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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The ruins of the notorious Atherley Arms Hotel

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December 2021 Anyone from the Ontario cottage-country town of Orillia will know the notorious Atherley Arms Hotel. Also known as The First, it has the Tudor-style building has served many functions in the century it has stood at the corner of Highway 12 and Creighton Street. From a hotel for weary travelers and workers in …

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The official end of an era for the OPP in Barrie

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December 2021 Although the Barrie Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) closed in November 2020, when it moved into a new building in Orillia, the demolition of the old building a year later really punctuates the end of an era. The OPP came to Barrie in 1946, when the Town of Barrie found the …

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Over to you, Charlie Brown

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December 2021 As we rapidly approach year three of two weeks to flatten the curve, I’m seriously thinking of changing my name to Charlie Brown. Maybe all of us should change our names to Charlie Brown, because of the pronouncements of the impending doom we are facing as we head into the Christmas holiday, I’m …

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Unassuming building once served as a bus terminal

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December 2021 All older towns and cities have buildings that have changed uses over the years, sometimes multiple times, particularly in the older parts of town. An unassuming, two-story building on Collier Street in Barrie, Ontario, one that currently houses a dental clinic and a bistro, looks like any other retail/residential building common to any …

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Trudeau is a coward and our allies have noticed

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December 2021 How hard can it be? There has been much debate as to whether Canada should boycott the upcoming Olympic Games in Beijing, either diplomatically or by refusing to send out athletes. U.S. President Joe Biden recently announced that America will diplomatically boycott the games, something that the Chinese Communist Party has already condemned, …

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The harsh reality of the Rittenhouse decision

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December 2021 Regarding the letter from Albert Sanders (4 December, Toronto Sun, Letters to the Editor): Does Mr. Sanders condemn the actions of Gaige Grosskreutz, who also went to the “protest” armed, in his case with a handgun? This is the same one that he pointed at Kyle Rittenhouse, just before he was shot in …

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Compassion & understanding can help those seeking the road to recovery

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Edited by Brittani Schroeder, Editor, Blue Line | Annex Business Media December 2021 I recently found out why a former friend had ended our friendship. I hadn’t seen or spoken to him in several years, for reasons of my own, so this was news to me. As he told me, it had to do with …

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Roxham Road resumes operations, in violation of the Canada – U.S. Safe Third Country Agreement

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November 2021 If you thought Roxham Road had outlived its purpose, you’d be wrong. The infamous Roxham Road, the now-officially-designated unofficial and illegal Point-of-Entry straddling the Canada-American border at Quebec and New York State, where economic migrants come to make their refugee claims in contravention of the Canada– U.S. Safe Third Country Agreement, has officially …

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Environmental activist David Suzuki faces severe backlash for his “warning”

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November 2021 Environmental activist David Suzuki’s recent statement on Victoria, B.C. television station CHEK, where he stated that “there are going to be pipelines blown up if our leaders don’t pay attention to what’s going on” with climate change, has been roundly condemned as a “dog whistle” to his fellow radical activists, with many expressing …

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Should we file this one under “It sounded good in theory?”

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November 2021 Infinity Development Group is proposing to build a condo tower on Waterdown Road in the Aldershot community of Burlington, Ontario, that will have limited parking for residents. Brandon Bradt, a consulting engineer on the project, addressed this issue by stating, “By reducing parking, you directly influence less vehicle ownership and promote the use …

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