October 2019 HMCS Haidia, the last surviving Royal Canadian Navy Tribal-class destroyer, has been called the “Fightingest Ship in the Royal Canadian Navy;” a ship that sank the most enemy surface tonnage of any other ship in the Royal Canadian Navy. Celebrated RCN Vice-Admiral Henry “Harry” DeWolf, CBE, DSO, DSC, CD, was the first commanding …
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Oct 23 2019
Blackface and moral corruption for everyone
October 2019 Well, apparently, it’s OK to wear blackface and be morally corrupt. In a disappointing, but not surprising election result, Prime Minister Blackface gets to remain Canada’s head of government for at least another 2 years. By winning a minority government, it appears that progressives have decided to reward the first sitting prime minister …
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Oct 21 2019
The lost town of Alvira – The sad story behind the abandoned Bunkers of Alvira
October 2019 About four miles north-west of the Borough of Allenwood, Pennsylvania, is the Town of Alvira. Now a ghost town, this once bustling community is now known as the home of the United States federal prison, Federal Correctional Complex, Allenwood. For urban explorers, there is a different reason to go to this deserted town: …
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Oct 21 2019
Centralia clean-up a popular annual event
October 2019 For the 6th year in a row, volunteers descended upon Pennsylvania’s “Lost Town,” the Borough of Centralia, a mostly-vacant borough with an underground mine fire that has been burning beneath it for 57 years and counting. Organized by the non-profit organization EPCAMR (Eastern PA Coalition of Abandoned Mine Reclamation), since its inception in …
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Oct 18 2019
If these walls could talk – Historic county jails offer an insight into the past of crime & punishment
October 2019 Have you ever wondered what it’s like is jail, but didn’t want to go through the bother of committing a crime? Well, the good news is that there are many former jails and penitentiaries that are open for public tours. Some, like the former Carleton County Jail in Ottawa, Ontario, also double as …
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Oct 06 2019
Victory Village – A neighbourhood with a historic connection to Canada’s aviation industry
October 2019 Victory Village is a residential neighbourhood in Mississauga, Ontario, with a historic connection to Canada’s aviation industry. Situated in the former Village of Malton, next to Toronto Pearson International Airport, the neighbourhood had its beginnings during World War II, when Canada played a vital role in aircraft production for the war effort. In …
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Oct 05 2019
Time to stop this climate hysteria
October 2019 Regarding letter writer Carol Bell’s letter (Climate crisis must be faced, 3 October, Barrie Advance): How smoggy is the sky in her world? This climate hysteria has to stop. Look, we all want a clean environment with smog-free air, clean water sources and our trash properly and safely disposed of, but all this …
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Oct 01 2019
At what point do you cut up the credit card?
September 2019 The latest promise to come out the Justin Trudeau election machine is to promise deficit spending of $20 billion over the next four years, along with disparaging Conservatives like Andrew Scheer and Doug Ford for wanting to cut spending. Oy vey! Trudeau must really think Canadians are a bunch of schmucks, which we …
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Oct 01 2019
No mention of officers who took their own lives at annual memorial service
October 2019 On 29 September, I attended the annual Canadian Police and Peace Officer Memorial ceremony in Ottawa, something I have done most years since 1997, missing only 2011, when I went to New York City for their 9-11 Ceremony and 2018, when I went to Albany, NY, for their annual Peace Officer Memorial ceremony. …
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Sep 23 2019
This is getting out of control!!
September 2019 Published in Metroland Media newspapers, 24 October 2019 This is getting out of control!! No, not climate change; the abuse of this child, Greta Thunberg. She is being emotionally abused by all those elite UN global warming hypocrites who applauded her speech. Let her go back home, go to school and hang out …
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