Category Archives: From NAKINA…

For more than 15 years, this curmudgeon has been writing a regular column for a provincial paper, Ontario News North. Never read it? Too bad. It circulates in the provincial regions north of Geralton, north of Terrace Bay….ok ok….way up above Lake Superior. Its claim to be a daily is as much an exaggeration as its claim to bringing people the news of the north. But one thing it did have up until about just a few years ago was a local resident writer who wrote its most popular column. “From Nakina” by Rotzy. This senior was and is amazingly young in mind and in thinking. Sports? He’ll keep ya laughing. Political world? He’ll split your sides. Social faux pas in the news by bigwigs? You’re very likely to enjoy Rotzy’s columns.

He and partner, Miz Jo, abandoned Nakina years back, Rotzy continues to make people laugh not only in the ONN but also on our website, BOOKz, COOKz, NOOKz at www.szpin.ca

  • July 5 – health check, tech challenge and Canada shame?
  • June 28 – censored “rant-age”
  • June 22 – dang computer probs
  • June 7 – COVID, CARP and Indian Residential Schools
  • May 31 – Rotzy took a Victoria break!
  • May 10 – medical examinations demand deeper considerations
  • May 3 – the cremation of Rotzy McGee
  • Apr 26 – Rotzy’s kind of still feeling the effects of last weeks fuddled up column
  • Apr 19 – CARPing about more than just fish, COVID and ZOOMER 740am
  • Apr 12 – Health issues become increasingly confusing in later years…welcome to the world of COVID chaos.
  • Apr 6 – A column with less bite in it than usual
  • Mar 29 –