Jul 04 2022
July 2022 The Lister Block in downtown Hamilton, Ontario, is a stunning Classical Renaissance-style building that was given a new lease on life a decade ago, after sitting abandoned and deteriorating for the previous decade. Built in 1923 by Pigott Construction Company, the six-storey building features a double storey base with a façade of white …
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Jun 28 2022
June 2022 On 22 June, dozens of runners and walkers met at Riverfront Commons in Newmarket, Ontario, for the annual Rob Plunkett Memorial Torch Run in support of Special Olympics. Hosted by York Regional Police, participants can walk, run or ride the five-kilometre or 10-kilometre routes along the Tom Taylor Trail, all to raise money …
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Jun 25 2022
June 2022 Re: “PM’s single-use plastic ban is double trouble for taxpayers,” (Lorrie Goldstein, 23 June, Toronto Sun): As Lorrie points out, yet another Trudeau policy will result in great pain to the average Canadian, while reaping little to no benefit. Well, it will have one benefit, that being greater sales for the Glad Products …
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Jun 23 2022
June 2022 Carousels have been a popular amusement ride since the early 1800s, when John Joseph Merlin created a carousel in his Mechanical Museum in London in 1803. Originally serving as entertainment for London gentry and nobility, by the mid-1800s, they were a popular feature at fairs and carnivals. The inspiration for Merlin’s creation was …
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Jun 21 2022
June 2022 Now that Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault has announced that the federal government will ban single-use plastics by the end of 2023, I’m going to be buying stocks in the Glad Products Company. I have a feeling that sales of their kitchen catchers and garbage bags will skyrocket in 2024. Sources: Government will ban …
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Jun 21 2022
June 2022 Although I’m in favour of eliminating all mask mandates (wear one if you want to), including in the House of Commons, there is a delicious irony that our virtue-signaler-in-chief has turned wearing a mask in the House of Commons into a virtue-signaling exercise (Liberal wear them, at least on camera, because they love …
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Jun 16 2022
June 2022 Congratulations Chief Ramer. You just pained the entire Toronto Police Service as racists, including black officers, whom you are effectively calling as Uncle Toms. As Jamil Javani points out in his column “I do not accept Toronto Police Chief James Ramer’s apology, 16 June,” by labeling Toronto Police as systemically racist and insisting …
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Jun 16 2022
June 2022 As reported by the Associated Press: “Members of the House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol riot say they’ve uncovered enough evidence for the Justice Department to consider an unprecedented criminal indictment against former President Donald Trump for seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 election.” I hesitate to call them liars, as …
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Jun 16 2022
June 2022 In response to a letter submitted by Barrie-Innisfil MP John Brassard (MP says new luxury tax will ‘devastate’ manufacturing, Letter to the Editor, 9 June), columnist Peter Bursztyn wrote his own letter in response (Reader says luxury vehicle owners should pay more tax, Letter to the Editor, 11 June). Well, here is my …
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Jun 10 2022
June 2022 Looking out on Lake Kashagawigamog, there were once 17 lodges/resorts along this lake in the Haliburton Highlands area of central Ontario. Today, only the Bonnie View Inn remains, just as it has since opening in 1924. Situated on the southern side of Lake Kashagawigamog, this 28-room, four-season country inn resort has been family …
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