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Author: Jeff Scott

Jeff Scott: The Countryside View – Flying Air Canada… If you’re lucky

July 24, 2019July 24, 2019 Jeff Scott

I have always been proud of Air Canada. Whenever I see their jets on the runway or in the air, I always get a stirring inside me, similar to the patriotic feeling that I get when I see the Canadian flag flying in a foreign country. I guess that is

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Jeff Scott: The Countryside View – ‘Legislated Stupidity’

June 21, 2019June 21, 2019 Jeff Scott

  Laws and policies are made with the best of intentions and for the safety of all, and are often put in place in reaction to a terrible tragedy. Unfortunately, they are enacted without thinking through the problems and consequences of the law, and actually entrench a problem by doing

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Jeff Scott: The Countryside View – The precarious rise of Dixie

June 17, 2019June 17, 2019 Jeff Scott

Being a Civil War buff, I have often ventured into the Heart of Dixie with an historian’s eye. The American southeast, or the Confederate States as they were then, were devastated by the Civil War, particularly by Sherman’s destructive ‘March to the Sea,’ where the army set out to destroy

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Jeff Scott: The Countryside View – The battery revolution is finally here

May 30, 2019May 30, 2019 Jeff Scott

  Summer is finally here. It is so nice to have a good cup of coffee out on the deck on a sunny Saturday morning, to enjoy the garden and listen to the birds. Then the peace and calm is completely shattered, as your neighbour’s lawnmower roars to life.  He

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Jeff Scott: The Countryside View – The news that still needs to be told

May 23, 2019May 23, 2019 Jeff Scott

  Bill Nye, ‘The Science Guy,’ did a stint on John Oliver’s late night show Last Week Tonight to talk about carbon taxes and climate change. He did an adult version of his iconic science show as a skit. He angrily stated, “By the end of this century, if emissions

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Jeff Scott: The Countryside View – Increasing the speed limit to 110 km/h

May 17, 2019May 17, 2019 Jeff Scott

  The Ontario Government is going to raise the speed limit on our freeways from 100 km/h to 110. At first, this sounded to me like a “buck-a-beer” move by Premier Ford to stoke support among his populist supporters. This is not what is actually happening. The Ministry of Transportation

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Jeff Scott: The Countryside View – Hawaii as the new green oasis

May 13, 2019May 13, 2019 Jeff Scott

Hawaii is a spectacular chain of islands with beautiful beaches, mountains, and exotic flowers. This is why one and a half million people call it home and 10 million more visit each year. But being out in the Pacific, 3,900 kilometres from the California coast, has its drawbacks. The islands

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Jeff Scott: The Countryside View – China and trade

May 1, 2019May 1, 2019 Jeff Scott

  China is having a fight with Canada. We detained Meng Wanzhou for the Americans, because they want her to be extradited to the United States to face charges of conspiracy to commit bank fraud. She also happens to be the deputy chairwoman and chief financial officer of China’s largest

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Jeff Scott: The Countryside View – Monarchs in paradise

April 24, 2019April 24, 2019 Jeff Scott

  This winter, in a garden in Hawaii, I was checking out all of the exotic plants, when I was astonished to see a monarch butterfly. It was gracefully floating around, as if it was the most natural thing in the world for such a butterfly to be on an

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Jeff Scott: The Countryside View – The effects of road salt

April 17, 2019April 17, 2019 Jeff Scott

Winter has finally left us – left us with piles of sand, salt and dirt on our roads, parking lots and sidewalks. There is always a mess after a long winter, especially if there hasn’t been a really good spring rain. Looking at the remains of what we put on

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Jeff Scott: The Countryside View – Canada Goose and the new fashion victims

April 11, 2019April 11, 2019 Jeff Scott

  The late 70s was definitely a difficult time for this gangly and pimply teenager, who had no fashion sense and was living in the bush north of Lake Superior. Disco was all the rage in the far-off southern cities, and the fashions and clothes reflected this. I can vividly

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Jeff Scott: The Countryside View – Guns and greed

April 4, 2019April 4, 2019 Jeff Scott

Growing up in the bush North of Lake Superior, I, like many others, went hunting. When I turned 15, after taking the hunter safety course, I bought a 410 shot gun, then got a small game licence and went hunting for partridge. I would come home from school and go

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