October 2025 The cold, hard truth is that there is no such thing as $10 a day daycare. It simply doesn’t exist. Daycare costs what it costs the provider, plus a profit margin, something that is necessary for the continued operation of any business, including a daycare. The only way that providers can charge parents …
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October 2025 A new transit terminal opened in Barrie, Ontario, on 21 September, replacing the now-closed downtown transit terminal. The location of the new Barrie Allandale Transit Terminal has a long history of transportation, occupying a portion of the former Canadian National Railway lands on the shore of Kempenfelt Bay, once a large, important railway …
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September 2025 An absence of balance. That’s what I see with much of the talk regarding the Indian Residential Schools. A recent column written by Sean Carleton, associate professor in the Departments of History and Indigenous Studies at the University of Manitoba, and Benjamin Kucher, a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology at the University …
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September 2025 There’s an old proverb: “Give them an inch and they’ll take a mile.” Premier Doug Ford has announced his government will ban photo radar on municipal roads by next month. This is a reversal of his government’s 2019 legislation permitting their use, citing an “out of control” program. It seems that most, if …
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September 2025 The National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, is a 1,120,000 square feet museum dedicated to telling the story of the United States Air Force and its predecessor services, starting with the Aeronautical Division, Signal Corps in 1907. The museum dates to 1923, when the Engineering Division at McCook …
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September 2025 Wow, what a difference a week can make. I started writing this column when the future of of Jimmy Kimmel’s late night talk show, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, was in doubt. Now, I have to re-write sections of this column as the American Broadcasting Network (ABC) and its owner, the Walt Disney Company, have …
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September 2025 For nearly 170 years, there had been a church on Nottawasaga 33/34 Sideroad in Clearview Township, in southern Ontario. Geographically situated at Part Lot 33, Concession 9, in what was then Nottawasaga Township, the West Nottawasaga Presbyterian Church had been in existence longer than Canada has been a country. The land for the …
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Published in the Hamilton Spectator, 19 September 2025 Re: Editorial Cartoon, Carney and Poilievre have competing projects underway, Sept. 13 I always enjoy editorial cartoons, even ones that mock politicians and parties that I support. However, Graeme MacKay shouldn’t get too smug just yet. The list of nation-building projects that Prime Minister Mark Carney recently announced, …
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September 2025 Re: “Lawlessness going unchecked in Canada’s biggest city” (Jerry Agar, Toronto Sun, 9 September): I usually agree with Jerry Agar, but on this one I disagree with his assertion that the infamous Parkside Drive camera, which was cut down for the 7th time in 10 months recently, or any speed camera, isn’t a …
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Published in the Toronto Sun, 14 September 2025 There are some truly sickening people out there, practically dancing in the streets in the wake of the senseless assassination of American conservative commentator Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University. So tell me, you soulless ghouls, how should Erika Kirk, Kirk’s widow, explain to her children why …
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