Jun 28 2025
June 2025 Covered bridges were once quite popular across North America throughout the 19th century. Back when wood was inexpensive and commonly used in bridge construction, there was an obvious benefit to adding walls and roofs to slow deterioration caused by rain, snow and the sun. Covered bridges, a timber-truss structure with a roof, decking …
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Jun 24 2025
June 2025 On 22 June, the second annual Ontario Police Suicide Memorial service, held on the grounds of the Ontario Police Memorial beside Queen’s Park in Toronto. This ceremony and what it signifies means a lot to me. I’m a retired West Grey Police Service officer and I almost ended up on the Honour Roll. …
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Jun 18 2025
June 2025 On 7 October 2023, a group of around 6, 000 terrorists with the death cult Hamas breached the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel, and launched an armed attack against civilians attending the Nova Music Festival near Kibbutz Re’im, in southern Israel. The barbaric attack began at 06:29 hours, as the sun …
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Jun 16 2025
June 2025 In December 2024, a small parkette was dedicated in Springwater Township, west of Barrie, Ontario. Dedicated in honour of the centennial of the Royal Canadian Air Force, a retired Canadair CT-133 Silver Star jet trainer, is the centrepiece of memorial parkette. Seven plaques are found along a short walking path around the parkette, …
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Jun 16 2025
June 2025 “First off, I’ve said repeatedly: yes. First point,” Carney said in an exclusive interview with CTV News’ Chief Political Correspondent Vassy Kapelos. Prime Minister Mark “His Majesty” Carney went further on Tuesday, explicitly saying he supports building a pipeline if the consensus exists for one. If there is consensus? Oy veh! Yep, there …
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Jun 13 2025
June 2025 The infamous Marigold Hotel is no more. While the building still stands, so far, it’s been turned into a rotting corpse of a building. In just two short years, vandals, the elements and water damage, have turned it into a dilapidated mess. Sitting on the busy Queen Street East in Brampton, Ontario, not …
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Jun 05 2025
June 2025 Gage Park is an iconic jewel in the southern Ontario city of Hamilton. The 30-hectare multi-use park was created in the 1920s in a style reflective of the Canadian City Beautiful movement, featuring outstanding gardens, a large selection of trees, including Cherry Blossom trees that attract large crowds every spring, a 14,000 square-foot …
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Jun 05 2025
June 2025 Penetanguishene, Ontario, has a new tourist attraction, and it’s completely free. Welcome to Tiny Town, the passion project of Shelley and Mike Duval, built right in their backyard. What started as simply a privacy fence, built beginning in 2021 by Mike, at the request of his beloved wife of over five decades, it …
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Jun 04 2025
Published in Barrie Today, 4 June 2025 LETTER: Sir John A’s record leaves little reason to honour him on pedestal Letter writer Melanie Duckett-Wilson (“Sir John A’s record leaves little reason to honour him on pedestal,” Barrie Today, 2 June) must live in a very special world, where nothing bad ever happens. A lot of …
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May 28 2025
May 2025 A lonely building of Edwardian Classical architecture sits at the edge of a woodlot, along the edge of the Niagara Escarpment in Hamilton, Ontario. Abandoned since 2013, this building, known as the Chedoke Hospital Long & Bisby Building, is one of the few reminders of the former Chedoke Sanatorium, also known as the …
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