Bruce Forsyth

July 2024 In many European, it’s common for cemetery graves to be re-used after as little as three to five years, long enough for the body of the deceased to decompose to a skeleton. After the “lease” on the grave expires, the bones are exhumed and either placed in a common ossuary, or cremated and …

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Champlain-Wendat Rotary Park pays tribute to early French explorers and the Huron-Wendat Peoples of Penetanguishene

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July 2024 Community parks are an important part of life in our cities and towns. Some are passive parks for relaxation, a place for sports activities, for special events, for children to play on play structures or part of a waterfront beach area, they play a role in the quality of life for residents and …

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Did you know that Stoney Creek has a warlock gravesite?

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July 2024 The southern Ontario City of Stoney Creek is known for many things, but one of their lesser-known having their own warlock. Coming from the Old English word “waerloga,” one who lies or breaks faith and is also a word for the Devil. They are a person, usually a man, who uses magic against …

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The ghost of Cedarena – Memories of skating under the stars

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July 2024 The buildings are boarded up; the boards that make up the oval enclosure are weathered and deteriorating, containing an overgrown space that once was a popular place to skate away the afternoon or evening. The chatter and excitement of crowds skating in circles under the overhead lighting have been replaced by silence, only …

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When was the last time you visited the Ontario Science Centre?

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July 2024 When the Ontario government announced on 21 June that the Ontario Science Centre’s Don Mills building was to be closed effective immediately, due to serious structural issues with the roof, there have been no shortage of protests and screeching voices declaring that the building must be saved and not demolished. People are acting …

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Why I’m renouncing my membership in the PC Party of Ontario

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July 2024 One of the things that has become very, very apparent is how far from classical liberalism the Liberal Party of Canada has drifted, to the almost cult-like following of Dear Leader, Justin Trudeau. Supporters seem incapable of acknowledging how far Trudeau has strayed from true liberal values and into a socialist worship cult, …

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Not with a bang, but a whimper

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July 2024 Well, University of Toronto, you have been proven to be massive chumps! Despite all their bluster, the pro-Hamas agitators who occupied your property for the past two months folded like wet lasagna noodles when faced with the possibility of being arrested by police. As this proves, you should have done the same thing …

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Not much Pride in Toronto

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Published in the Toronto Sun, 7 July 2024 Is it just me, or do others see the irony in the fact for the second time in recent years, the Pride Parade was literally stopped in its tracks by a competing protest movement? Pride began as a protest movement advocating for the rights of the gay …

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Restored historic Presbyterian Church the sole remnant of Auld Kirk Scotch Settlement

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July 2024 The Auld Kirk Scotch Settlement is long-gone, leaving only the Presbyterian Church, which sat abandoned for over half a century. This small church is one of many that can still be found across the rural landscape. When driving along the rural sideroads across Canada and America, you will still see the occasional old, …

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The Dupont Street building where Ford once built their legendary Model T

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July 2024 Despite what some believe Henry Ford and the Ford motor company weren’t the ones who created the gas powered automobile. That distinction goes to Carl Benz, who created the first gas powered automobile in 1885, fifteen years after a small gas powered motor was placed on a car, proving it could be used …

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