Bruce Forsyth

October 6, 2022

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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Oct 06 2022

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

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October 6, 2022

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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Sep 27 2022

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 27, 2022

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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Sep 27 2022

The end of the COVID-19 Pandemic

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September 27, 2022

September 2022 For the first time, I agree with something the President Joe Biden has said, that being that the COVID-19 pandemic is over. This is some long overdue common sense, something that our own Prime Minister Blackface could emulate. Of course, this doesn’t mean that the COVID-19 virus is gone. There are many viruses …

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Sep 26 2022

Funeral for Toronto Police officer shot in brazen ambush shooting attracts thousands

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September 26, 2022

September 2022 On 21 September, over 10, 000 police officers, including officers from Quebec, Halifax and the United States, attended the funeral of Toronto Police Constable Andrew Hong. The 22-year police veteran was murdered in an ambush-style attack while getting coffee at a Tim Hortons in Mississauga. Hong leaves behind a wife Jenny and two …

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Sep 22 2022

City will review controversial video campaign to encourage vaccination of kids

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September 22, 2022

Published in the Toronto Sun, 30 September 2022 Re: “City hall quickly yanks vax campaign,” (Joe Warmington, Toronto Sun, 22 Sept): As Brad Ross puts it, it’s always a good idea to ensure that your communications are “…effectively reaching the right audience with the right message.” That’s great, but how about doing exactly that, …

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Sep 22 2022

Honouring police and peace officers who die from suicide – A conversation we need to have

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September 22, 2022

September 2022 Now that Toronto Police Constable Andrew Hong, viciously murdered in the line of duty, has been laid to rest after a full regimental police funeral, it’s a more appropriate time to address a very touchy and controversial subject: recognizing and honouring police and peace officers who die by suicide related to their service. …

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Sep 18 2022

Historic Central Park Carousel just one of the attractions in New York City’s celebrated urban park

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September 18, 2022

September 2022 The Central Park Carousel, known officially the Michael Friedsam Memorial Carousel, is a vintage carousel built by Solomon Stein and Harry Goldstein in 1908. It’s one of the largest merry-go-rounds in the United States, with 57 hand-carved horses (52 jumpers and 5 standers) and two chariots. Originally inside the trolley terminal at Coney Island, the …

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Sep 17 2022

The Battle of Ridgeway & the Battle of Chippawa remembered in Niagara Region

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September 17, 2022

September 2022 The Battle of Chippawa The Battle of Chippawa National Historic Site, along the Niagara River in Niagara Falls, Ontario, pays tribute to the British Forces, their American opponents and Aboriginal allies on both sides, who fought and died in the battle that would be part of the last major American invasion of Upper …

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Sep 17 2022

You are not alone

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September 17, 2022

September 2022 With the recent deaths of Constable Andrew Hong of Toronto Police and Constable Travis Gillespie of York Regional Police, it’s important to remember that there may be people, both police officers and civilians, who may be having a hard time dealing with their deaths. Friends and family need to watch for this and …

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