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. Kutsher’s Hotel and Country Club – The Last Catskills Resort  — July 31, 2026
  2. Wearing a hijab should always be a choice — July 30, 2026
  3. An old log cabin on the edge of a city- The lone remnant of a failed business venture — July 27, 2026
  4. Just say the line, Marit — July 27, 2026
  5. Forgotten Borscht – Where summer memories were once made are now littered with ruins — July 27, 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. Camp Borden – The birthplace of the RCAF and the historic home of the Canadian Armoured Corps — 25 comments
  5. Lament for the PMQ? — 23 comments

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Apr 25 2008

Striking the Balance

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April 25, 2008

This is a question that I submitted to Duran Duran’s web site (www.duranduran.com). “Ask Katy” section.  It also appears in the book “Would someone please explain?:  The best of Duran Duran’s Ask Katy” by Katy Krassner.   26 April 2008   I have a question for the band. Having written so many enduring, classic songs, …

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Apr 14 2008

Try enforcing the law

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April 14, 2008

Published in the Barrie Advance 15 April 2008 Toronto Mayor David Miller’s continued insistence that a (Canada-wide) ban on handguns is the solution to the gun violence plaguing Toronto is nothing more than shameless political grandstanding. Does Mayor Milleuble for using a BANNED handgun? They are willing to kill people with those guns! Mayor Miller, …

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Mar 28 2008

Make TTC special constables full police officers

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March 28, 2008

March 2008   In light of the recent shooting at the Spadina subway station (Witness to a shooting, March 29), it’s high time the Toronto Transit Commission Special Constables were given full police status and armed. Currently, as unarmed Special Constables, they are Peace Officers and as such have the authority of a Police Officer …

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Mar 18 2008

Soldier would serve in Afghanistan again

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March 18, 2008

Published in the Barrie Advance   19 March 2008   If there is one word that describes Jordan Webb, it would be modest. The 24-year-old Beeton resident and corporal with Barrie’s Grey & Simcoe Foresters completed a tour of duty in Afghanistan last year with the 1st Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment Battle Group. While …

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Mar 18 2008

Air Force Annex of the Base Borden Museum named after V.C. winner

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March 18, 2008

    Barrie Advance 7 March 2008   The Maple Leaf 19 March 2008   16 Wing Royal Canadian Air Force web site 27 March 2012   Esprit de Corps June 2016   Alan Arnett MacLeod was a tenacious 14 year old with a dream. Today, he and his dream are remembered at Canadian Forces …

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Mar 10 2008

Give me a March break

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March 10, 2008

March 2008 In the aftermath of a massive snowsttorm dumping over a foot of snow on Barrie, I felt compelled to write this letter to personally thank my Toronto Sun carrier for waiting until the Monday, March 10, after the storm to deliver my paper (no I’m not being sarcastic, I really mean it).

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Feb 26 2008

OPP policed Barrie for a decade

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February 26, 2008

    Published in the Barrie Advance February 2008   Published in the Canadian Police Insignia Collector’s Association Newsletter September 2008   The Barrie Police Service, in Barrie, Ontario, is the fourth oldest police force still in existence in Ontario, after the Kingston Police Service (1841), the Hamilton Police Service (1833) and the Brockville Police …

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Feb 04 2008

Sacrifice goes unrecognized

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February 4, 2008

Published in the Toronto Sun 30 January 2008 Published in the Blue Line Magazine February 2008 With the recent victory in the campaign to get Cobourg Police Constable Chris Garrett nominated for the Police Cross of Valour, we must not overlook another battle to honour a deserving police officer for his service to his country …

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Jan 07 2008

Canadian soldier kills Taliban fighter

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January 7, 2008

January 2009 Regarding, Joe Warmington’s column, Canadian Soldier Kills Taliban (3 January 2009), I would like to add that although we don’t know exactly what happened, this could be a case of history repeating itself. Anyone not familiar with the story of Lt. Harry “Breaker” Morant, a veteran of the South Africa (Boer) War, should …

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Dec 06 2007

The Grey and Simcoe Foresters – Barrie’s own infantry regiment

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December 6, 2007

Published in Essa Times 7 December 2008 The Grey & Simcoe Foresters have been a fixture in Barrie since they were formed on 15 December 1936, when The Grey Battalion from Owen Sound and Barrie’s The Simcoe Foresters amalgamated. However, Barrie’s military history goes back much further. Barrie’s first militia units were two small rifle …

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