Mar 26 2019
March 2019 The park known as McBurney Park in Kingston, Ontario, a park known locally as Skeleton Park, is one park with a rather morbid history. From 1819 until 1864, it was the Upper Burial Ground, the final resting place for many early settlers in the Kingston area of Upper Canada. Closed to new burials …
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Mar 26 2019
Toronto Sun 30 March 2019 On 26 March 2019, Cook County prosecutors on Tuesday dropped all charges against “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett for allegedly staging a phony attack and claiming he was the victim of a hate crime back in January. The public should be told the exact reason why the charges were dropped. If …
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Mar 24 2019
March 2019 Awareness of PTSD has never been higher today, but we are still needlessly loosing first responders and military veterans to suicide at alarming rates. In March 2019, it was reported that OPP constable Roch Durivage had become the fourth member of the Ontario Provincial Police to take his own life since July and …
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Mar 22 2019
March 2019 Once envisioned as the model of what a planned community could be, the name Love Canal has become synonyms with environmental disaster. Although the community, to be called Model City by its founder William T. Love, never came to fruition under his guidance or as he envisioned, what did emerge was a residential …
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Mar 21 2019
Published in the Alliston Herald, 23 March 2019 Published in the Springwater News, 4 April 2019 Published in the Canadian Military Family Magazine, 9 April 2019 At 1pm on Wednesday, March 20, a small contingent from Canadian Forces Ammunition Depot Angus at Base Borden gathered at the cenotaph in the Village of Angus, just north …
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Mar 05 2019
Published in the Toronto Sun 6 March 2019 Re: “Huawei CFO suing Canada” ( Associated Press, 4 March 2019): When reading this article, I actually had to look at the top of the page to make sure that someone didn’t slip in a page from The Onion into my Toronto Sun because I figured this had …
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Feb 12 2019
February 2019 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may have a little trouble sleeping tonight, knowing the brewing political storm that is blowing his way. In the wake of the demotion of Jody Wilson-Raybould from Justice Minister and Attorney General to Veterans Affairs Minister, allegations surfaced that Trudeau pressured Wilson-Raybould to help Quebec-based engineering firm SNC-Lavalin …
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Jan 31 2019
January 2019 On 11 January 2019, Canada lost a veteran broadcaster and addictions counselor who went beyond what anyone would expect. He truly cared helping addicts find their way to recovery and preventing them from going down the same path to destruction that should have killed him years before heart troubles and ultimately pneumonia finally …
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