Jul 21 2021
July 2021 An undeniable truth is that there are many, many Canadian veterans, who voluntarily left military service prior to reaching the mandatory 12-year service requirement for the Canadian Forces Decoration (CD). This can be a bit of a sore point for many veterans around Remembrance Day, when veterans proudly display their service medals while …
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Jul 20 2021
July 2021 “…when officers die in the line of duty they are treated as heroes, but if they sacrifice their mental health serving their community, we treat them as pariahs.” – David Butt, Barrister. “They say they support you, but they don’t. They have posters and they tweet out on mental health day but when …
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Jul 16 2021
July 2021 Near the intersection of Highway 9 and County Road 50, on the border between Wellington and Simcoe Counties is a short road called Ballycroy Road. This road, along with the old General Store, attached house and barn, are all that remains of the former Town of Ballycroy. Established in the 1820s, and geographically …
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Jul 14 2021
July 2021 Air travel is a very safe way to travel, with thousands of flights taking off and landing safely every day around the world. However, when things go wrong, the results can be catastrophic. On 5 July 1970, Air Canada Flight 621, a Douglas DC-8, took off from Montreal–Dorval International Airport in Montreal, Quebec, …
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Jul 11 2021
July 2021 With the discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at former Indian Residential Schools in Kamloops, British Columbia and the Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan, fresh in my mind, I visited the remains of the abandoned Spanish Indian Residential School in Spanish, Ontario. What became the Spanish Indian Residential School has its beginnings with …
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Jul 07 2021
July 2021 So, Toronto city Council given approval for the re-naming of Dundas Street, an action that is estimated to cost between $5 million and $6.3 million. Of course, we all know this means it will actually cost around $10 million, at minimum, but I digress. Seeing as Toronto Council has so much spare money …
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Jul 06 2021
July 2021 The Lookout Inn, overlooking Lake Nippising, in Callander, Ontario, was a popular hotel that operated from the mid-1950s until closing in late 1980s. Its dining area and patio provided a great view overlooking Lake Nipissing. Reportedly, one of the original owners hanged herself in the hotel, after losing her daughter in a drowning …
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Jul 02 2021
July 2021 Rosa Parks is an icon in the American civil rights movement, best remembered for her brave stand against Alabama’s segregation laws in the 1950s. On 1 December 1955, Parks was arrested after refusing an order by Montgomery, Alabama, bus driver James F. Blake, to vacate her seat in the “coloured” section of the …
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Jun 27 2021
June 2021 Light rail transit services have been a popular public transportation choice for cities since the 1800s. Some are built at grade on public streets, while others are built on their own dedicated corridor, sometimes above ground, and sometimes below grade. When the Erie Canal in western New York State was re-routed to bypass …
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Jun 26 2021
June 2021 Earlier this month, Canadians were shocked to learn of the discovery of the unmarked graves of 215 Indigenous children who were buried on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in Kamloops, British Columbia. While Indigenous people have spoken for years about these unmarked and largely forgotten (at least by non-Indigenous …
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