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. Playhouse Cinema still entertaining Hamilton into its second century — April 6, 2026
  2. Hamilton’s connection to the Irish Potato Famine remembered with waterfront monument — April 3, 2026
  3. No, the moment has not arrived for Canada to seriously consider a wealth tax — March 31, 2026
  4. Green industry not ready for prime time yet — March 28, 2026
  5. Now is not the time for scoring political points — March 26, 2026

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. Lament for the PMQ? — 23 comments

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Chaplain with a Bren Gun: RHLI Regimental Chaplain won the Victoria Cross at Dieppe

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Published in the Toronto Sun, 9 November 2025 (Updated). Previously published on militarybruce.com in October 2009 and in the Barrie Examiner, 9 August 2017. The Victoria Cross is the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to members of British and Commonwealth militaries in times of …

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Canada’s last Victoria Cross winner – Lieutenant Robert Hampton Gray, VC, DSC, RCNVR

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Published in the Toronto Sun, 10 November 2025 (Updated). Previously published in The Naval Reserve Link, September 2008. Lieutenant Robert Hampton Gray, VC, DSC, RCNVR has the distinction of being Canada’s last Victoria Cross winner. Gray, also known as Hammy, was born on 2 November 1917 in Trail, British Columbia to John and Wilhelmina Gray. …

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Canada’s Prime Minister Spineless proves he is a massive schmuck by bowing down to world leaders

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November 2025 So, in the space of a few days, Canada’s “Great White Hope,” Prime Minister Mark Carney, has bowed down to Chinese PM Xi Jinping and apologized to President Donald Trump for the very accurate anti-tariff advertisement featuring former President Ronald Regan. It’s debatable whether it was a wise strategy to produce this advertisement, …

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Lech Wałęsa – A hero in the fight for freedom behind the Iron Curtain

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October 2025 To anyone who was aware of the Cold War struggles behind the Iron Curtain, the name Lech Wałęsa is synonymous with the fight for freedom. As the co-founder of the Solidarity trade-union (Solidarność in Polish) in the Lenin Shipyard, in the northern Polish city of Gdańsk, Wałęsa became an international figure in the …

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Toronto Blue Jays fans outraged at excessively high ticket re-sale prices

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October 2025 Regarding the high prices for Blue Jays tickets on the resale market, the only way the price insanity is going to end is if people stop buying them, plain and simple. In reality, all products and services are only worth what people are willing to pay for them. If people refuse to pay …

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Rebel News celebrates 10 years of telling “The Other Side of The Story”

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October 2025 Rebel News celebrated the 10th anniversary of their founding in Toronto, Ontario, on 16 October. Originally known as The Rebel, Rebel News was founded as an internet-based news outlet by Ezra Levant and Brian Lilley, out of the ashes of the Sun News Network, where they both worked for almost 4 years. Sun …

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It appears Peace Through Strength is a better tactic than appeasement – Trump gets peace in Gaza

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October 2025 On tonight’s menu is a delightful dinner featuring crow as the main course, with humble pie for desert. What do you do when, after chanting “Free, Free Palestine/Gaza” for the past 2 years in the streets of Canada and America, you here the voices of the Gazans chanting President Donald Trump’s name in …

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The cold, hard truth about the $10 a day daycare

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October 2025 The cold, hard truth is that there is no such thing as $10 a day daycare. It simply doesn’t exist. Daycare costs what it costs the provider, plus a profit margin, something that is necessary for the continued operation of any business, including a daycare. The only way that providers can charge parents …

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Barrie Allandale Transit Terminal opens in a historic transportation location

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October 2025 A new transit terminal opened in Barrie, Ontario, on 21 September, replacing the now-closed downtown transit terminal. The location of the new Barrie Allandale Transit Terminal has a long history of transportation, occupying a portion of the former Canadian National Railway lands on the shore of Kempenfelt Bay, once a large, important railway …

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There can be no Reconciliation, without Truth – My reflections on the 5th annual Truth & Reconciliation Day

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September 2025 An absence of balance. That’s what I see with much of the talk regarding the Indian Residential Schools. A recent column written by Sean Carleton, associate professor in the Departments of History and Indigenous Studies at the University of Manitoba, and Benjamin Kucher, a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology at the University …

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