Jun 24 2026
June 2026 Generations of families have always enjoyed getting away from the crowded cities and having a leisurely vacation in a relaxed, peaceful and serene environment, perhaps on a lake, with the sound of rustling leaves from tall, mature trees. Numerous hotels once lined the shoreline of Lake Rosseau in the Muskoka Region of southern …
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Jun 23 2026
June 2026 Re: “Smuggled guns are a problem. Domestic guns are a bigger one. Both require action,” (Ken Price and Heidi Rathjen, The Hamilton Spectator, 17 June 2026): Has the RCMP debunked the gun smuggling myth? Not according to Halton Regional Police and Peel Regional Police, the latter of whom recently reported a seizure rate …
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Jun 18 2026
June 2026 Like many cities across North America, the small, single-screen independent movie theatres have been disappearing over the decades in favour of corporate-owned multiplex theatres, with double-digit screens and stadium seating. The few remaining independents survive as second-run theatres, or art-house theatres. Now known as the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema, the small theatre …
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Jun 12 2026
June 2026 Re: “Antisemitism in Canada more than an awareness problem,” (Simon Wolle, Toronto Sun, 8 June): B’nai Brith is advocating for “the establishment of a commission of inquiry, such as Royal Commission, to investigate the root causes of antisemitism in Canada.” Canada does have a shameful history of antisemitism, so we can’t forget that, …
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Jun 11 2026
June 2026 On 7 June, the third annual Ontario Police Suicide Memorial service was held on the grounds of the Ontario Legislature at Queen’s Park in Toronto. Unlike the existing police memorial, which pays tribute to police officers killed in the line of duty, the Ontario Police Suicide Memorial pays tribute to those who died …
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Jun 09 2026
June 2026 It was a great Saturday afternoon and night on the Barrie waterfront on 6 June, as the 2026 edition of the Troubadour Festival kicked off with its line-up for June. Headlining the day-long festival, where it was country music day, were The Road hammers, Canada’s hardest driving country music band, led by Barrie-born …
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Jun 08 2026
June 2026 Okay America, I say enough with all the trade issues and tariffs. Americans need to admit that you need a good trade deal with Canada; maybe not as much as Canada needs one with you, but you still need us more than President Donald Trump is admitting, at least publicly. If President Trump …
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Jun 04 2026
June 2026 Ghost towns are “a once flourishing town wholly or nearly deserted usually as a result of the exhaustion of some natural resource,” as defined by Webster’s Dictionary. Cooper’s Falls is one of the many former villages in the Muskoka Region of southern Ontario that faded away after the logging industry declined. Along a …
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May 30 2026
May 2026 Like many provincial highways across Ontario, Highway 11 was once dotted with roadside motels that catered to weary travellers. The highway originally stretched from Lake Ontario in Toronto to the Minnesota-Ontario border at Rainy River in northern Ontario, but the section south of Barrie has been downgraded to a municipal highway. The Comfort …
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May 29 2026
May 2026 – Published in the Toronto Sun, 20 June 2026 QUESTION OF SEPARATIONRe: “Danielle Smith started a fire and Alberta — and Canada — will suffer for it” (Warren Kinsella, May 27): While I do agree with Warren and Karl Belanger that Smith has opened up a messy can of worms by advocating for …
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