Feb 16 2021
February 2021 The small village of Varney, Ontario, an unincorporated village within the Municipality of West Grey, is known for two things: the Varney International Speedway, a 1/4 mile high banked short track motor racing oval, and the Varney Big Chair. The Varney Big Chair is a massively oversized Muskoka Chair (also known as an …
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Feb 14 2021
Published in the Toronto Sun, 16 February 2021 Re: “Ford promises $1 billion of your money for Hamilton’s LRT disaster,” (Brian Lilley, Toronto Sun, 13 February): Brian is right that the Hamilton LRT is a project that’s not wanted. Even my Liberal-supporting mother, who was raised in Hamilton and is a graduate of McMaster University, …
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Feb 11 2021
February 2021 While winter after the joy and colour of Christmas can be pretty dreary for some, for others, it’s the time to get creative. Two Barrie families have built giant snowmen in their front yards, much to the delight of area residents. Chad Hanna built a 17-foot-tall snowman on the front lawn of his …
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Feb 08 2021
February 2021 Canadian civil liberties seem to be under attack with the announcement that quarantine hotels have been established to “detain” those returning to Canada who don’t present a valid, negative test for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Virus. I have mixed feelings about the idea of quarantine hotels. With the CCP Virus still ravaging …
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Feb 07 2021
February 2021 The Cherry Beach Express is colloquial term, referring to an alleged practice by Toronto Police officers of escorting undesirable people/criminals late at night to Cherry Beach, an underpopulated area in the Port Lands of Toronto, where rough justice at the end of a billy-club would be administered. This practice dated back to the …
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Feb 06 2021
February 2021 Barrie Police has attracted national attention in recent days, with the news of an as of yet unidentified Barrie Police officer (I’ll refer to as Officer BP for now) involved in the arrest of 20-year-old Barrie resident Skyler Kent. Kent reportedly attracted police attention when he rode his skateboard through a red light, …
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Feb 02 2021
February 2021 As he promised in the American general election last year, newly-installed President Joe Biden made good on his promise to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline, an oil pipeline that would have taken Canadian bitumen from Alberta to refineries on the U.S. Gulf coast. Cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline shows why Canada needs …
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Feb 01 2021
February 2021 Published in Burlington Local News, 14 March 2022 The City of Burlington is a busy and rapidly growing city in the Golden Horseshoe area of southern Ontario. However, the sections of Burlington north of Dundas Street (formerly Kings Highway #5) are still rural, with busy farms, open fields and an abundance of livestock. …
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Feb 01 2021
February 2021 Congratulations to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on signing all the contracts he’s signed for vaccines to be delivered at some future date. You are a true hero to many Canadians and you deserve the Order of Canada for such an incredible accomplishment that few of us mere mortals could achieve. There are some …
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Jan 25 2021
January 2021 Anyone who has lived in the Hamilton-Burlington area of southern Ontario for the past 90 years has heard of Easterbrook’s Foot long Hot Dogs. Located in the Aldershot area of Burlington, near the world famous Royal Botanical Gardens, it’s been a favourite place for locals to gather and eat food since 1930. Housed …
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