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. Toronto Blue Jays fans outraged at excessively high ticket re-sale prices — October 23, 2025
  2. Rebel News celebrates 10 years of telling “The Other Side of The Story” — October 20, 2025
  3. It appears Peace Through Strength is a better tactic than appeasement – Trump gets peace in Gaza — October 14, 2025
  4. The cold, hard truth about the $10 a day daycare — October 9, 2025
  5. Barrie Allandale Transit Terminal opens in a historic transportation location — October 5, 2025

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. Claresholm Industrial Airport has rich military past — 23 comments

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When political pronouncements go against economic realities

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August 2023 The Barrie Advance recently reported that a proposed affordable housing complex, located municipally at 115 Bayfield Street, has been put on hold, citing “rapid increases in construction costs and interest rates,” along with difficulty in securing additional financing to cover the current shortfall (“Proposed affordable housing complex on hold,” Chris Simon, Barrie Advance, …

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Hammer Time!

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August 2023 Re: “Calls for huge tax hikes as Toronto begins budget planning,” (Brian Lilley, Toronto Sun, 24 August): Wow, this is terrible news, what with the rising cost of everything already straining the budgets of the average Torontonian! If only someone had warned us during the election campaign that Olivia Chow would raise taxes! …

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Historic Babcock Mill – An important part of Loyalist Township’s rich history

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August 2023 All across the county, in small towns and the corners of bigger ones, many former mills still stand, and many of them have been restored and re-purposed into new commercial and residential buildings. The early settlers of North America built mills in their towns, usually beside rivers that would provide power by use …

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Old Fort Henry – The Citadel of Upper Canada now a popular tourist attraction

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August 2023 Fort Henry National Historic Site, located in Kingston, Ontario, is a historic fort that once played a big role in the defence of British North America, one of many that can still be found on the shore of Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. The original Fort Henry, named after Henry Hamilton, …

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Borscht Belt Historical Marker Project formally commemorates the Borscht Belt’s vibrant history

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August 2023 An enthusiastic crowd gathered in a parkette across from the Post Office in the Hamlet of Mountain Dale, New York, on 13 August, for the dedication of a historical marker commemorating the Borscht Belt. This was the second of several historical marker dedications scheduled to take place this year and in 2024, in …

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Remembering Colleen Lantz – A wife and mother’s final act likely saved her infant son

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August 2023 Police officers frequently become desensitized to the tragedies that we see in the course of our duties. We can’t get too emotionally involved in the calls we attend, otherwise we wouldn’t be able to do our jobs for long. We compartmentalize, develop dark senses of humour and sometimes crack jokes that could be …

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The day we went dark 20 years ago – The Northeast Blackout of 2003

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14 August 2023 Well, not exactly the world, but it was still big. It was 14 August 2003, when a widespread power outage hit the Northeastern and Midwestern parts of America, and a big part of the Canadian province of Ontario, beginning just after 4:10 p.m. EDST. Now known as the Northeast Blackout of 2003, it …

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There never was an Arrow – Canada’s legendary jet fighter lives on at Edenvale Aerodrome

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Published in Springwater News, 21 August 2023 “As a fighting instrument of war, which must include an aircraft, an engine and a sophisticated fire-control system, then of course there never was an Arrow.” – David Golden, LLB, LLD (Honours), OC, former Deputy Minister of Defense Production, Deputy Minister of Industry and the first president of …

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Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow needs to drop the Dundas Street issue

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August 2023 Re: “Hit the road, Chow” (Brian Lilley, Toronto Sun, 15 August): Mayor Chow, I would like to administer a little self-awareness test to you. I would agree with your proposal to re-name Dundas Street, if you and any of the other councilors who support this idiotic idea to re-name Dundas Street, all agree …

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The end of the road for Kingston Family FunWorld

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August 2023 What started as a rural drive-in theatre in 1966, north of Kingston on McAdoo’s Lane, would later be transformed into a small outdoor entertainment centre in the mid 1990s. Now, it’s all gone, with the property awaiting re-development. The Drive-In opened in 1966, as The 66, with the Mustang Drive-In chain buying the …

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