Bruce Forsyth

March 22, 2019

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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Mar 21 2019

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

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March 21, 2019

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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Mar 05 2019

Pot, Kettle is on line 2 for you

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March 5, 2019

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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Feb 12 2019

Cloudy skies for our “Sunny Ways” Prime Minister

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February 12, 2019

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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Jan 31 2019

People Helping People – The legacy of Nils Johanson

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January 31, 2019

January 2019 On 11 January 2019, Canada lost a veteran broadcaster and addictions counselor who went beyond what anyone would expect. He truly cared helping addicts find their way to recovery and preventing them from going down the same path to destruction that should have killed him years before heart troubles and ultimately pneumonia finally …

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Dec 30 2018

No suspension in thrills – the Ranney Gorge Suspension Bridge

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December 30, 2018

December 2018 The Ranney Gorge Suspension Bridge is a unique tourist attraction, located in Ferris Provincial Park in Campbellford, Ontario. The 300 foot long bridge, built in 2004, takes visitors on a picturesque trip 30 feet over the Ranney Gorge, just south of Ranney Falls. Built with assistance of a construction engineering detachment from RCAF …

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Dec 30 2018

Heroes and villains in Pennsylvania’s anthracite coal region – Small park pays tribute to the Molly Maguires

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December 30, 2018

December 2018 The Molly Maguires was an Irish Catholic clandestine society active during the 1800s in Ireland, Liverpool and in the eastern United States, who engaged in often violent activism among the Irish communities in Pennsylvania’s anthracite region. Back then, the work and personal lives of many Irish immigrants, and of other nationalities, were controlled …

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Dec 30 2018

Abandoned ship now a local landmark

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December 30, 2018

December 2018 Drivers traveling along the Queen Elizabeth Way know very well the abandoned ship that sits in a small cove in Jordan Station. Officially named “La Grande Hermine” (The Big Weasel), the ship is a replica of the largest of the three ships that French Explorer Jacques Cartier sailed up the St. Lawrence River. …

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Nov 30 2018

St. Michael’s College embroiled in sex assault scandal

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November 30, 2018

November 2018 So, St. Mike’s, how’s your reputation now? If you were worried about protecting the reputation of your school, you’ve cratered it now. By not reporting a violent sexual assault on a male student by his fellow students, an apparent hazing, until the police literally came to you to after the media approached them …

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Nov 20 2018

The crumbling remains of America’s Jewish Vacationland – The rise and fall of the Borscht Belt

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