Sep 06 2023
September 2023 In a column published recently in the Toronto Sun, columnist Lorne Gunter notes, in reference to comments by federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault, “Guilbeault criticized Atlantic Canadian regulators and refiners for passing on the cost of recent federal carbon and clean fuel tax increases – nearly 20% in the four eastern provinces – …
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Sep 04 2023
September 2023 On a small wooded property, sloping down to the shore of Lake Ontario, in Patterson Park in the west end of Kingston, sits an unassuming limestone house, boarded up but seemingly maintained to a certain degree. The house, known as the Peter Wartman House, is an example of an early Loyalist farmstead in …
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Sep 02 2023
September 2023 It’s been called the Forgotten War. For many years, Korean War veterans were denied entry to the Royal Canadian Legion branches across Canada. While veterans received a the United Nations Medal for Korea and the Korea Medal, neither were Canadian medals. It wasn’t until 1991 that the Canadian government officially issued its own …
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Aug 27 2023
August 2023 The Barrie Advance recently reported that a proposed affordable housing complex, located municipally at 115 Bayfield Street, has been put on hold, citing “rapid increases in construction costs and interest rates,” along with difficulty in securing additional financing to cover the current shortfall (“Proposed affordable housing complex on hold,” Chris Simon, Barrie Advance, …
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Aug 25 2023
August 2023 Re: “Calls for huge tax hikes as Toronto begins budget planning,” (Brian Lilley, Toronto Sun, 24 August): Wow, this is terrible news, what with the rising cost of everything already straining the budgets of the average Torontonian! If only someone had warned us during the election campaign that Olivia Chow would raise taxes! …
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Aug 25 2023
August 2023 All across the county, in small towns and the corners of bigger ones, many former mills still stand, and many of them have been restored and re-purposed into new commercial and residential buildings. The early settlers of North America built mills in their towns, usually beside rivers that would provide power by use …
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Aug 23 2023
August 2023 Fort Henry National Historic Site, located in Kingston, Ontario, is a historic fort that once played a big role in the defence of British North America, one of many that can still be found on the shore of Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. The original Fort Henry, named after Henry Hamilton, …
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Aug 21 2023
August 2023 An enthusiastic crowd gathered in a parkette across from the Post Office in the Hamlet of Mountain Dale, New York, on 13 August, for the dedication of a historical marker commemorating the Borscht Belt. This was the second of several historical marker dedications scheduled to take place this year and in 2024, in …
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Aug 21 2023
August 2023 Police officers frequently become desensitized to the tragedies that we see in the course of our duties. We can’t get too emotionally involved in the calls we attend, otherwise we wouldn’t be able to do our jobs for long. We compartmentalize, develop dark senses of humour and sometimes crack jokes that could be …
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Aug 20 2023
14 August 2023 Well, not exactly the world, but it was still big. It was 14 August 2003, when a widespread power outage hit the Northeastern and Midwestern parts of America, and a big part of the Canadian province of Ontario, beginning just after 4:10 p.m. EDST. Now known as the Northeast Blackout of 2003, it …
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