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January 2025 Palermo Within the boundaries of the busy Town of Oakville, Ontario, are the remains of several former villages and hamlets. In the years after what was then known as Trafalgar Township was surveyed in 1806, one of three townships that were created after the purchase of land from the Mississauga Nations the previous …

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Ontario Afghanistan Memorial pays tribute to Canada’s longest armed conflict

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January 2024 On Remembrance Day in 2020, an addition was made to the Ontario Veterans’ Memorial, on the south lawn of the Ontario Legislature, to commemorate the Afghanistan War. The Afghanistan Memorial recognizes the participation of Canadians who served during the mission to free Afghanistan from control of the Taliban. Designed by landscape architectural firm …

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Screw the West?! Not this time!

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January 2025 As pointed out in the Toronto Sun editorial from 11 January 2025 “Cinderella will go to the inaugural ball,” Alberta stands to lose the most from Trump’s threatened 25% tariffs on all things Canadian. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, just like his father Pierre, has always made sure Alberta gets screwed as much as …

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Wasaga’s Beach Area One will lose the iconic Dardanella in massive re-development

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January 2025 Music, dancing, food and a great waterfront view. The southern Ontario resort community of Wasaga Beach has been a popular recreation and vacation destination for over a century. Now, a massive re-development plan at Beach area One will see the demolition of several of the old, wood buildings along Beach Drive, including the …

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Bike Lanes shouldn’t take away active traffic lanes

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January 2025 In October 2024, Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government tabled a bill that would require municipalities to ask the province for permission to install bike lanes if it involves removing a lane of vehicle traffic. Ford also began the process of removing bike lanes on Yonge, Bloor and University and restoring them as lanes …

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Hamilton’s Chedoke Sanatorium now just a memory

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December 2024 One of the newest residential neighbourhoods in Hamilton, Ontario, is known as Chedoke Heights. Consisting of upscale, three-storey townhomes, the Chedoke Heights property bears no resemblance to its former function as Chedoke Hospital, a sanitarium for tuberculosis (TB) patients that opened in 1906. Chedoke had very humble beginnings, starting as a two tent …

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Trail of the Caribou – Ontario beach town played a role in historic flight

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December 2024 The southern Ontario town of Wasaga Beach has the distinction of having the world’s longest fresh water beach, spanning 10 miles. The beach community has another distinction of being the starting point in a record-breaking aviation milestone. The appeal of Wasaga Beach for both aviators was its naturally long, straight beach, which provided …

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Memorial in North York pays tribute to the victims and survivors of the Holocaust

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December 2024 The Canadian Society for Yad Vashem (CSYV) Holocaust Memorial Site in North York is a monument dedicated to the memory of victims and survivors of the Holocaust. Containing almost 5,000 names, it is the most extensive listing of any memorial site in Canada. The monument was built in three phases over a period …

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Former S.S. No. 4 school house in Craighurst faces an unknown fate

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December 2024 When travelling across the rural roads of Ontario, former thriving villages like Craighurst can be found at both busy and desolated crossroads. Situated at the corner of Simcoe County Road 93, also known as Penetanguishene Road, and Horseshoe Valley Road, Craighurst was one of these small villages, many of which grew up along …

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Relic of a long defunct hydro generation company found in Erindale Park

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December 2024 Across many older towns and cities, ruins of structures from the past can occasionally be found, crumbling and forgotten, hidden by vegetation Erindale Park, found in the Erindale area of Mississauga, Ontario, is a community park complete with a playground for children, picnic areas and miles of walking trails in and around the …

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