February 2025 Sometimes, it’s worth the wait. English band Tears For Fears has been having a busy couple of years recently, with a new album, The Tipping Point, a world tour, a live album, and a concert film. Not bad for two guys in their mid-sixties. Tears For Fears were one of the biggest bands …
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August 2024 Another year has passed. Police officers see all the good and bad that society has to offer, sometimes when people are having what may be the worst day of their life. In the case of Colleen Lantz, it was beyond the worst day of her life. I won’t go into all the detail …
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June 2024 The history of World War II includes many significant battles and stories of courage and sacrifice. One of the best known stories that took place far from the battlefields of Europe came to be known as The Great Escape. In March 1944, a mass escape of British and Commonwealth airmen took place at …
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January 2024 It is with great sadness that the Forsyth family announces the passing of Colonel (Ret’d) James Charles Forsyth, CStJ, CD, CA, on 11 January 2024, at the age of 85. Born in Hamilton on 1 June 1938, the son of the late Maurice & Lillian (Denver) Forsyth. James was a graduate of Central Secondary …
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November 2023 On 10 November 2023, Beth Tzedec Congregation and the Toronto Holocaust Museum held a commemoration of the 85th anniversary of the Kristallnacht, also known as the Night of Broken Glass, as a part of Neuberger Holocaust Education Week. This was pogrom carried out against Jews by the Nazi Party’s Sturmabteilung (SA) paramilitary and Schutzstaffel (SS) paramilitary forces, along with …
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11 November 2023 Re: “Lest we forget: They made the ultimate sacrifice” (Toronto Sun Editorial, 11 November): I realize your list of Canadian involvement wasn’t meant to be a comprehensive list, but another to add to it is “The Great Escape.” While the 1963 movie was very entertaining, it was sadly historically incorrect. Many of …
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August 2023 Police officers frequently become desensitized to the tragedies that we see in the course of our duties. We can’t get too emotionally involved in the calls we attend, otherwise we wouldn’t be able to do our jobs for long. We compartmentalize, develop dark senses of humour and sometimes crack jokes that could be …
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14 August 2023 Well, not exactly the world, but it was still big. It was 14 August 2003, when a widespread power outage hit the Northeastern and Midwestern parts of America, and a big part of the Canadian province of Ontario, beginning just after 4:10 p.m. EDST. Now known as the Northeast Blackout of 2003, it …
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May 2023 The Rolling Stones are considered by many to be one of the greatest rock and roll bands in history. Formed in London, England, in 1962, the band would quickly rocket to stardom as the “Bad Boys” of rock and roll; the as the antithesis to the Beatles. After going through a couple of …
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March 2023 At 1pm on Monday, March 20, a small contingent from Canadian Forces Ammunition Depot Angus at Base Borden gathered at the cenotaph in the Village of Angus, just north of the base. Lead by Depot Commanding Officer Major Marvin Lacea, CD, they were there to honour the six civilians and one airman who …
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