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October 2022 Fort Wellington National Historic Site is a historic military fortification, situated along the St. Lawrence River, in Prescott, Ontario, that once made-up part of the defence of British North America. Built towards the end of the War of 1812, when American forces attempted to take control of the British colonies of Upper and Lower …

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Not the time for a strike

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October 2022 Parents of school-age children can now breathe a sigh of relief that Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce has announced legislation to force a contract on CUPE workers and end any strike action before it even begins. Read the room CUPE; now is not the time for a strike. Parents are tired of the …

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Joel Stone Park – Honouring the founder of Ganonoque

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October 2022 Joel Stone Park, in the southern Ontario town of Ganonoque, is named in honour of the United Empire Loyalist and Militia officer who founded the town in 1789. Born in Guilford, Connecticut in 1749, Stone was given a 700-acre land grant in reward for his service to the British crown during the American …

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The most photographed house in Canada on borrowed time

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October 2022 A once grand house in the southern Ontario Township of Aldborough, south-west of London, is perhaps the most photographed house in Canada, but its days appear to be numbered. The heavily-weathered boards that enclose the house are deteriorating to such a degree that the east-side of the house is partially collapsed. Once covered …

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Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino is “Shocked!” about lack of RCMP transparency

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October 2022 With an apparent lack of self-awareness, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino is “Shocked! Shocked, to find that” the RCMP is displaying a lack of transparency by choosing not to release the badge numbers of the officers who cleared the protesters from the Ambassador Bridge blockade in Windsor last February. That’s the same Marco …

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Funeral for two fallen South Simcoe Police officers attended by thousands

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October 2022 Another month; another police funeral. This time, two constables with the South Simcoe Police Service, a small urban-rural police service, north of Toronto, Ontario, were both shot on 12 October, while attending a disturbance call from home in a residential area of the mostly-rural Town of Innisfil. Constables Morgan Russell, 54, and Devon Northrup, 33, were shot …

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Watcher in the Sky – Was the abandoned Brookfield Air Force Station the site of a UFO encounter?

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October 2022 Down at the end of a closed road, a series of ghostly-looking empty buildings sit silently crumbling and slowly being consumed by the elements and wildly growing vegetation. This collection of buildings once played an important role in the defence of North America. Formerly known as Brookfield Air Force Station, the U.S. Air …

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It should be all about personal choice, so why isn’t it?

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October 2022 We’re told that gas-powered cars are bad for the planet, so we all have to drive electric vehicles. We’re told that plastic shopping bags are also bad for the environment, so we have to use re-usable bags. electric vehicles have their own environmental issues, as do re-usable bags, which also have sanitary issues, …

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Windmill Point Lighthouse the site of a historic battle on Canadian soil

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October 2022 The lighthouse on the shore of the St. Lawrence River in Prescott, Ontario, stands a 60-foot-tall stone lighthouse tower, formerly a grist mill windmill, that played a role in the struggle between the “Family Compact” and the “Reformers” for control of the British colony of Upper Canada in the late 1830s. Known as …

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The Canadian Police & Peace Officers’ Memorial ceremony returns to Parliament Hill for the first time since the COVID-19 Pandemic outbreak

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September 2022 For the first time since September 2019, thousands of police and peace officers marched on Parliament Hill in Ottawa to honour officers killed in the line of duty. The previous two years saw the cancellation of the full memorial ceremony, due to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) virus pandemic, with only a small …

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