July 2024 The buildings are boarded up; the boards that make up the oval enclosure are weathered and deteriorating, containing an overgrown space that once was a popular place to skate away the afternoon or evening. The chatter and excitement of crowds skating in circles under the overhead lighting have been replaced by silence, only …
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July 2024 When the Ontario government announced on 21 June that the Ontario Science Centre’s Don Mills building was to be closed effective immediately, due to serious structural issues with the roof, there have been no shortage of protests and screeching voices declaring that the building must be saved and not demolished. People are acting …
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July 2024 One of the things that has become very, very apparent is how far from classical liberalism the Liberal Party of Canada has drifted, to the almost cult-like following of Dear Leader, Justin Trudeau. Supporters seem incapable of acknowledging how far Trudeau has strayed from true liberal values and into a socialist worship cult, …
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July 2024 Well, University of Toronto, you have been proven to be massive chumps! Despite all their bluster, the pro-Hamas agitators who occupied your property for the past two months folded like wet lasagna noodles when faced with the possibility of being arrested by police. As this proves, you should have done the same thing …
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Published in the Toronto Sun, 7 July 2024 Is it just me, or do others see the irony in the fact for the second time in recent years, the Pride Parade was literally stopped in its tracks by a competing protest movement? Pride began as a protest movement advocating for the rights of the gay …
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July 2024 The Auld Kirk Scotch Settlement is long-gone, leaving only the Presbyterian Church, which sat abandoned for over half a century. This small church is one of many that can still be found across the rural landscape. When driving along the rural sideroads across Canada and America, you will still see the occasional old, …
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July 2024 Despite what some believe Henry Ford and the Ford motor company weren’t the ones who created the gas powered automobile. That distinction goes to Carl Benz, who created the first gas powered automobile in 1885, fifteen years after a small gas powered motor was placed on a car, proving it could be used …
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June 2024 First it was Councilor Chris Moise at a public meeting, now it’s Councilor Shelley Carroll who displayed an appallingly high level of chutzpah in scolding those opposed to renaming Young-Dundas Square to Sankofa Square as racists in off-air discussions with Newstalk 1010 show hosts John Moore Show and Jerry Agar. At the Toronto Council …
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June 2024 On Sunday, 23 June, hundreds of police officers and their supporters gathered at the site of the Ontario Police Memorial in Toronto to commemorate the first annual Ontario Police Suicide Memorial ceremony. Unlike the existing police memorial, which pays tribute to police officers killed in the line of duty, this new memorial pays …
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June 2024 For rural communities, one-room or small multi-room schoolhouses were the standard before communities grew and educational course offerings necessitated bigger schools, holding anywhere from several hundred to one or two thousand students. Before the invention of the automobile, these one-room or small schools were built close to the towns and farms where the …
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