Bill Steer
Freelance Journalist, Village Media at Freelance
Professor @CanadoreCollege and @NipissingU, Founder of @CanadianEcology, Explorer of Northern Ontario, Adventurer.
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5 days ago |
sootoday.com | Bill Steer
Cobalt has been a target or source of a number of Back Roads Bill stories. Why? Through AI it said, “Back Roads Bill, through Village Media, often explores Cobalt and its history, particularly focusing on its artistic and environmental connections. He has documented the town's rich history, including the influence of artists who were drawn to Cobalt and its landscape, as well as the impact of mining on the environment.” Hmmm... AI knows everything, right?
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1 week ago |
sootoday.com | Bill Steer
Sometimes—for good reason—a story slips your mind until something triggers its return, even without a bump on the noggin. So here it is—an organic requiem of sorts, a natural obituary As Bruce Cockburn asked in his 1988 song: "If a tree falls in the forest, does anybody hear?" It was a very humid and hot day on July 11, 2020, when the pilgrimage started.
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2 weeks ago |
sootoday.com | Bill Steer
The accomplishment of driving the Wapusk Trail has come and gone. The task was to drive the longest seasonal back road in the world. It’s 752 kilometres (467 mi) in length, one way. There are no services out there, no road reports, no signs, no gravel – a snow-packed and dragged narrow winter road, often windswept, traversing the frozen muskeg with snowbanks as the guardrails. Done. We had no trip sponsors; we were just a couple of aging Canadian guys wandering and kind of wondering.
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Sep 9, 2023 |
sudbury.com | Bill Steer
When you leave home and travel a short distance away from your usual routine you become a tourist. When you poke around you find interesting stops as you, yet again, visit another Northern Ontario community. One example is Red Lake a long way to go almost at the end of the road. There is the natural and cultural heritage of the area, the real gems to be found and appreciated on the back roads and waters. There is more than a handful of “neat things” to discover. It is such a dichotomy.
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Sep 2, 2023 |
sudbury.com | Bill Steer
From a Canadian perspective her story is surpassed in books, film and media only by that of the Titanic. You most likely know the lyrics: “The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down. Of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee…” The late and great Canadian folksinger Gordon Lightfoot inspired popular interest in this vessel with his 1976 ballad, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. You might as well listen before you read on.
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What's with wolves in Ontario with Back Roads Bill (his photos)https://t.co/6KPP5JL5Jn https://t.co/LKVjQ9lJdC
It's those menacing eyes that see right through you...naturally. Canus lupus can't get much closer! On the back roads. #northernontario #backroadsbill
The WOLVES are back! An early morning and a dawn shot. The ravens at the deer kill have brought them in. From hundreds of nocturnal images there looks to be a pack of five. They are going east-west along the Mattawa River - keeping their curious distance for now. More... https://t.co/Nd4MjgJh36