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Taking the Learning Curve Too Fast

November 28, 2022 by Dan Needles

Learning Curve

For the past two years, everybody has been talking about the invasion of small-town Ontario by refugees from the city. The traffic in town is now just like Toronto; in fact, it is a little bit worse. … [Read more...]

OPINION: Today, everyone is an expert but I see red flags unless expert talk includes humility that inspires confidence and trust

December 17, 2021 by Dan Needles

Last month my cardiologist put me on a beta blocker to lower my blood pressure and asked me to take daily readings with the little Chinese-made monitor I keep on my desk. After a week, I was alarmed … [Read more...]

OPINION: Got the supply chain blues that only a guy from Georgia with a garbage can bacon smoker can cure

November 23, 2021 by Dan Needles

This whole past year has given us a steady diet of bad news about supply chain issues, with hungry factories, tight inventories, shipping bottlenecks, resource shortages and thousands of people who … [Read more...]

OPINION: What is it about rural living? Moments of clarity for the exhausted

October 25, 2021 by Dan Needles

I have a friend who moved out of the city with his wife 30 years ago to pursue a career as an editor and a shepherd on a small farm near Peterborough. He was thoroughly urban and, I would assume, … [Read more...]

OPINION: The best driver ever

September 30, 2021 by Dan Needles

Just reading in this newspaper about teenage drivers heading out on the road without licenses because the province can’t deal with the enormous backlog in testing created by the pandemic. My own … [Read more...]

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Rough Neigbourhood by Shelagh Armstrong

A Rough Neighbourhood

It has become commonly accepted that we … [More...]

Things Are Getting Better

There is an old joke from the Great … [More...]

Illustration of Dan on porch talking on cell phone

I Don’t Know What Happened

It’s the most common phrase we hear on … [More...]

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Finding Larkspur – A Return to Village Life

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With Axe and Flask

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Dan Needles Guest Speaker

Dan is frequently asked to speak at conferences and banquets across the country, making us laugh about the old rural community and the way it meets the modern world.....read more

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Latest Posts

  • A Rough Neighbourhood November 27, 2024
  • Things Are Getting Better September 27, 2024
  • I Don’t Know What Happened June 27, 2024
  • The Money Pit May 13, 2024

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