At home: 'Grubby little backyard' gets set for huge transformation | Page 867 | Unpublished
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Author: Paul Welch
Publication Date: February 26, 2026 - 09:03

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At home: 'Grubby little backyard' gets set for huge transformation

February 26, 2026
There’s nothing like an epic winter to make you crave a spring project, and right now, my ambitions are keeping pace with the snowfall. I don’t just want to trade in my shovel for a garden hoe. I want to transform my backyard, provided that said “transformations” happen on a shoestring.  At present, my small […]


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Meet Greg Rickford, Ontario’s Minister of Indigenous Affairs (and the guy basically running point on Ring of Fire economic and community partnerships). If ever a politician was custom-built for the job, it’s Greg — he’s like the Swiss Army knife of northern development. Check out this resume: He starts out as a nurse in Brantford, Ont., and heads north to deliver frontline healthcare in remote First Nations communities. Then he studies law at McGill, earns an MBA from Laval, and dives deep into Indigenous governance, health, and economic development. By 2008, he’s in federal politics...
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