Bruce Forsyth

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Name: Bruce Forsyth
Date registered: April 23, 2014
URL: https://militarybruce.com

Biography

Bruce Forsyth served in the Royal Canadian Navy Reserve for 13 years (1987-2000). He served with units in Toronto, Hamilton & Windsor and worked or trained at CFB Esquimalt, CFB Halifax, CFB Petawawa, CFB Kingston, CFB Toronto, Camp Borden, The Burwash Training Area and LFCA Training Centre Meaford.

Latest posts

  1. Captain of the Clouds – Owen Sound celebrates hometown hero Billy Bishop — October 16, 2026
  2. Tiger Dunlop’s Tomb and the Town That Never Was — October 8, 2026
  3. Abandoned railway station in Port Ben a lonely remnant of a long-vanished railway — October 8, 2026
  4. “Hate has no home here.” I say that’s bullshit. — October 8, 2026
  5. There shouldn’t have been ONE, but is there even ONE? – Canada Truth and Reconciliation Day remains contentious — October 4, 2026

Most commented posts

  1. Canadian Army Training Centres of WWII — 76 comments
  2. Canada should issue a Cold War Victory Medal to its military — 45 comments
  3. Watching the Skies – The RCAF Ground Observer Corps — 35 comments
  4. Lament for the PMQ? — 25 comments
  5. Camp Borden – The birthplace of the RCAF and the historic home of the Canadian Armoured Corps — 25 comments

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Nov 07 2017

Barrie’s Military Heritage Park officially dedicated

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November 7, 2017

November 2017 On 27 October 2017, Barrie’s Military History Park was formally dedicated by Mayor Jeff Lehman. The $1.57-million park, located just east of Southshore Centre along Kempenfelt Bay, honours and showcases the link between the City of Barrie and its ongoing relationship with CFB Borden and Canada’s military forces. Visitors can take a self-guided …

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Nov 03 2017

Pioneer woman’s gravesite remembered with city park

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November 3, 2017

November 2017 In the south-east corner of Barrie, Ontario, sits a small park sandwiched between Priscillas Place and Lockhart Road sits small corner park named J. Gibbons Park. All that one will find in this park are a lone grave and a monument stone telling the story of a woman named Jane (Young) Gibbins, the …

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Oct 28 2017

The great American clean-up, Part 2: Illegal dumping continues in Centralia

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October 28, 2017

October 2017 On 21 October 2017, EPCAMR (Eastern PA Coalition of Abandoned Mine Reclamation) organized another successful community clean-up in Centralia, Pennsylvania’s Lost Town. Since May 2014, EPCAMR (Eastern PA Coalition of Abandoned Mine Reclamation) has been organizing annual community clean-ups in Centralia, a borough in the heart of Pennsylvania’s anthracite coal region. Although the …

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Oct 06 2017

Why can’t carbon-based energy production be green?

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October 6, 2017

October 2017 Governments are always saying we need to “invest” in “green” technologies; we need to encourage “green” innovation.  We’ve come a long way in cleaning up our environment in the past without carbon taxes to encourage this innovation.  Why do we need them now? Back in the 1980s, acid-rain was a great threat and …

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Oct 06 2017

Where will our soldiers pug in their electric tanks?

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October 6, 2017

October 2017 “We don’t think there should be a carbon-based energy industry by the middle of this century.  The real alternative is not an alternative route. It’s an alternative economy.”  Gerald Butts, principal secretary to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in May 2012 when asked about the proposed route for the Northern Gateway pipeline. On 5 …

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Oct 06 2017

Things could be worse; but that doesn’t make it good

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October 6, 2017

Published in the Toronto Sun, 1 October 2017 Re: “Things could be worse,” (Omar Khan, Toronto Sun, September 25): Yes Mr. Khan, facts do matter and I’m glad that you pointed out that Ontario is the most indebted sub-sovereign jurisdiction. That fact does matter, even if Ontario’s fiscal and economic situation could be worse. However, …

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Sep 27 2017

When is a sure thing not a sure thing?

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September 27, 2017

September 2017 Although I’m a Conservative supporter and a supporter of Patrick Brown since he was a Member of Parliament, I’m not completely convinced that he can defeat Kathleen Wynne’s government in next year’s election. After 14 years of lies, increased taxes, scandals, criminal charges, debt that’s double what it was in 2003, the dumpster-fire …

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Sep 23 2017

Forgotten valour – The only Canadian soldier to win the Queen’s Scarf of Honour

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September 23, 2017

At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them. –For The Fallen by Robert Laurence Binyon September 2017 In the small Chelsea Pioneer Cemetery in Chelsea, Quebec, is the final resting place of a Canadian soldier and veteran of the South African War: Private Richard Rowland Thompson, who served with distinction …

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Sep 23 2017

There’s crisis in policing

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September 23, 2017

September 2016 Re:  Did boozy cop get off easy? (Michele Mandel, Toronto Sun, 14 September 2014); I had two reactions when I read this article.  The first was what is causing so many cops to drink, especially when we see first-hand the carnage that results (collisions, domestics, etc)?  The second was this could have been me …

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Sep 23 2017

Minimum wage increase will cost jobs

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September 23, 2017

Published in the Barrie Examiner, 27 September 2017 Re: “Opposition without solid solution disappointing (Peter Silveira, Barre Examiner, 14 September): I don’t think anyone disagrees with raising the minimum wage, especially at the rate of inflation. Obviously employers can’t pay their workers in 2017 the same wage they were paid in 1987. The major problem is …

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