Nov 11 2023
11 November 2023 Re: “Lest we forget: They made the ultimate sacrifice” (Toronto Sun Editorial, 11 November): I realize your list of Canadian involvement wasn’t meant to be a comprehensive list, but another to add to it is “The Great Escape.” While the 1963 movie was very entertaining, it was sadly historically incorrect. Many of …
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Nov 11 2023
November 2023 The Village of Ellenville, in the Catskills region of eastern New York State, is the home to a new museum, dedicated to showcasing the history of America’s Jewish Vacationland. The Borscht Belt Museum will commemorate and tell the story of the Borscht Belt, an era when millions of urban dwellers sought refuge in …
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Nov 06 2023
November 2023 Well, now that my supply of “single-use” plastic shopping bags is running low, I recently purchased some Glad Kitchen Catchers to line the garbage cans in my house. Yay, I’m saving the planet by not using “single-use” plastic shopping bags anymore!!! This is just another perfect example of “Political Environmentalism,” not the realistic …
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Nov 03 2023
November 2023 The City of Vaughan, in southern Ontario, a former rural township that grew up into a busy, vibrant city, has seen many changes since it was first surveyed in the early 19th Century. Back when horse and buggy travel was the primary mode of transportation for the average person, traveling great distances was …
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Nov 01 2023
Published in the Toronto Sun, 2 November 2023 Science Fiction Well, Justin Trudeau has officially confirmed what many of us have known for years: the decision to impose carbon taxes on Canadians is based on political science, not the scientific kind of science. By announcing that the carbon tax on home-heating oil will be lifted …
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Oct 30 2023
October 2023 Like many towns in Ontario, the railways were once a vital transportation link for the movement of people and goods in the days before the automobile and paved roads. Numerous railway line crisscrossed the country until motor vehicles and improved highways made the transportation of people and goods easier. Smaller railway companies went …
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Oct 26 2023
October 2023 Re: “MPPs should support Jama” ( Hamilton Spectator, Letters to the Editor, 21 Oct.): What part of Hamas has no interest in negotiating do Sara Jama and letter writer D. Scott McNie not seem to understand? This is not to disparage the average Palestinian Gaza residents who simply want to go about their day, go to …
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Oct 20 2023
October 2023 Shipping canals have been an important part of water-based transportation of people and goods for centuries. The Erie Canal is a 351-mile long historic canal in upstate New York, running east-west from the Hudson River at Waterford, north of Albany, to Lake Erie at Tonawanda. As with most canals, a series of locks were constructed …
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Oct 14 2023
October 2023 Since the early days of British North America, many towns and villages sprung up around rivers, where water-powered mills were built so that local farmers could easily transport their grain there to be milled. These communities were dependent on their local mill as bread was a staple part of the diet. Watson’s Mill is …
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Oct 13 2023
October 2023 During a historic visit to Canada’s Parliament by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on 24 September, now-former Speaker Anthony Rota stood up in the House of Commons to introduce Yaroslav Hunka, a resident of his North Bay riding sitting in the visitor’s gallery who is a “…Ukrainian war veteran from the Second World War …
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