Dec 06 2007
Published in Essa Times 7 December 2008 The Grey & Simcoe Foresters have been a fixture in Barrie since they were formed on 15 December 1936, when The Grey Battalion from Owen Sound and Barrie’s The Simcoe Foresters amalgamated. However, Barrie’s military history goes back much further. Barrie’s first militia units were two small rifle …
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Nov 22 2007
Young V.C. winner was in local regiment Published in the Barrie Advance 23 November 2008 The highest award for bravery in the face of an enemy that can be awarded to members of British and Commonwealth forces is the Victoria Cross. The V.C. was first awarded by Queen Victoria in 1856 and …
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Nov 22 2007
Published in the Essa Times 23 November 2007 During the 1950s, North America was under constant watch for attack by Russian bombers flying over the North Pole. To counter this threat, three lines of early warning radar stations were built across Canada: the arctic Distant Early Warning Line, the short-lived Mid-Canada Line …
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Nov 08 2007
Published in the Barrie Advance 9 November 2007 Published in the Orillia Today 23 November 2007 On Remembrance Day, Canadians honour the sacrifices of Canada’s war veterans. It’s also a time when Canadians most often think about our troops currently serving in harm’s way.
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Nov 07 2007
November 2007 I will open by stating the obvious: the death of Robert Dziekanski after being tasered by the 4 RCMP officers should not have happened. I don’t know anyone who would agree with that more that the RCMP officers themselves. Although none of us “arm-chair quarterbacks” really know what was going through the minds …
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Oct 27 2007
Published in the Toronto Sun 28 October 2007 Re “Harper: Bully or shrewd political strategist” (Oct 21): Angelo Persichilli has hit the nail right on the head with this one.
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Oct 20 2007
October 2007 Angelo Persichilli (Harper: Bully or shrewd political strategist, Toronto Sun, Oct 21) has hit the nail right on the head with this one.
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Oct 11 2007
October 2007 Re: Peter Worthington’s Young Canadians Respond (October 12), it’s good to see that young Canadians are upholding this country’s proud military history, despite what the “peace-at-any-price proponents” would like. Historically, Canadians have fielded the biggest non-conscript military. It just seems to be an inherent trait that Canadians are willing to serve their country …
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Oct 09 2007
October 2007 What a pathetic lot we will be if Ontarians reject John Torry’s Conservatives just because of the political land-mine he laid with private school funding. Are you, my fellow Ontarians, telling me that you’d rather keep the Fiberals in power; the ones who foisted up on us the biggest tax increase in …
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Oct 03 2007
October 2007 This year we celebrate the 89th anniversary of the end of the Great War; “The War To End All Wars”; The First World War. Despite all the major reasons why the war might have started, the actual incident which started WWI, took place in a small corner of Europe called …
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