Bruce Forsyth

Published in the Toronto Sun, 19 March 2020 Re: “A warning to not be irresponsible hoarders” (Jerry Agar, Toronto Sun, 17 March): While I agree with what Jerry says, especially the idea of price gouging, the other side of the coin is that this is simply the good and bad of a free-market economy. People …

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The Kedge Anchor – A relic of the War of 1812 in Holland Landing

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March 2020 The small community of Holland Landing, Ontario, played an important part in the early history of Upper Canada, now known as the Canadian province of Ontario. Today, it has a monument in a community park that has an interesting history. Holland Landing was the northernmost point of the original alignment of Yonge Street, …

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Buried bridges of Toronto

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March 2020 Like most cities, Toronto has a spotted history of preserving buildings and structures from the past. Most times, old buildings and structures are torn down to make room for new ones, all in the name of progress. In some cases, it’s simply too expensive to repair them, but especially in the case of …

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QEW Monument commemorates Ontario’s first “super-highway”

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March 2020 When the Ontario government of George Stewart Henry began the process of expanding and converting the Middle Road into a new Toronto to Hamilton highway in 1931, it was originally conceived as a work relief project during the Great Depression. Originally a dusty, rural concession road, the Middle Road, which ran parallel to …

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Shining a light on the past – Queen’s Wharf Lighthouse

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March 2020 For centuries, going back to the days of ancient Rome, lighthouses have lined shorelines around the world to serve as a navigational aid and to warn boats of dangerous areas; like a traffic sign on the sea. The Queen’s Wharf Lighthouse is a wooden, 36-foot octagonal lighthouse, sitting on a small plot of …

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Ghosts of the past – The St Thomas Psychiatric Hospital

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February 2020 On Elgin County Road 4, south of St. Thomas, Ontario, sits a complex of vacant, inter-connected Queenston Limestone, Art Deco buildings, done in a Pavilion Plan style, on a 650-acre property. This is the former St. Thomas Psychiatric Hospital. Opened in April 1939 as the Ontario Hospital – St. Thomas, the facility already …

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The crisis in policing continues

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February 2020 OK, I’m mad now and for very personal reasons. Last year was a terrible year in policing, with six officers taking their own lives. So far, 2020 isn’t shaping up to be much better. Back on 6 February, Toronto Police lost one of their own to suicide. Constable Mike Austin took his own …

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When anarchy rules – Trudeau’s leadership failures continue

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February 2020 Prime Minister Trudeau states he will not order the RCMP to break-up the blockades set up by protesters across Canada to protest the Coastal GasLink project in British Columbia, condescendingly telling everyone that Canada is not the kind of country where the politicians tell the police what to do on operational matters. Well …

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Old CPR Roundhouse the centrepiece of Toronto’s railway-themed park and museum

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February 2020 In the early part of the 20th century, the railway ruled the Toronto waterfront. Locally known as the “Railway Lands,” was once the home to a large railway switching yard, featuring two large roundhouses, the Canadian National Railways (CNR) Spadina Roundhouse, built in 1928, and the Canadian Pacific Railways (CPR) John Street Roundhouse, …

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Politicians and law enforcement don’t always mix

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February 2020 A video showing two Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) Special Constables pepper-spraying and wrestling with a violent passenger on a TTC bus on Friday, 7 February, has brought swift condemnation from Toronto Mayor John Torry and Councillors Kristyn Wong-Tam and Brad Bradford on social media, calling the actions of the Special Constables “irresponsible” and …

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