November 2025 According to a report in the Ottawa Citizen by David Pugliese on 10 November, Prime Minister Mark Carney wants to draft federal civil servants into the Canadian Armed Forces reserves? Would those be the same civil servants who have a problem coming back to the office 5-days-a-week? Those civil servants?! Seriously?! Did he …
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November 2025 I’m continually amazed at the logic of some of the readers of The Hamilton Spectator. In his Letter to the Editor (“This is why we need electoral reform,” 11 November), Chris Cardey disparages our first-past-the-post system of government, claiming that Doug Ford’s government has a “false majority,” and this is why we need …
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November 2025 Well, it’s official. The new mayor of New York City is Zohran Mamdani, the 34-year-old New York State Assemblyman from New York’s 36th State Assembly district. It never ceases to amaze me how the useful idiots on the political left keep tightening the noose around their own necks and other liberal democracies by …
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Published in the Toronto Sun, 9 November 2025 (Updated). Previously published on militarybruce.com in October 2009 and in the Barrie Examiner, 9 August 2017. The Victoria Cross is the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to members of British and Commonwealth militaries in times of …
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Published in the Toronto Sun, 10 November 2025 (Updated). Previously published in The Naval Reserve Link, September 2008. Lieutenant Robert Hampton Gray, VC, DSC, RCNVR has the distinction of being Canada’s last Victoria Cross winner. Gray, also known as Hammy, was born on 2 November 1917 in Trail, British Columbia to John and Wilhelmina Gray. …
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November 2025 So, in the space of a few days, Canada’s “Great White Hope,” Prime Minister Mark Carney, has bowed down to Chinese PM Xi Jinping and apologized to President Donald Trump for the very accurate anti-tariff advertisement featuring former President Ronald Regan. It’s debatable whether it was a wise strategy to produce this advertisement, …
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October 2025 To anyone who was aware of the Cold War struggles behind the Iron Curtain, the name Lech Wałęsa is synonymous with the fight for freedom. As the co-founder of the Solidarity trade-union (Solidarność in Polish) in the Lenin Shipyard, in the northern Polish city of Gdańsk, Wałęsa became an international figure in the …
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October 2025 Regarding the high prices for Blue Jays tickets on the resale market, the only way the price insanity is going to end is if people stop buying them, plain and simple. In reality, all products and services are only worth what people are willing to pay for them. If people refuse to pay …
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October 2025 Rebel News celebrated the 10th anniversary of their founding in Toronto, Ontario, on 16 October. Originally known as The Rebel, Rebel News was founded as an internet-based news outlet by Ezra Levant and Brian Lilley, out of the ashes of the Sun News Network, where they both worked for almost 4 years. Sun …
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October 2025 On tonight’s menu is a delightful dinner featuring crow as the main course, with humble pie for desert. What do you do when, after chanting “Free, Free Palestine/Gaza” for the past 2 years in the streets of Canada and America, you here the voices of the Gazans chanting President Donald Trump’s name in …
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