produce Jeff Gaye The riches beneath the ground are legendary in the Yukon. There’s great potential above ground too—but the soil needs a little help. “Our native soil is awful. It’s very poor,”…

Jeff Gaye “Tired of Mother Nature kicking my ass feeding cows.” That was the Google search that led Scott Fettes to a continuous-rotation indoor fodder system. Fettes raises upwards of 200 head at his operation near Gladmar. “Five years ago now we…

Jeff Gaye With feed crops failing in the heat and drought of 2021, Calvin Gavelin had one good crop growing on his operation near McCord. That was the field a had seeded with a cover-crop cocktail of 16 different seeds: grasses, legumes, and…

Jeff Gaye The effort to develop national standards for long-term care (LTC) in Canada will take a big step forward next month. Two organizations have been working on separate aspects of establishing standards. They will each publish their proposals…

If the idea of yoga appeals to you, but you’re worried that it’s too physically difficult, there is another way to practice. Stacey Sandmeyer, who owns Sunshine Yoga in Glendon, is a certified instructor of chair yoga. She says chair yoga offers the…

Jeff Gaye Producers in Saskatchewan would like to see more processing capacity in the province. It would offer better choice and more competition among customers, which would help ease the difficulties posed by long-haul trucking or occasional plant…

Yukon born and raised engineer follows his passion and returns to his roots Jeff Gaye Yukon Geoscience Forum Supplement Mining has always been in Neil Chambers’s blood, ever since he was a small child living in Whitehorse. Now Neil is the chief…

Tracy Dormer keeps the ‘human’ in Human Resources Jeff Gaye Yukon Geoscience Forum Supplement Work is an enormous part of our lives and ideally, says Tracy Dormer, we should be able to enjoy it. Dormer is director of human resources and camp…

Real-life Covid safety lessons are a casualty of Geoscience Forum cancellation Jeff Gaye Yukon Geoscience Forum Supplement With approximately 750 delegates expected to attend the Yukon Geoscience Forum this month, organizers had placed a high…