December 2023 Innisfil Town Hall played host to the lighting of the sixth candle on the Menorah, lit by Rabbi Zevi Kaplan of Chabad Innisfil. With the horrors of the 7 October terrorist attack on Israel still fresh in everyone’s mind, the assembled crowd of Innisfil Jewish families and non-Jewish supporters celebrated the sixth day of …
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December 2023 A large, enthusiastic and festive crowd, attended Barrie City Hall on 7 December, for the annual Chanukah Fest and Grand Menorah Lighting, making a strong statement of Jewish pride and resilience. With the horrors of the 7 October terrorist attack on Israel still fresh in everyone’s mind, the assembled crowd of Jewish families and non-Jewish …
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November 2023 On 5 November, I took my daughter to her first “official” concert: Depeche Mode. The band were on their Memento Mori Tour, in support of the album of the same name. I say first “official” because we had twice been to concerts before, once when she was eight, but we had to leave …
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November 2023 Since the mid-nineteenth century, the railways were once a vital transportation link for the movement of people and goods in the days before the automobile and paved roads. Alma, Ontario, a former unincorporated village in Mapletown Township, Ontario, has an interesting roadside attraction that acknowledges this link to the past. Sitting beside a …
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November 2023 Stunning news! Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault just lost a federal court case on 16 November, with Justice Angela Furlanetto ruling that Guilbeault’s order labelling all plastics products as toxic is “both unreasonable and unconstitutional.” Are we finally seeing the turning of the tide against Trudeau’s woke, virtue-signaling, economy-killing agenda? Combined with Prime Minister …
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November 2023 The Butler name is one that is intertwined with the history of the Niagara area. Lieutenant-Colonel John Butler was a soldier in the British Army in the 18th Century who played a significant role in the founding of the new settlement at Niagara, in what was then known as Upper Canada. Born in …
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November 2023 On 10 November 2023, Beth Tzedec Congregation and the Toronto Holocaust Museum held a commemoration of the 85th anniversary of the Kristallnacht, also known as the Night of Broken Glass, as a part of Neuberger Holocaust Education Week. This was pogrom carried out against Jews by the Nazi Party’s Sturmabteilung (SA) paramilitary and Schutzstaffel (SS) paramilitary forces, along with …
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11 November 2023 Re: “Lest we forget: They made the ultimate sacrifice” (Toronto Sun Editorial, 11 November): I realize your list of Canadian involvement wasn’t meant to be a comprehensive list, but another to add to it is “The Great Escape.” While the 1963 movie was very entertaining, it was sadly historically incorrect. Many of …
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November 2023 The Village of Ellenville, in the Catskills region of eastern New York State, is the home to a new museum, dedicated to showcasing the history of America’s Jewish Vacationland. The Borscht Belt Museum will commemorate and tell the story of the Borscht Belt, an era when millions of urban dwellers sought refuge in …
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November 2023 Well, now that my supply of “single-use” plastic shopping bags is running low, I recently purchased some Glad Kitchen Catchers to line the garbage cans in my house. Yay, I’m saving the planet by not using “single-use” plastic shopping bags anymore!!! This is just another perfect example of “Political Environmentalism,” not the realistic …
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