December 2025 The southern Ontario city of Barrie has grown considerably since it was founded as a village in 1854. As with many older cities, there are many historic homes and buildings near and over the century mark. One such home is a 19th-century house on Miller Drive in the west end of Barrie, a …
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December 2025 Re: “Climate is no longer a political priority” (Doreen Barrie, The Hamilton Spectator, 5 December): Columnist Doreen Barrie falls into the same binary climate alarmist narrative that if we aren’t building windmills and keeping fossil fuels in the ground, then we don’t care about the environment. Climate and the environment are separate issues, …
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December 2025 While many over the decades have come to the Hamlet of Woodbourne and surrounding area for a relaxing summer vacation in the Catskills region of Upstate New York, entertainment was also a big part of experience. One of the venues for entertainment was the Center Theater. The two-storey Art Deco/Streamline Moderne-style theatre, designed …
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December 2025 Regarding the terrorist attack at a Hannukah event at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia on Sunday: Chief Demkiw, this is going to happen in Toronto, unless you start doing your job and arresting the antisemitic, pro-Hamas hooligans who terrorize the Jewish community in Toronto on an almost daily basis. Immediate deportation of any …
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Published in the Toronto Sun, 12 December 2025 SHOW YOUR PRIDE In light of the fact that Iran and Egypt will be playing the Pride Match in Seattle during the World Cup, I’m issuing a challenge to the LGBTQ community of North America. What I want to see at this game is the gayest of …
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December 2025 Toronto Police recently announced that they will be adding eight additional dedicated officers to a portion of the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) Yonge-University line. Four officers will be positioned between Union and Wellesley stations and another four between Bloor and Eglinton stations. While it certainly seems like a no-brainer to add more police …
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November 2025 Known as the “Doctor’s House,” it was the last building built for what was once called the Ontario Hospital for the Insane. It’s now just a memory. The hospital, now known as Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences, opened in 1913 in the Town of Whitby as a new, progressive facility for …
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November 2025 I was looking for possible ways to honour the great, under-appreciated, former cabinet Minister, the Honourable Bev Oda. I’m not sure if it should be in the form of a public apology, a monument, the Order of Canada, or a formal portrait hanging in the office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer, but we …
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November 2025 On 24 July 1980, Terry Fox came to Brampton, Ontario, during his cross-Canada Marathon of Hope. Now, 45-years later, Mayor Patrick Brown, members of council, Fox family representative Jessie Alder and artist Christiano De Araujo gathered in Chinguacousy Park to unveil a monument Terry Fox, not far from Terry Fox Stadium. The monument …
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November 2025 I was sickened and disgusted by the Palestinian flag raising ceremony at Nathan Phillips Square on Monday. Besides the sick irony in that the square is named after Toronto’s first Jewish mayor, it was alarming to see supporters standing on the elevated platform where the flagpole sits, shouting “Free, free Palestine” and “From …
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