Feb 13 2016
February 2016 Re: “Poor idea to scrap tuition fees,” (Matthew Lau, Toronto Sun, Feb 12), I would like to add one thing: there is no such thing as a free education; free anything for at matter (think of our “free” health-care). Any “free” post-secondary education would in fact be paid for by taxpayers like you …
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Feb 05 2016
Published in the Toronto Sun, 17 February 2016 Re: Toronto cop pulled from lake had PTSD from on-job shooting (Joe Warmington, Feb 4): In the wake of the conviction of Constable James Forcillo, it’s pretty easy for some to believe cops are trigger happy thugs who feel no remorse for taking a life in the line …
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Feb 03 2016
Published in the Toronto Sun, 2 February 2016 Re: “The electoral treachery of Justin Trudeau, ” (Mark Bonokoski, Toronto Sun, Jan. 7): So let me get this straight; Justin had a problem with Harper using his majority government to ram the Fair Elections Act through Parliament, so in response it looks like he is going …
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Jan 01 2016
January 2016 Re “Buddy can you spare $300 billion,” (Candice Malcolm, 26 December): apparently Deb Matthews and the Liberals have discovered a very special level of chutzpah with their request that Ontarians donate their tax refunds to help pay down Ontario’s debt; a debt that the Liberals have run-up through their poor fiscal management, boondoggles …
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Oct 22 2015
October 2015 The federal election of 2015 is over and Stephen Harper and his Conservative government were defeated by Justin Trudeau and the Liberals, who won a solid majority in Canada’s Parliament. I’m trying very hard not to be too smug as I enjoy the silence, or should I say hypocritical silence, from the left-wing …
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Aug 27 2015
May 2015 A ghost town is a once-populated area that is abandoned, or partially abandoned, because the economic activity that supported it has failed, or due to natural disasters, government actions, environmental or nuclear disasters or war. Centralia, Pennsylvania, is one such partially abandoned ghost town. Deep in Pennsylvania’s anthracite coal region, the town once …
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Jul 30 2015
Published in the Navy League Newsletter September 2015 On 27 July 2015, a special presentation of an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) was made at the Barrie Navy League’s boathouse on Barrie’s waterfront by the Dave Mounsey Memorial Fund, an organization that donates defibrillators in the name of emergency services workers and military members who have …
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Jun 09 2015
Published in the Toronto Sun 14 June 2015 Re ” Liberal Senate damage grows,” (Anthony Furey, Toronto Sun, June 9): All those on the political left who think this is a Conservative scandal that will see a left-wing government come to power in October need to get off their smug high-horses. Liberal senators are up …
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Jun 04 2015
June 2015 Re: “MNR cuts to blame for bear shooting” (Toronto Sun, June 2): Once again the police are placed in an impossible position because a more appropriate agency, for whatever reason, is unable to respond fast enough. Police aren’t supposed to be wildlife management officers, mental health workers or social service workers, yet time and …
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Jan 03 2015
May 2003 Although a small private airstrip sits just east of Alliston today, serving the needs of local pilots, there was once a more significant but sadly forgotten airfield in Tecumseth Township: Royal Canadian Air Force Detachment Alliston. With the outbreak of WWII in 1939 the Canadian Government conceived a plan to train pilots, navigators, …
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