Bruce Forsyth

November 23, 2021

November 2021 In an era when a horse and buggy was the primary mode of daily transportation for the majority of residents, travelling even relatively short distances took hours. Travelling long distances to school was out of the question for most children living in rural areas. For that reason, one-room schoolhouses were strategically scattered throughout …

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Nov 19 2021

An “exemplary” police officer spared a criminal record

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November 19, 2021

November 2021 Back in September, Justice Michelle Fuerst passed sentence on retired Barrie Police Sergeant Michael Chytuk, who had earlier this year, pleaded guilty to careless use of a firearm. Justice Fuerst granted an absolute discharge to the former sergeant, sparing him a criminal record, despite his guilty plea. He doesn’t even get probation or …

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Nov 16 2021

The $10 Wedge-Issue – What to do about the high cost of daycare

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November 16, 2021

November 2021 Justin Trudeau seems desperate for a legacy, any legacy, and right now he seems to be pinning it on a nationwide $10 per day daycare. Call me cynical, but I know Canadian taxpayers are going to end up with the short-end on this one, and I’m not just talking about the heavy tax …

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Nov 14 2021

Disappointing that Barrie didn’t have an official Remembrance Day service at the city’s cenotaph

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November 14, 2021

November 2021 On Remembrance Day 2021, a crowd of more than 3,000 gathered at Toronto’s Cenotaph out front of Old City Hall on Queen Street. The crowd, that included current and former military, dignitaries and ordinary citizens, listened to guest speaker Marvin Gord, a 100-year-old RCAF veteran who served as a radar specialist during World …

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Nov 10 2021

Don Valley Elevated Wetland Structures – A mix of art and the environment

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November 10, 2021

November 2021 In Toronto’s Don Valley, sit three large, white sculptures that look either like the lower half of an elephant or giant teeth. These sculptures are known as the Elevated Wetlands Sculpture, a functional art display, installed in the summer of 1998, that brings together the plastics industry, the artistic community, and environmental stewardship. …

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Nov 09 2021

The building that was once Barrie’s smallest stand-alone variety store

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November 9, 2021

November 2021 A small non-descript building on Owen Street in Barrie, Ontario, surrounded by modest pre-war and post-war family homes, has the unique distinction of once being the smallest stand-alone variety store in the city. Opened around 1949 by Henry Bauldry, the store, appropriately named Bauldry’s, sold just about everything that you would expect from …

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Nov 09 2021

Two years later, the Mohawk Inn and Conference Centre has yet to be re-born

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November 9, 2021

November 2021 The much-loved Mohawk Inn & Conference Centre in Milton, Ontario, closed its doors on 15 December 2019, with the intention of demolishing the existing 52-year-old building, so that a new, modern building could rise in its place. Opened on 3 June 1967, the Mohawk Inn was designed as an early Canadian colonial-style Inn. …

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Oct 31 2021

The historic Adamson Estate & Pet Cemetery is a treasure for Port Credit

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October 31, 2021

October 2021 There are many historic homes in the Greater Toronto Area of southern Ontario. One that is the jewel of the Port Credit area of Mississauga is the Adamson Estate. Situated along the shore of Lake Ontario, on land originally owned by Joseph Cawthra, the name-sake of Cawthra Road, in 1809, it was passed …

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Oct 22 2021

Historic CP Railway station a remains a part of North Bay’s railway heritage

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October 22, 2021

The former Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) station, near the waterfront in North Bay, Ontario, dates back to the golden era of the railways in Canada; a time when railway stations were grand, with architecturally stunning designs. Built in 1903, in the Richardson Romanesque style, the two-storey building was the third station built on the site. …

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Oct 21 2021

OPP dedicates monument to officers lost to suicide

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October 21, 2021

October 2021 On 15 October 2021, the Ontario Provincial Police dedicated a monument outside their headquarters in Orillia, dedicated to officers who lost their lives to job-related suicide, “…whose deaths were related to the line of duty, rather than (in) the line of duty.” The outdoor monument consists of a memorial gazebo, with a round …

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