Bruce Forsyth

27 December 2004 – Never was; never will be; 16 years on.

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W.A. Fisher name should be retained

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Published in the Barrie Advance/Metroland Media 27 December 2020 Although Barrie City Council has now decided to demolish the W.A. Fisher Auditorium, that doesn’t mean the name has to die with it. May I suggest that any new performance facility be named after W.A. Fisher. Even if council wants to sell the naming rights, following …

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If Canadians are done with Trump over the Communist Chinese Party Virus, how do they feel about Trudeau?

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December 2020 So, letter writer Dave McDaniel is “Done with Trump,” Toronto Sun Letters to the Editor, 26 December), holding him responsible for the current state of America because, “He let people die knowing about a deadly virus…” I too feel that many politicians in many countries have dropped the ball, to one degree or …

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Canadian connection to “the largest ship in the world”

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December 2020 The name of the Steam Ship (S.S.) Great Eastern may not mean a lot to those with no interest in maritime history, but when it was launched on 31 January 1858, it was the largest ship ever built at the time. It was also the first ship to be powered by both sail …

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When Armouries were like castles

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November 2020 Today, many institutional buildings today are little more than boxes with smooth surfaces, usually with exterior cladding of metal sheets or panels, and interiors of drywall and cinder blocks. There are rarely any ornate carvings and designs on the exterior walls, or hand-carved woodworking on the interior, as seen in many of the …

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Paisley’s Stark Mill faces an uncertain future

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December 2020 All across the county, in small towns and the corners of bigger ones, many former mills still stand, and many of them have been restored and re-purposed into new commercial and residential buildings. The early settlers of North America built mills in their towns, usually beside rivers that would provide power by use …

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Governments blew their chance to contain the CCP Virus

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December 2020 With the approaching Christmas holiday, we are receiving doom and gloom lectures and scolding from public health officials and our political leaders. All are predicting a rise in infections of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Virus, which is very likely to happen. The CCP Virus is a term preferred by The Epoch Times, …

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Abandoned pet cemetery was Canada’s first such resting place for animal companions

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December 2020 In 1983, horror author Stephen King published a book called Pet Sematary, which was turned into a movie six years later. While the cemetery in this story has supernatural powers that results in a horrific outcome, there actually are some pet cemeteries out there. Of the few that do exist, the first one …

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The Peninsular Park Hotel – Innisfil’s long-vanished luxury resort

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December 2020 Muskoka has traditionally been the summer vacation destination for Ontarians looking to escape the city for decades. Some headed to luxury resorts, while many more of lesser means headed to more “affordable” destinations. This was a time period when summer vacations were a luxury that many who worked 10 or more hours a …

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So, what’s with the “big” square houses?

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December 2020 When the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) opened their brand-new District 7 Headquarters on Rose Street, beside the newly-built Highway 400 in Barrie, Ontario, in 1958, it replaced the office in the basement of the Barrie Municipal building on Collier Street that OPP officers used during the decade they policed the town. Starting on …

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