Bruce Forsyth

June 2019 After watching Clint Eastwood’s 2018 film “15:17 to Paris”, a film about three Americans (Spencer Stone, Anthony Sadler, and Alek Skarlatos) and one Frenchman who stopped a terrorist attack on a Paris-bound train, I’m both inspired and disheartened. What these four brave men did was extraordinary and exactly what I would see myself …

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A walk through the past – Eckley Miners’ Village

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June 2019 Eckley Miners’ Village offers an insight into life in Pennsylvania’s anthracite coal region, with an authentic coal mining patch town. Coal companies would establish a coal town or coal patch to house the workers that toiled in the company mines. Many of these “towns” were very exploitative of their workers, as the company …

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Peace & Music at Yasgur’s Farm – Woodstock 50 years later

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June 2019 “By the time we got to Woodstock We were half a million strong And everywhere was a song and a celebration” –From “Woodstock” by Joni Mitchell In May 2019, I finally made the pilgrimage to the site of the 1969 Woodstock Music & Arts Festival outside of Bethel, New York. The site looks …

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A pain that won’t end

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June 2019 The death of anyone in a motor vehicle collision is a tragedy, but when young children die, there is little that can be done to make anything better. It was heartbreaking watching an interview that Jennifer Neville-Lake gave to Global News last year, describing the pain she is left with in the wake …

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Old lake freighter finds second life as a breakwater

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June 2019 In the Port Credit section of Mississauga, Ontario, a former village on the shores of Lake Ontario, the harbour is protected by two crushed stone break-walls and a third that is actually a former lake freighter: the S.S. Ridgetown. The Ridgetown, originally named the S.S. William E. Corey, was launched on 24 March 1905 as the flagship …

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Never missing an opportunity to virtue-signal

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June 2019 You have to admire U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence for his decorum and restraint in the face of having to endure a lecture from our fake feminist and Virtue-Signaler-in-Chief, Justin Trudeau. Besides the fact that the abortion issue has nothing to do with international trade, nor had absolutely nothing to do with the purpose of …

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What if I had chosen suicide?

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June 2019 I’ve attended many police funerals in my two and half decades in Law Enforcement, including the funeral of an auxiliary constable from the last police service I worked for, who died in an off-duty traffic collision (he left behind a wife and three young children). I’ve also attended annual memorial services held to …

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A second helping of Borscht – The (crumbling) remains of America’s Jewish vacationland

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May 2019 (Updated April 2022, April 2023, August 2024, & July 2025) Note: This is Chapter 2 in my Borscht Belt series. Links to the other Borscht Belt articles are at the bottom of this article. If you don’t find a write-up on a specific hotel or bungalow colony in this chapter, either they are …

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An open letter to National Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan concerning the Afghan War Memorial

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Published in the Toronto Sun, Edmonton Sun, Winnipeg Sun 24 May 2019 This is the text of an email that I sent to Minister of National Defence Harjit Sajjan: Minister, I am incredibly insulted that the Afghanistan Memorial was officially opened in secret at National Defence Headquarters (NDHQ), in an area that is not accessible to …

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Concrete City – The abandoned company town that was killed by its design

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May 2019 When an entire town is abandoned, it’s usually due to things like the exhaustion of the natural resources that sustained it, a natural disaster, or man-made disaster like a mine fire or toxic contamination. There are literally thousands of “Ghost Towns” across the country. For Concrete City, it was due to the construction …

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