Newsletter
Becky Mason Reid McLachlan Bill Mason Paul Mason Gift Store FAQ's Contact Us Visitor Counter Free for the reading is our finely crafted Canadian newsletter about art happenings and canoe events that are national and internationally in flavour. It is a fun and interesting read. It offers a free screen saver gift. Bill Mason has a original impressionistic painting for sale. They are one of a kind paintings. All Bill Mason's works are influenced by wilderness nature, water and land. Every oil painting for sale on-line there is a write-up to accompany each painting to read so you can understand what connects to his oil painting image. If an original is out of your price range consider buying one of our Bill Mason prints that is offered in our on-line gift store. Becky Mason writes about her art shows at the Cube gallery which reps her work. She has a write up about her canoe course and explains why her canoe lessons are a unique experience set against a Canadian wilderness backdrop. She also notes Canadian and USA paddling and canoe symposium you may want to consider attending, these symposiums offer canoe workshops with skilled instructors. If watching paddling skills is more your speed Becky does present canoe demonstrations to music. The paddling demonstrations are so beautiful to watch. You can see a canoe demonstration of Becky Mason showing her art of canoeing in the Classic Solo Canoeing DVD it can be purchased in our online store. Reid McLachlan is a fine artist, an experienced expressionist oil artist with 20 years of painting to his name. His subjects ranges from people and what they are think about their situations. Mostly Reid McLachlan dwells on couples relationships and how they interact with each other, some are happy some are upset and some we don't know what they think. You need to pause and study his paintings because at first glance you see the first message then upon revisiting his canvases you see more and more in his paintings. Paul Mason is hard at work at drawing and paintings his funny cartoons. Becky has the new information about an environment cause she is currently working on. All the Mason family loves the wood canvas canoe. Bill continues to be talked about on many website, Some that have linked are Canoeski and many more which I'll be listing soon. We all like to go canoeing. If you want canoeing instruction Becky has just the canoe lessons for you. If you live too far away to attend her courses you can always pick up some of her and her Dad's paddling instructional dvds or video they are both filmmakers that have won awards. Artist Reid Mclachlan will be profiled in a film on Bravo! |
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England -Cambridgeshire Mepal classes and Cambridge paddling on the
River Cam pictures
and read more...
(off-site link)
Scotland - Castle Semple classes and a paddling Loch Lomond- and we did see
the Wallabies!- a few youtube clips of classes are fun to watch too pictures
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Reid and I are doing a two-step happy canoe dance because hip-hip hooray our three years of absolute drudgery of a Revenue Canada audit is now done! I fought every step of the way and it was long and hard slogging with many good people behind me. The good people behind me. Parkerprinslebano Senior accountant and president, Steve Parker was superb and I highly recommend his firm if you need an accountant for regular tax stuff or one that specializes in audits and artist issues. Thank you Marilyn Hill, she was the amazingly patient accountant appointed to me and answered all my questions and explained what an audit entails. CARFAC Canadian Artists' Representation is a fantastic Canadian national arts body of which I'm a member. They arranged the free use of a senior litigator in the Toronto firm Torys when I was forced to accept a court date for my audit. Fortunately I was able to settle out-of-court with excellent legal advice guiding my way. A heart-felt thank you CARFAC! Our dear friend Marla Bryant also provided excellent advice and a wonderful boost at the very end that got us through! And finally friends and family, I love you all. You stuck with us through thick and thin. Tabulating data, sorting through files, answering the phone, being there when I'd lost a piece of myself that this audit took and stomped on. Thank you for reminding me who I am and why I do what I do. Results of the shakedown I'm happy with the outcome of settling out of court for a few hundred dollars in fines. It was three years with two audit officers working full time - not counting all our lost time during the audit process. But all is done and oh my what a learning experience in accounting. Help save Canada's environmental laws The federal government is committed to gutting the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act (CEAA). This is possibly Canada’s most important environmental legislation because it often requires environmental impact studies to be prepared and considered in public hearings before projects such as tar sands mines, oil and gas pipelines and nuclear power plants are built. The law has been steadily improving over the last 20 years through court rulings and government changes to regulations. It is a major part of protecting the environment and a tool we rely on to prevent ecological disaster. The public strongly supports environmental protection despite the economic times, so the government has devised a strategy of hiding changes to environmental protection by burying its policy in the budget. We recently saw the passage of budget bill C-9 in the House, allowing for the weakening of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act. In reaction, Sierra Club Canada and Ecojustice are asking Canada’s federal opposition parties to make a public commitment to restoring the environmental assessment law at the earliest opportunity. Sierra Club Canada and Ecojustice sent this letter May 7, 2010 to federal opposition parties: Read letter... (off-site link)
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|  Amy's website does a great job inspiring girls and women to get out and enjoy our beautiful outdoors. She has interviewed me and lots of others on our views on camping. Read on.... (off-site link)
|  "Freshwater Paddles" Exhibit Thirty current & former artists and artisans from the Artists in their Environment studio tour will be transforming canoe paddles into one-of-a-kind works of art. These pieces will form a special exhibit stop during the studio tour which takes place October 2,3 & 9,10,11 with 100% of sales being donated to WaterCan to help build wells in Uganda. Read on... (off-site link)
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In addition I'm teaching some Paddle Canada Courses too. For the second week of
July I'm teaching one solo and one tandem class in Algonquin Park.
My Paddle Canada Algonquin Park courses are listed along with a lot of
other canoe happenings 
Becky and Reid had a great time teaching canoeing and presenting their slideshow in
Scotland, England, Ireland and Sweden for 6 weeks.
I'll be adding more links here in the next few weeks. It's fun
to see the images and read the UK canoeists comments. The volcanic ash slowed us down
but it turned out to be more fun (and very exciting) because we
travelled to Ireland and Scotland on buses, ferries and trains. 
