Bruce Forsyth

January 2020 In the south-east corner of the Parkwood Institute Mental Health Care property in London, Ontario, sits a cluster of four buildings; three that are still in use and one boarded up and deteriorating, along with a small, dilapidated guard shack. This is the remains of the Western Counties Health and Occupational Centre. Formerly …

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The Whistler’s Mother Statue – Coal mining town honours their mothers

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January 2020 In 1937, the Ashland Boys’ Association in the anthracite coal mining town of Ashland, Pennsylvania, came up with a unique way of honouring their mothers and mothers across America: an eight-foot bronze statue sitting on a hill overlooking the downtown area of Ashland. The statue is based on an oil painting by James …

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RIP Zenith TV – 1989-2020

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January 2020 Today, I said goodbye to a friend I’ve had since my second year in university. My Zenith 19” TV. I have many fond memories of Zenith. I watched many great movies and television shows on this radiation box, including the very first episode of The Simpsons. Zenith moved with me from city to …

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The National Holocaust Monument honours the six million Jews who perished

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January 2020 On 27 September 2017, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau officially dedicated the National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa, Ontario. The high, stark, white concrete walls of varying angles that make up the monument, sit on almost an acre of land on LeBreton Flats, across from the Canadian War Museum. The National Holocaust Monument, which …

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The unique locks of the Trent-Severn Waterway

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December 2019 The Trent–Severn Waterway, a 386-kilometre-long canal in southern Ontario connecting Lake Ontario at Trenton to Georgian Bay at Port Severn. Originally surveyed as a military shipping route, the canal had its beginning in 1832 when construction began at Trenton. Unfortunately, access from Balsam Lake near Kirkfield, to Lake Simcoe was blocked until the …

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Jumbo the Elephant – The “pride” of St. Thomas

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December 2019 Statues are a common way to commemorate notable people and animals throughout history, and many cities and towns feature an assortment of them. St. Thomas, Ontario, has a statue with an unfortunate significance for the southwestern Ontario town: Jumbo the Elephant. In a time before television or even motion pictures became avenues of …

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Muddy the Mudcat – The pride of Dunnville

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December 2019 The southern Ontario town of Dunnville has a unique mascot: the Dunnville Mudcat, “Muddy.” At 50- foot long, and 27-foot high, the statue of “Muddy” is the world’s biggest Mudcat, designed by Mike Walker, a local artist and businessman. The Mudcat has long been associated with Dunnville, which can be caught by anglers …

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Baby, you are missing the point of this song

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December 2019 With the release of another cover version of the classic song, “Baby, it’s cold outside” back in October, this time by John Legend and Kelly Clarkson, for Legend’s latest album, “A Legendary Christmas,” the debate about the song is back in the fore-front. Since 2009, this classic song, written in 1944 by Frank …

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Shockingly light sentence for the boys convicted in the St. Michael’s College School broomstick rape of fellow student

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December 2019 The three accused former St. Michael’s College students convicted in the brutal broomstick sodomy rape of a fellow St. Michael’s student, one that was videotaped and shared among their peers, received their sentence in a Toronto courtroom on 19 December and it has provoked outrage for its leniency. The three teens, whose identities …

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The Screaming Heads – A unique art exhibit in the Almaguin Highlands

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December 2019 Artists are always looking for unique way to display their art and Almaguin Highlands artist Peter Camani seems to have found a very unique way to display his sculpture work titled, “The Screaming Heads.” Camani, a retired art teacher who has art works hanging in The Vatican and Buckingham Palace, used his property …

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