Bruce Forsyth

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Name: Bruce Forsyth
Date registered: April 23, 2014
URL: https://militarybruce.com

Biography

Bruce Forsyth served in the Royal Canadian Navy Reserve for 13 years (1987-2000). He served with units in Toronto, Hamilton & Windsor and worked or trained at CFB Esquimalt, CFB Halifax, CFB Petawawa, CFB Kingston, CFB Toronto, Camp Borden, The Burwash Training Area and LFCA Training Centre Meaford.

Latest posts

  1. Wearing a hijab should always be a choice — July 30, 2026
  2. An old log cabin on the edge of a city- The lone remnant of a failed business venture — July 27, 2026
  3. Just say the line, Marit — July 27, 2026
  4. Forgotten Borscht – Where summer memories were once made are now littered with ruins — July 27, 2026
  5. Kleinburg Railway Station a remnant of a long-vanished railway — July 25, 2026

Most commented posts

  1. Canadian Army Training Centres of WWII — 76 comments
  2. Canada should issue a Cold War Victory Medal to its military — 45 comments
  3. Watching the Skies – The RCAF Ground Observer Corps — 35 comments
  4. Camp Borden – The birthplace of the RCAF and the historic home of the Canadian Armoured Corps — 25 comments
  5. Lament for the PMQ? — 23 comments

Author's posts listings

Oct 18 2019

If these walls could talk – Historic county jails offer an insight into the past of crime & punishment

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October 18, 2019

October 2019 Have you ever wondered what it’s like is jail, but didn’t want to go through the bother of committing a crime?  Well, the good news is that there are many former jails and penitentiaries that are open for public tours.  Some, like the former Carleton County Jail in Ottawa, Ontario, also double as …

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Oct 06 2019

Victory Village – A neighbourhood with a historic connection to Canada’s aviation industry

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October 6, 2019

October 2019 Victory Village is a residential neighbourhood in Mississauga, Ontario, with a historic connection to Canada’s aviation industry. Situated in the former Village of Malton, next to Toronto Pearson International Airport, the neighbourhood had its beginnings during World War II, when Canada played a vital role in aircraft production for the war effort. In …

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Oct 05 2019

Time to stop this climate hysteria

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October 5, 2019

October 2019 Regarding letter writer Carol Bell’s letter (Climate crisis must be faced, 3 October, Barrie Advance): How smoggy is the sky in her world? This climate hysteria has to stop. Look, we all want a clean environment with smog-free air, clean water sources and our trash properly and safely disposed of, but all this …

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Oct 01 2019

At what point do you cut up the credit card?

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October 1, 2019

September 2019 The latest promise to come out the Justin Trudeau election machine is to promise deficit spending of $20 billion over the next four years, along with disparaging Conservatives like Andrew Scheer and Doug Ford for wanting to cut spending. Oy vey! Trudeau must really think Canadians are a bunch of schmucks, which we …

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Oct 01 2019

No mention of officers who took their own lives at annual memorial service

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October 1, 2019

October 2019 On 29 September, I attended the annual Canadian Police and Peace Officer Memorial ceremony in Ottawa, something I have done most years since 1997, missing only 2011, when I went to New York City for their 9-11 Ceremony and 2018, when I went to Albany, NY, for their annual Peace Officer Memorial ceremony. …

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Sep 23 2019

This is getting out of control!!

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September 23, 2019

September 2019 Published in Metroland Media newspapers, 24 October 2019 This is getting out of control!! No, not climate change; the abuse of this child, Greta Thunberg. She is being emotionally abused by all those elite UN global warming hypocrites who applauded her speech. Let her go back home, go to school and hang out …

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Sep 22 2019

While you’re in a forgiving mood…..

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September 22, 2019

September 2019 Wow! I’ve learned in the wake of Justin Trudeau’s blackface scandal that a lot of Liberals are in a very forgiving mood. In discussions on Facebook, I’ve had people making a variety of excuses for why we should forgive Prime Minister Blackface and just move on. How many of them believe the ousted …

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Sep 21 2019

Liberal campaign gets off to an ironic start

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September 21, 2019

September 2019 The Liberal Party of Canada’s election campaign got off to an ironic start when their campaign media bus struck the left-wing of their campaign airplane on the tarmac at the Victoria, B.C. Airport on Wednesday night, 11 September. The bus had just picked up the journalists traveling with the campaign, when it scraped …

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Sep 19 2019

The Old Soldier – Regimental Sergeant-Major Thomas McKenzie remembered at Wolseley Barracks

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September 19, 2019

September 2019 In London, Ontario, the historic Wolseley Barracks, has been a fixture in the city since 1884, when it was established as the home of “D” Company of the Infantry Corps School, on farmland in Middlesex County, owned by John Carling, son of the founder of the Carling Brewery. Although it is still an …

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Sep 18 2019

Hypocrite, and it looks good on you Justin! – The spectacular moral fall of Prime Minister Blackface

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September 18, 2019

September 2019 Just when you thought the bar on Justin Trudeau’s moral compass couldn’t sink any lower, it has. A photo emerged two days ago of Justin Trudeau from 2001, dressed as Aladdin in full-on blackface and a turban at an Arabian Nights gala at West Point Grey Academy, a private school in Vancouver, British …

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