November 2024 The trash talking, the body slams, the flying leaps of the turnbuckle. They were all there and more on 2 November at Ferris Lane Community Church in Barrie, Ontario. The family-friendly pro wrestling company had their first event ever back on 1 November 2014, and have been providing a mix of hard-hitting action, …
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HMCS Harry DeWolf makes a stop in Hamilton during the Great Lakes Deployment of 2024
November 2024 One of Canada’s newest naval ships was making the rounds of cities in southern Ontario, as part of the annual Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) Great Lakes deployment. HMCS Harry DeWolf, one of the navy’s new Arctic Patrol Vessels, has been on the annual public relations tour, as they did last year. Named after …
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Sunshine sketches of Mariposa – Historic home celebrates the life of Canadian satirist Stephen Leacock
November 2024 Nestled along the shore of Lake Couchiching, sits the stately, 19-room house that served as the summer home of Canadian author and satirist Stephen Leacock. This house represents Stephen Leacock’s love of the small Ontario town of Orillia, immortalized as the mythical Mariposa in his best-seller book “Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town.” …
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The Egg – Albany’s Center for the Performing Arts
November 2024 Many communities have a performance arts centre where stage plays and musical acts entertain patrons. When the City of Albany, New York, decided to build a new performance arts centre in the 1960s, they went with a very unique design. The Egg Center for the Performing Arts was built between 1966 and 1978, …
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Young Canadians are facing a mental health crisis because of the “Climate Crisis”
November 2024 “…we’ve learned in the House of Commons, if you repeat it, if you say it louder, if that is your talking point, people will totally believe it.” Then-Environment Minister Catherine McKenna, in May 2019. Re: “Tax Alternative” (Letters to the Editor, Toronto Sun, 4 November 2024): The letter writer laments that young Canadians …
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Vanished Villages of Vaughan Township – Teston
October 2024 Within the growing and busy City of Vaughan, north of Toronto, Ontario, is the former unincorporated village of Teston. In the years after what was then known as Vaughan Township was surveyed in 1792, small communities were established at various street corners throughout the 105 square miles of land within its borders. Founded …
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After 66 years, is Hamilton’s iconic Lakeland Go-Karts is closing?
October 2024 Lakeland Kartway has been a fixture of the beach strip area in Hamilton for 66 years, but the seasonal operation may have seen its last summer. The scheduled closure of the popular go-kart track, the oldest one in Canada, came as a shock to residents of the southern Ontario city and its neighbouring …
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Richmond Hill pays tribute to Terry Fox and his ambitious Marathon of Hope
October 2024 It was 24 July 1980, when Terry Fox ran along Yonge Street in Richmond Hill, Ontario, past a small parkette on the east side of the road. The young Canadian runner had begun his cross-Canada run, the Marathon of Hope, in support of cancer research a little over two-months prior in St. John’s Newfoundland. …
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The house that chicken bought – Mississauga home once owned by Colonel Sanders
October 2024 Regardless of whether you are a fan of fried chicken or not, everyone knows the name and face of one of the most successful fried chicken restauranteurs in modern history, the man referred to simply as “The Colonel.” Colonel Harland Sanders was the Indiana-born businessman and founder of fast food chicken restaurant chain …
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Release the names and stop playing political games, Prime Minister
Published in the Toronto Sun, 19 October 2024 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau: RELEASE. THE. NAMES. It shouldn’t matter that Pierre Poilievre doesn’t want to get his security clearance updated so he can view the report. If this is such a national security issue, and it is, that you would publicly state that there are Conservatives …
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