Bruce Forsyth

November 2025 I was looking for possible ways to honour the great, under-appreciated, former cabinet Minister, the Honourable Bev Oda. I’m not sure if it should be in the form of a public apology, a monument, the Order of Canada, or a formal portrait hanging in the office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer, but we …

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Brampton pays tribute to Terry Fox and his Marathon of Hope

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November 2025 On 24 July 1980, Terry Fox came to Brampton, Ontario, during his cross-Canada Marathon of Hope. Now, 45-years later, Mayor Patrick Brown, members of council, Fox family representative Jessie Alder and artist Christiano De Araujo gathered in Chinguacousy Park to unveil a monument Terry Fox, not far from Terry Fox Stadium. The monument …

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Pro-Hamas Palestinians conquer Toronto

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November 2025 I was sickened and disgusted by the Palestinian flag raising ceremony at Nathan Phillips Square on Monday. Besides the sick irony in that the square is named after Toronto’s first Jewish mayor, it was alarming to see supporters standing on the elevated platform where the flagpole sits, shouting “Free, free Palestine” and “From …

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Pro-Hamas agitators continue their antisemitic harassment of Jews in Toronto

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November 2025 Re: “Unvarnished Hatred” (Brian Passifiume, Toronto Sun, 11 Nov): A rather disturbing video was posted by independent journalist and lawyer Caryma Sa’d, showing a group of pro-Hamas agitators marching through a Jewish neighbourhood, is receiving a dismissive reaction from Toronto Police. Their official stance is that this march is to dismiss it as …

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Olivia Chow says the quiet part out loud

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November 2025 John Torry famously said in 2020 “…I would be very happy if this entire program didn’t result in any tickets being issued because people got the message that there was going to be a consequence to their irresponsible behaviour.” Now that Premier Doug Ford’s government has banned municipal photo radar, we have Mayor …

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Carney wants civil servants in uniform? Seriously?

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November 2025 According to a report in the Ottawa Citizen by David Pugliese on 10 November, Prime Minister Mark Carney wants to draft federal civil servants into the Canadian Armed Forces reserves? Would those be the same civil servants who have a problem coming back to the office 5-days-a-week? Those civil servants?! Seriously?! Did he …

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Be careful what you wish for

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November 2025 I’m continually amazed at the logic of some of the readers of The Hamilton Spectator. In his Letter to the Editor (“This is why we need electoral reform,” 11 November), Chris Cardey disparages our first-past-the-post system of government, claiming that Doug Ford’s government has a “false majority,” and this is why we need …

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First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

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November 2025 Well, it’s official. The new mayor of New York City is Zohran Mamdani, the 34-year-old New York State Assemblyman from New York’s 36th State Assembly district. It never ceases to amaze me how the useful idiots on the political left keep tightening the noose around their own necks and other liberal democracies by …

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Chaplain with a Bren Gun: RHLI Regimental Chaplain won the Victoria Cross at Dieppe

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Published in the Toronto Sun, 9 November 2025 (Updated). Previously published on militarybruce.com in October 2009 and in the Barrie Examiner, 9 August 2017. The Victoria Cross is the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to members of British and Commonwealth militaries in times of …

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Canada’s last Victoria Cross winner – Lieutenant Robert Hampton Gray, VC, DSC, RCNVR

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Published in the Toronto Sun, 10 November 2025 (Updated). Previously published in The Naval Reserve Link, September 2008. Lieutenant Robert Hampton Gray, VC, DSC, RCNVR has the distinction of being Canada’s last Victoria Cross winner. Gray, also known as Hammy, was born on 2 November 1917 in Trail, British Columbia to John and Wilhelmina Gray. …

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