Bruce Forsyth

December 10, 2022

December 2022 Councilor Shelley Carroll and Toronto District School Board (TDSB) Chair Rachel Chernos Lin should be ashamed for comments they made on Newstalk 1010 to host Jerry Agar, regarding the issue of the unprecedented violence in TDSB schools and the cancelling of the School Resource Officer (SRO) program, leading to the most violent year …

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Dec 07 2022

And just like that, it was gone – The decline of America’s Jewish Vacationland

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December 7, 2022

December 2022 Mention the Catskills to any Jewish person from eastern New York State, 40-years-old or older, you will likely inspire a flood of memories for them; of summers spent in the mountains with family and friends, either at a hotel or a bungalow colony, relaxing by a pool, participating in recreational sports, endless plates …

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Dec 01 2022

Emergencies Act hearings come to an end – Will Teflon Trudeau be held accountable?

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December 1, 2022

December 2022 OK, so the big take-away from the testimony of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his fellow ministers is that it doesn’t matter what the letter of the law is under the Emergencies Act, we are going to make up our own definition of what constitutes a national emergency. I’m hoping that Justice Paul …

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Nov 27 2022

And the award for tone-deafness goes to….

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November 27, 2022

November 2022 Published in the Toronto Sun, 5 December 2022 Re: The value of CBC (Toronto Sun, Letters to the Editor, 27 November): Wow! The chutzpah of Leon Mar, Director, Media Relations for CBC/Radio-Canada, is a perfect example of the sense of entitlement one would expect from a government or government-funded entity. While Mr. Mar …

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Nov 27 2022

To mask, or not to mask, it’s your choice

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November 27, 2022

November 2022 Re: “No More Masks” (The Hamilton Spectator, Letters to the editor, 24 November): If you want to keep wearing a mask for the rest of your life, go right ahead. You don’t need a government mandate; just wear one if you want, but no one should be forced or shamed into wearing one …

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Nov 22 2022

Gettysburg National Military Park and National Cemetery commemorate the pivotal Civil War battle

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November 22, 2022

November 2022 Gettysburg National Military Park, near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, is an open-air museum that preserves and tells the story of the pivotal battle fought during the American Civil War. Located at the actual battle site, the story of the battle, fought from 1 – 3 July 1863, is told using historical plaques, commemorative monuments to …

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Nov 14 2022

Going down the wrong road

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November 14, 2022

Published in the Toronto Sun, 19 November 2022 So let me get this straight: Toronto council has accepted the cost of $6.3 million to re-name Dundas Street and Yonge-Dundas Square? Is Mayor John Torry going to tell us with a straight face that this will be money well spent and that there is nothing more …

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Nov 13 2022

How I pictured you

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November 13, 2022

November 2022 A collection of my modeling photos.

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Nov 12 2022

Just adding a little context to CUPE’s “victory”

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November 12, 2022

November 2022 Not that I want to knock CUPE of their smug high-horse (OK, I do, but I still have a point), but a little context to Premier Doug Ford’s pledge to revoke Bill-28 is needed. CUPE turning this into a David & Goliath victory, but I’d like to argue that Doug Ford decided to …

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Nov 08 2022

The King’s Navy Yard – Historic Amherstburg park played a role in the defence of Upper Canada

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November 8, 2022

November 2022 The Canadian province of Ontario has numerous former British Army forts, preserved as National Historic Sites, that celebrate and depict the early days of British North America. While the Town of Amherstburg, at the south-western tip of Ontario, has one such historic fort, Fort Malden, there is also a small park along the …

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