May 22 2020
May 2020 While we likely will never stop trading with China, I think we seriously need to question why we rely on them so much for a lot of the merchandise in our stores, and other needed items like medical supplies and pharmaceuticals. Now, I do understand why so many of the things for sale …
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May 21 2020
May 2020 Even though governments and environmentalists do their best to convince the general public that electric cars are the way of the future and that the days are numbered for cars powered by fossil fuels, the general public doesn’t seem to be playing along. Electric vehicles still have some serious obstacles and limitations that …
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May 19 2020
May 2020 Originally built in 1904 as the flagship station of the Grand Trunk Railroad, the Allandale station was part of the transportation corridor between Toronto and the GTR’s northern Ontario operations. Located in the former Village of Allandale, which had been annexed by the Town of Barrie seven years earlier, it was given the …
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May 18 2020
May 2020 Snowbirds Public Affairs Officer Captain Jennifer Casey has been named as the victim in a horrific crash of an RCAF Tudor jet in a residential neighbourhood in Kamloops, B.C. on 17 May 2020. The famed RCAF Snowbirds, officially designated as 431 Air Demonstration Squadron, were on a cross-Canada tour, “Operation Inspiration,” a moral …
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May 18 2020
May 2020 Even though we are still living with the deadly Wuhan coronavirus, we do need to begin the process of returning to some semblance of a normal society. We have to balance the risk of death from infection, with the deaths from lack of surgeries and medical treatments like cancer, from suicide due to …
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May 14 2020
May 2020 The Greater Toronto Area has many interesting buildings and structures, including several concrete arch and reinforced concrete bowstring arch bridges, all designed by Engineer Frank Barber in the early 20th century. Three of the Barber-designed bowstring arch bridges stretch across the Humber River as it runs through the City of Vaughan, then known …
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May 12 2020
May 2020 A recent MSN news report hypothesises what the after-effects the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic will have on the way hotels do business in the future. Some of these make sense, like receiving an electronic bill instead of a paper bill on checkout, along with a greater use of electronic check-in by using your cell …
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May 11 2020
May 2020 Now that we have suffered though SARS and the Wuhan coronavirus, will we listen to the Taiwanese and Chinese ex-Pats the next time they try to warn us about another coronavirus coming out of China? It’s disgraceful that Chinese-Canadians, including journalists from The Epoch Times, were dismissed as being racist and xenophobic when …
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May 08 2020
8 May 2020 It was 75 years ago, 8 May 1945, that the Nazi War Machine surrendered unconditionally to the Allied Forces, ending the war in Europe. More than one million Canadians and Newfoundlanders served in World War II; more than 45,000 gave their lives and another 55,000 were wounded. The Royal Canadian Navy, the …
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May 08 2020
May 2020 Although I don’t own a cottage, nor know anyone who does, I’m going to throw my two-cents in to the discussion. While the permanent residents of our cottage regions are entitled to their opinions, I’m not buying a lot of the arguments they are putting forth. They are concerned that the local businesses, …
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