Published in the Barrie Advance 9 November 2007 Published in the Orillia Today 23 November 2007 On Remembrance Day, Canadians honour the sacrifices of Canada’s war veterans. It’s also a time when Canadians most often think about our troops currently serving in harm’s way.
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Nov 07 2007
Use of Tasers in question
November 2007 I will open by stating the obvious: the death of Robert Dziekanski after being tasered by the 4 RCMP officers should not have happened. I don’t know anyone who would agree with that more that the RCMP officers themselves. Although none of us “arm-chair quarterbacks” really know what was going through the minds …
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Oct 27 2007
Action on the Hill?
Published in the Toronto Sun 28 October 2007 Re “Harper: Bully or shrewd political strategist” (Oct 21): Angelo Persichilli has hit the nail right on the head with this one.
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Oct 20 2007
Dion the Saviour
October 2007 Angelo Persichilli (Harper: Bully or shrewd political strategist, Toronto Sun, Oct 21) has hit the nail right on the head with this one.
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Oct 11 2007
Thankful for Canada’s military
October 2007 Re: Peter Worthington’s Young Canadians Respond (October 12), it’s good to see that young Canadians are upholding this country’s proud military history, despite what the “peace-at-any-price proponents” would like. Historically, Canadians have fielded the biggest non-conscript military. It just seems to be an inherent trait that Canadians are willing to serve their country …
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Oct 09 2007
An election is no time for serious issues
October 2007 What a pathetic lot we will be if Ontarians reject John Torry’s Conservatives just because of the political land-mine he laid with private school funding. Are you, my fellow Ontarians, telling me that you’d rather keep the Fiberals in power; the ones who foisted up on us the biggest tax increase in …
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Oct 03 2007
The Cause of World War I – The shot that started a war – The assassination of the Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary
October 2007 This year we celebrate the 89th anniversary of the end of the Great War; “The War To End All Wars”; The First World War. Despite all the major reasons why the war might have started, the actual incident which started WWI, took place in a small corner of Europe called …
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Sep 06 2007
Justice for Steven Truscott
Published in the Barrie Advance 7 September 2007 Steven Truscott is no longer a convicted murderer, but has justice been done given that he was acquitted and not exonerated?
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Sep 04 2007
A slanted view
September 2007 The letter by former SCDSB Chair Lynda Murtha (Public cash, public schools, August 17) presents a very slanted view of the Ontario Conservatives’ proposal to fund private religious schools. Nowhere in her letter does she mention that this funding will be subject to private schools accepting the Ontario school curriculum, adhering to the …
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Sep 03 2007
“No” to the Highway of Heroes
April 2007 After much thought, I must object to the re-naming of the Trenton-Toronto section of Highway 401 as the Highway of Heroes. I am a former member of the Canadian Navy, so this is not an anti-military stance, but I do think we are throwing around the word “heroïc” a little too much …
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About the Author
Bruce Forsyth served in the Royal Canadian Navy Reserve for 13 years (1987-2000). He served with units in Toronto, Hamilton & Windsor and worked or trained at CFB Esquimalt, CFB Halifax, CFB Petawawa, CFB Kingston, CFB Toronto, Camp Borden, The Burwash Training Area and LFCA Training Centre Meaford.