Aug 11 2018
August 2018 Regarding the dispute with Saudi Arabia, Justin Trudeau has a real opportunity to show some true leadership here. What we should do in response to Saudi Arabia’s actions is immediately start ramping up our own oil industry so we can stop importing Saudi oil. Get the Energy East, Trans Mountain, Northern Gateway and …
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Aug 04 2018
August 2018 The controversy over the revocation of the 2015 sex ed curriculum has made me think back to my own sex education. I’m a member of Generation X, so I went through my teen years in the 1980s. I honestly don’t remember much of the sex education I received in school beyond the Phys …
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Jul 31 2018
July 2018 On an elevated piece of land in Saskatchewan, just east of the Alberta border, sits a lonely and neglected radar tower. This is the sole remaining radar tower of what was once Royal Canadian Air Force Station Alsask, an Air Defence radar station on the Pinetree Line. The Pinetree Line stretched across the …
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Jul 28 2018
July 2018 General Sir Arthur Currie, GCMG, KCB, has the unique distinction of being the first Canadian soldier to command the Canadian Corps, a post he was elevated to in 1917. Making this accomplishment even more significant is the fact that he rose to this position after beginning his military career in the Canadian militia …
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Jul 20 2018
July 2018 The Great Lakes have been a major shipping route across the northern United States and southern Canada since the first fir traders came to North America. The biggest of the lakes is Lake Superior, a lake that can turn violent when the weather turns bad. On 10 November 1975, the American Great Lakes …
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Jul 15 2018
Toronto Sun 17 July 2018 Groan. OK, everyone take a deep breath and can we cut back on the hyperbole? Firstly, Doug Ford’s government won’t be using the old curriculum in perpetuity; they will be introducing their own revised curriculum. Now if we’re four years down the road and there still isn’t an updated curriculum, …
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Jul 14 2018
July 2018 Justin Trudeau is a stunning hypocrite, as well as being a fake feminist. By now, most in Canada and around the world are familiar with the accusation that Justin Trudeau groped a female reporter at a fundraiser in Cresten, British Columbia in 2000. The reporter, Rose Knight, was so distressed by this assault …
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Jul 07 2018
July 2018 Re: “Entitled to entitlements,” (Mark Bonokoski, Toronto Sun, 24 June): besides Bev Oda’s $16 glass of orange juice, remember when Harper’s Chief of Staff Nigel Wright wrote a personal cheque to the federal treasury to cover Senator Mike Duffy’s $90, 000 worth of disallowed expenses and was forced to resign as a result? …
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Jul 07 2018
July 2018 In Barry’s Bay, there is a small park dedicated to decorated WWII flying hero and post-war test pilot Janusz (Jan) Zurakowski, appropriately called Zurakowski Park. Many will remember Zurakowski as the first pilot to fly Canada’s legendary jet-fighter, the CF-105 Avro Arrow. Zurakowski received many honours in his lifetime, but the dedication of …
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Jul 06 2018
July 2018 In the years surrounding the U.S. Civil War, Simcoe County in southern Ontario was at the end of the Underground Railroad, a network of secret routes and safe houses used by escaped slaves to freedom in in the British Colonies of Upper Canada, Lower Canada, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Some estimates indicate …
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