Bruce Forsyth

June 11, 2026

June 2026 On 7 June, the third annual Ontario Police Suicide Memorial service was held on the grounds of the Ontario Legislature at Queen’s Park in Toronto. Unlike the existing police memorial, which pays tribute to police officers killed in the line of duty, the Ontario Police Suicide Memorial pays tribute to those who died …

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Jun 09 2026

The Road Hammers headline the June edition of Barrie’s Troubadour Festival

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June 9, 2026

June 2026 It was a great Saturday afternoon and night on the Barrie waterfront on 6 June, as the 2026 edition of the Troubadour Festival kicked off with its line-up for June. Headlining the day-long festival, where it was country music day, were The Road Hammers, Canada’s hardest driving country music band, led by Barrie-born …

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Jun 08 2026

Time to ramp up the pressure on President Donald Trump

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June 8, 2026

June 2026 Okay America, I say enough with all the trade issues and tariffs. Americans need to admit that you need a good trade deal with Canada; maybe not as much as Canada needs one with you, but you still need us more than President Donald Trump is admitting, at least publicly. If President Trump …

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Jun 04 2026

Ghost Towns of Ontario – Cooper’s Falls

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June 4, 2026

June 2026 Ghost towns are “a once flourishing town wholly or nearly deserted usually as a result of the exhaustion of some natural resource,” as defined by Webster’s Dictionary. Cooper’s Falls is one of the many former villages in the Muskoka Region of southern Ontario that faded away after the logging industry declined. Along a …

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May 30 2026

Comfort Motel – Yet another old roadside motel becomes an abandoned relic of the road trip culture

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May 30, 2026

May 2026 Like many provincial highways across Ontario, Highway 11 was once dotted with roadside motels that catered to weary travellers. The highway originally stretched from Lake Ontario in Toronto to the Minnesota-Ontario border at Rainy River in northern Ontario, but the section south of Barrie has been downgraded to a municipal highway. The Comfort …

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May 29 2026

Prime Minister Mark Carney has an opportunity to quell Alberta separation – Will he?

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May 29, 2026

May 2026 – Published in the Toronto Sun, 20 June 2026 QUESTION OF SEPARATIONRe: “Danielle Smith started a fire and Alberta — and Canada — will suffer for it” (Warren Kinsella, May 27): While I do agree with Warren and Karl Belanger that Smith has opened up a messy can of worms by advocating for …

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May 22 2026

Bala Bay Inn – The historic Muskoka Inn enters its second century

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May 22, 2026

May 2026 Generations of families have always enjoyed getting away from the crowded cities and having a leisurely vacation in a relaxed, peaceful and serene environment, perhaps on a lake, with the sound of rustling leaves from tall, mature trees. For generations of Ontarians, the lure of the Muskoka, Algonquin and Haliburton Districts have been …

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May 08 2026

The future of Canada’s iconic Snowbirds air demonstration squadron in doubt

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May 8, 2026

Published in The Hamilton Spectator/Metroland Media, 9 May 2026 Opinion | We need to keep the Snowbirds flying With no replacement aircraft chosen, the future of the air demonstration squadron is in doubt. Mark Carney’s government has been subject to a lot of much deserved criticism for promising a lot and delivering very little other than …

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May 02 2026

Violence from the political left is the real danger

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May 2, 2026

Published in the Toronto Sun, 21 May 2026 SOME HONESTY ON PROGRESSIVE VIOLENCE Maybe it’s just me (well, no it isn’t, but just go with me), but Progressives seem to really like violence and destruction, especially for political purposes. So much of their rhetoric and talking points includes words like “smash,” “rage,” “rise up,” “resistance,” …

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Apr 29 2026

King Charles shows class at White House dinner during state visit to America

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April 29, 2026

April 2026 I find it rather interesting, and when I say interesting, I mean frustrating, that during the recent White House dinner, our Head of State, King Charles, stressed the value and importance of the “indispensable” partnership between the America and the United Kingdom. This in spite of the fact that relations between their two …

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