Bruce Forsyth

January 19, 2021

January 2021 Last Saturday, I ventured out of my house, despite the latest “Stay Home” order from the provincial government, on an essential trip to take some necessary supplies to my elderly parents, both of whom don’t venture too far from home, even on non-lockdown days. I wasn’t the only one. I saw many cars …

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Jan 19 2021

Historic stone arch railway bridge is older than Canada

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January 19, 2021

January 2021 When North America was still being settled, railways helped transport people and goods across Canada and the United States. In fact, it was the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway line across Canada in 1885, that helped open up the west to settlement, and brought British Columbia into Confederation. Over the past 200 …

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Jan 18 2021

President Joe Biden will be making a big mistake by cancelling the Keystone XL pipeline

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January 18, 2021

January 2021 We’re all told to follow the science when it comes to many things, including the current crisis with the Communist Chinese Party Virus. The current science indicates that pipelines are the safest and most environmentally responsible method of transporting fossil fuels. I want to make it very, very clear that everyone wants a …

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Jan 15 2021

Legendary Canadian artist Tom Thomson remembered at Canoe Lake

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January 15, 2021

January 2021 Tom Thomson was a Canadian artist, considered one of the most important and influential Canadian artists, known for the landscape paintings depicting the beauty of Ontario that he painted during his short life. An avid outdoorsman, Thomson produced around 400 oil sketches on small wood panels and around an additional 50 on canvas, …

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Jan 14 2021

Grimsby’s historic Grout Nelles house gets a new lease on life

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January 14, 2021

January 2021 In towns and cities across Canada, historic buildings are demolished all the time in the name of progress. Developers will pay big money for the land these buildings stand on, sometimes with little care for the significance of these buildings. In too many cases, the developers will allow the building to deteriorate to …

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Jan 14 2021

Barrie’s historic Lount Castle lives on as a luxury apartment building

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January 14, 2021

January 2021 The City of Barrie, 50 miles north of Toronto, has many historic buildings, but one of the more stunning is known as Lount’s Castle. Built in 1877 as a summer home for William Lount, Jr., a Toronto lawyer, judge and politician, and the son of United Empire Loyalist William Lount, Sr., who served …

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Jan 12 2021

Ontario held hostage

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January 12, 2021

January 2021 Now that Premier Doug Ford has declared a second provincial emergency lock-down, I thought everyone might like to know that according to the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control web site (https://www.cdc.gov.tw/en), as of 12 January, Taiwan has had 838 confirmed cases, and a grand total of SEVEN deaths, from the CCP Virus, out …

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Jan 10 2021

What’s that saying about those who live in glass houses?

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January 10, 2021

January 2021 The political establishment needs to take a good look in the mirror. As the experiment that was the Trump presidency comes to an end, the political establishment would be well-served if they subjected themselves to an honest assessment of why Trump was elected in the first place, why there is so much distrust …

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Jan 09 2021

Let’s stop pretending we’re all in this together

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January 9, 2021

January 2021 Despite the constant pleas from our elected officials and health unit leaders that we refrain from non-essential traveling, especially out of the country, and remain in our homes as much as possible, many prominent political and health officials have been outed as having ignored such recommendations. The latest to be outed is Halton …

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Jan 07 2021

A sad end for the historic Preston Springs Hotel

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January 7, 2021

January 2021 On the last day of 2020, demolition began on the historic Preston Springs Hotel, an iconic landmark, in Cambridge, Ontario. The abandoned hotel stood at the corner of Fountain Street and King Street, in what was formerly the Village of Preston, for 137 years. It’s now just a memory. Empty since 1990, when …

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