October 2024 Lakeland Kartway has been a fixture of the beach strip area in Hamilton for 66 years, but the seasonal operation may have seen its last summer. The scheduled closure of the popular go-kart track, the oldest one in Canada, came as a shock to residents of the southern Ontario city and its neighbouring …
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October 2024 It was 24 July 1980, when Terry Fox ran along Yonge Street in Richmond Hill, Ontario, past a small parkette on the east side of the road. The young Canadian runner had begun his cross-Canada run, the Marathon of Hope, in support of cancer research a little over two-months prior in St. John’s Newfoundland. …
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October 2024 Regardless of whether you are a fan of fried chicken or not, everyone knows the name and face of one of the most successful fried chicken restauranteurs in modern history, the man referred to simply as “The Colonel.” Colonel Harland Sanders was the Indiana-born businessman and founder of fast food chicken restaurant chain …
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Published in the Toronto Sun, 19 October 2024 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau: RELEASE. THE. NAMES. It shouldn’t matter that Pierre Poilievre doesn’t want to get his security clearance updated so he can view the report. If this is such a national security issue, and it is, that you would publicly state that there are Conservatives …
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October 2024 Should Canada have mandatory voting? Well, that depends on whether we can better inform voters or not. Voting, whether it’s mandatory or not, rarely comes to any good if the voter is clueless to the important issues and the track record of the political candidate. Arguments have been made that getting to the …
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October 2024 On 27 December 2022, 28-year-old Provincial Constable Grzegorz “Greg” Pierzchala, a rookie member of the Ontario Provincial Police, Haldimand detachment, was shot and killed while responding to a report of a vehicle in a ditch near the Town of Hagersville. It was nothing short of an ambush attack, with Pierzchala not even having …
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October 2024 Re: 401 tunnel study must not be an afterthought (Jay Goldberg, Toronto Sun, 5 October): While the proposed Highway 401 tunnel may be an obnoxiously expensive project for our already heavily-indebted province, one that has already shown itself unable to keep budgets and timelines in order, Premier Doug Ford’s tunnel idea could work. …
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October 2024 It’s a striking Victorian Gothic manor, the only remnant of the long-closed Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital on Hamilton Mountain. Century Manor was built in 1884, originally as the East House for what was then called the Hamilton Asylum for the Insane, a provincial facility tasked with housing the criminally insane, like murderers, serial killers …
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October 2024 I debated writing this column as I didn’t know if everyone would get the point I’m making here, but here it goes anyway. Now that the National Day for Insincerity and Hypocrisy, otherwise known as 30 September, is over, can we have an honest conversation about why this day is pretty much a …
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September 2024 Cemeteries are like a window to the past and a reflection on the temporary nature of life. From peaceful gardens to majestic sculptures, cemeteries are only the final resting places for the deceased, but also sites of great architectural beauty and cultural significance. Walking through the rows of gravestones, you can see the …
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