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July 2020 Ghost towns are; “a once flourishing town wholly or nearly deserted usually as a result of the exhaustion of some natural resource,” as defined by Webster’s Dictionary. The Bruce County community of Egypt, sometimes referred to as Little Egypt, is an oddity in that it was never really an actual “town,” but simply …

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Historically significant buildings in Canada – The Sharon Temple

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July 2020 Canada has many unique and historically significant buildings. The Sharon Temple, located in the Village of Sharon, in central Ontario, is one such building. The white, timber-frame, clapboard building of ascending chambers, is the centrepiece of an open-air museum, composed of seven other heritage buildings on a 4.5 acre property, and owned by …

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The Old Finch Avenue Bailey Bridge – A historic temporary bridge still in use 66 years later

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June 2020 A Bailey Bridge is a pre-fabricated truss bridge that was designed by civil engineer Donald Bailey of the British War Office, and developed for use by the British military early in World War II. The wood and steel Bailey Bridge was designed as a portable type of bridge; one that could be easily …

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Sewells Road Bridge – Toronto’s only suspension bridge

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June 2020 Civil engineer Frank Barber has designed many unique bridges in Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area. Perhaps the most unique bridge, for the Toronto area, is the Sewells Road Bridge; unique in that it’s the only suspension bridge in Toronto and one of the few found in Ontario. The single lane Sewells Road …

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Is police violence on TV to blame?

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June 2020 The age-old question has been does watching too much TV rot your brain? In light of the most recent shooting death of a black man in Atlanta, 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks, by now former Atlanta police officer Garrett Rolfe, who is now facing 11 charges, I do have to wonder what the effect cop …

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The ruins of St. Michael’s Catholic Church – One of the few remnants of a lost village

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June 2020 South-west of the Town of Chesley, on Concession 14 of Brant Township, sits a lonely church bell tower, topped with a cross and framed by two matching windows on either side, with the remains of the foundation walls jutting out the back. These are the remains of St. Michael’s Catholic Church, and one …

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Abandoned railway trestle now part of a rail trail in Paisley

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June 2020 In Paisley, Ontario, a small town in Bruce County, has given new life to an abandoned railway trestle that stretches across the Teeswater River. This steel and wood trestle once carried trains belonging to the Wellington, Grey and Bruce Railway (WG&BR), a historical railway that ran a distance of just over 100 miles …

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How much is enough? – “Why don’t the rich pay their fair share?”

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June 2020 Every so often you hear the argument that the rich should pay their “fair share”, but you never really get an answer to the question of how much is enough? It’s too easy to claim that the rich don’t pay enough tax because of the size of their bank accounts. Do you want …

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Narcissistic sociopath – They’ll insult, belittle and criticize you (sometimes in a teasing/joking way)

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June 2020 Although I’m not the author of these quotes, this describes people I’ve known in my life. This stuff is too good not to post: “When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don’t get to decide that you didn’t.” “How do you know if someone is a narcissist? Everything will revolve …

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When you find out that celebrity you admire is a jerk

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