Bruce Forsyth

July 31, 2019

July 2019 Re: “Mental health stigma persists at police service, veteran officer says,” (Barrie Advance, 9 May 2019): I can relate to the lack of support that Cst Brad Traves talks about. I’m a retired police officer who also suffers from PTSD and I received absolutely no support from my police service or even from …

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Jul 25 2019

Humorous tradition for a legendary politician

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July 25, 2019

July 2019 René Lévesque was a small man in stature, standing only 5’3″, but his legacy is larger than life. As founder of the Parti Québécois and later the 23rd Premier of Quebec from November 1976 to October 1985, Lévesque was at the head of the sovereignty movement in Quebec, in which Quebec sought to …

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Jul 18 2019

Canada’s first railway tunnel now a tourist attraction

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July 18, 2019

July 2019 The City of Brockville in eastern Ontario has the distinction of having Canada’s first railway tunnel in one of Canada’s oldest railway centres. Construction of the 1, 700 foot tunnel began in September 1854, thirteen years before Confederation, but it wasn’t until 31 December 1860 that the tunnel was open for service. The …

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Jul 12 2019

The sins of the father – Sex, drugs and rock & roll attitude

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July 12, 2019

July 2019 Re: Hedley frontman appears in Toronto court on sex charges (Sam Pazzano, Toronto Sun, 12 July 2019): In light of the sexual assault and sexual exploitation charges that Hedley frontman Jacob Hoggard is facing in a Toronto courtroom, can it reasonably be said that rock stars of days-gone-by bear some responsibility for possibly …

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Jul 10 2019

Monument to a failed hydro project – The mystery arch in Eugenia

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July 10, 2019

July 2019 In the Village of Eugenia, Ontario, an unincorporated municipality in Artemesia Township, beside the Beaver River at the top of Eugenia Falls in the Eugenia Falls Conservation Area, sits a lone stone arch seemingly serving no purpose. This stone arch was once the entrance to a long-vanished tunnel intended to be used in …

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Jul 08 2019

In Flanders Fields – Guelph memorializes its hometown hero

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July 8, 2019

July 2019 “In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row” Canadian physician and soldier Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD, is one of Canada’s most famous soldiers from that terrible “War to end all wars.” LCol McCrae wrote the famous poem, “In Flanders Fields,” which is recited each year at Remembrance Day …

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Jul 06 2019

Abandoned airfield played a role in Canada’s aviation industry

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July 6, 2019

July 2019 On Gilmore Road in Fort Erie, Ontario, behind the Fleet Canada plant, sits an abandoned 2500 foot runway that once served as a private airfield for one of Canada’s oldest aerospace manufactures: Fleet Aircraft of Canada, Ltd., the predecessor company of Fleet Canada Inc. Fleet Aircraft of Canada officially opened for operations on …

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Jun 29 2019

Keeping drugs out of correctional institutions challenging

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June 29, 2019

June 2019 On 23 January 2017, Glen Kristofferson died of an apparent fentanyl overdose while being held in custody at the Central North Correction Centre in Penetanguishene, Ontario, on charges of assault cause bodily harm. An inquest into his death began on 17 June in Midland and Kristofferson’s family have their own opinions on who …

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Jun 28 2019

Mixed emotions and great betrayals

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June 28, 2019

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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Jun 17 2019

A walk through the past – Eckley Miners’ Village

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June 17, 2019

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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