Bruce Forsyth

March 2019 The legacy of the Molly Maguires is all over Schuylkill and Carbon Counties in Pennsylvania. For those interested in visiting some of the locations where the members of the infamous secret Irish society lived, gathered, maimed, murdered and were executed, there are plenty of documented locations to visit. One “reputed” hangout can be …

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So who’s the deplorable? – Trump cleared and Trudeau keeps sinking

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March 2019 For two years, Robert Muller has been investigating allegations the President Donald Trump colluded with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election. Now the report has been released and Muller has concluded that despite the fact that many, many left-wing pundits, politicians and celebrities have been saying Trump’s impeachment is imminent, there was …

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Screaming Tunnel – One of the lesser known Niagara-area attractions

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March 2019 Running underneath the Canadian National Railway line near the intersection of the Queen Elizabeth Way and Highway 405 outside of Niagara Falls, Ontario, is one of the lesser known and more unusual tourist attractions in the area. Known locally as “The Screaming Tunnel,” this 125-foot-long, 16-foot-high arched limestone tunnel has an allegedly horrific …

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City park has a morbid past

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March 2019 The park known as McBurney Park in Kingston, Ontario, a park known locally as Skeleton Park, is one park with a rather morbid history. From 1819 until 1864, it was the Upper Burial Ground, the final resting place for many early settlers in the Kingston area of Upper Canada. Closed to new burials …

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Fake news strikes again?

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Toronto Sun 30 March 2019 On 26 March 2019, Cook County prosecutors on Tuesday dropped all charges against “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett for allegedly staging a phony attack and claiming he was the victim of a hate crime back in January. The public should be told the exact reason why the charges were dropped. If …

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The positive side of PTSD

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March 2019 Awareness of PTSD has never been higher today, but we are still needlessly loosing first responders and military veterans to suicide at alarming rates. In March 2019, it was reported that OPP constable Roch Durivage had become the fourth member of the Ontario Provincial Police to take his own life since July and …

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Environmental disaster – The continuing legacy of Love Canal

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March 2019 Once envisioned as the model of what a planned community could be, the name Love Canal has become synonyms with environmental disaster. Although the community, to be called Model City by its founder William T. Love, never came to fruition under his guidance or as he envisioned, what did emerge was a residential …

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Annual Base Borden ceremony remembers lives lost in long-ago munitions explosion

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Published in the Alliston Herald, 23 March 2019 Published in the Springwater News, 4 April 2019 Published in the Canadian Military Family Magazine, 9 April 2019 At 1pm on Wednesday, March 20, a small contingent from Canadian Forces Ammunition Depot Angus at Base Borden gathered at the cenotaph in the Village of Angus, just north …

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Pot, Kettle is on line 2 for you

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Published in the Toronto Sun 6 March 2019 Re: “Huawei CFO suing Canada” ( Associated Press, 4 March 2019): When reading this article, I actually had to look at the top of the page to make sure that someone didn’t slip in a page from The Onion into my Toronto Sun because I figured this had …

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Cloudy skies for our “Sunny Ways” Prime Minister

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February 2019 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may have a little trouble sleeping tonight, knowing the brewing political storm that is blowing his way. In the wake of the demotion of Jody Wilson-Raybould from Justice Minister and Attorney General to Veterans Affairs Minister, allegations surfaced that Trudeau pressured Wilson-Raybould to help Quebec-based engineering firm SNC-Lavalin …

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