Nov 10 2026
November 2026 Re: Editorial: “Stop wallowing in sins of the past,” 9 November: Some other points to consider: Slavery was a reprehensible practice, but let’s stop pretending that Black Africans were the only culture in the history of the world to suffer under enslavement. Pretty much every race, ethnicity and religion around the world have …
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Nov 10 2026
October 2026 Driving across any county, city, town or village and you will often see remnants of educational institutions of the past. One and two room school houses can still be found in rural and formerly rural areas, some repurposed and some abandoned and crumbling. On a rural county road outside of Creemore, Ontario, sits …
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Nov 10 2026
November 2026 Re: “Hundreds protest OSAP overhaul at Mac” (Kate McCullough, Hamilton Spectator, 6 November): In a case of déjà vu all over again, as Yogi Berra once remarked, we have students, once again, complaining about rising tuition costs and cutbacks to OSAP. This is in response to Premier Doug Ford’s plan to reduce the …
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Nov 06 2026
A proposed Department of National Defence (DND) radar antenna receiver site in Clearview Township is receiving strong opposition from local residents, who have formed a community group, Resident Owners Against Radar (ROAR), in response to the federal government’s purchase of bought 288 hectares of land in Clearview for an antenna receiver site According to ROAR, …
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Nov 02 2026
November 2026 Oy vey! Okay, so if we are to believe the explanation provided by Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw regarding the not-currently-in-custody 23-year-old Toronto resident Daijohn Richards, the alleged participant in the Bridle Path home invasion who attended St. Joseph’s Health Centre with a gunshot wound, apparently we now need to provide police officers …
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Oct 27 2026
October 2026 Published in the Toronto Sun, 9 November 2026 Dear Toronto Sun Editors: Now that Mayor Olivia Chow has been re-elected to the mayor’s office, could you re-print Donato’s brilliant “Hamilton Buttheads” cartoon, amending it to read Toronto? I think that is more that fitting under the circumstances. I hope Torontonians are happy with …
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Oct 23 2026
October 2026 I’m sure we’ve all now seen the photo of the French woman, caught up in the riots perpetrated by military-aged men (I didn’t see any women), helplessly watching as they loot and vandalize a grocery store in Nice, with the “What have I done?” look on her face, heartbrokenly bewildered at the realization …
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Oct 19 2026
October 2026 In the early 1950s, the threat of attack by the Soviet Union on North America via the Arctic necessitated the construction of radar warning lines across the Canadian north. The Pinetree Line, the Mid-Canada Line and the Distant Early Warning Line, operated by the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), provided advance warning of …
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Oct 16 2026
October 2026 Mention the name Billy Bishop to most Canadians, and their minds will go back to the days of the Gentlemen Flyers of the Great War. The celebrated Canadian airman was the top Canadian and British Empire ace of the Great War and the most decorated Canadian serviceman of the war, one of 64 …
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Oct 08 2026
October 2026 Up a short pathway leading up a hill alongside a rail trail, is a small park on a bluff overlooking the Maitland River just north of Goderich, containing benches, historical plaques and a small area enclosed by a stone wall that’s actually a private family cemetery. This is the final resting place for …
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