Jul 13 2026
July 2026 “I didn’t give up. I just couldn’t carry on. There’s a difference.” (Unknown author) I wish I could remember who is credited with the above statement, but it rings very true to me. An analogy that I use is you can have the world’s most powerful car, a 2,300-horsepower Koenigsegg Gemera, but if …
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Jul 12 2026
July 2026 The George F. Johnson Recreation Park Carousel, found in Binghamton, New York, is one of six historic wooden carousels found in the city known as the “Carousel Capital of the World.” It was the creation of the park’s namesake, George F. Johnson, a Binghamton native and businessman, who donated the eighteen acre property …
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Jul 11 2026
Published in the Toronto Sun, 10 July 2026 DEVELOPING NEWS Re “Taxpayers on the hook” (Ling Hui, Toronto Sun, June 29): Prime Minister Mark Carney admits that “no developer asked for this from me directly” and that his “new” government had done a “poor job” of explaining his latest example of corporate welfare. So, this …
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Jul 01 2026
July 2026 The summer of 2026 will be another busy year for Marisa Scheinfeld, a Brooklyn, NY-born photographer and author who is heading up a project to honour and memorialize what was once known as America’s Jewish Vacationland, colloquially known as the Borscht Belt. An enthusiastic crowd gathered in a parkette, locally referred to as …
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Jun 26 2026
Thousands of police officers marched along Dixon Road to the Toronto Congress Centre in Etobicoke in remembrance of Constable Marc Pinizzotto, an 18-year veteran of the Toronto Police Service, was fatally shot 11 June while executing a search warrant. Another week, another police funeral. It’s been a rough couple of months for the policing family …
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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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