Nov 11 2024
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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Nov 06 2024
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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Nov 05 2024
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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Oct 31 2024
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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Oct 23 2024
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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Oct 18 2024
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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Oct 17 2024
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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Oct 16 2024
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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Oct 13 2024
October 2024 Should Canada have mandatory voting? Well, that depends on whether we can better inform voters or not. Voting, whether it’s mandatory or not, rarely comes to any good if the voter is clueless to the important issues and the track record of the political candidate. Arguments have been made that getting to the …
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Oct 12 2024
October 2024 On 27 December 2022, 28-year-old Provincial Constable Grzegorz “Greg” Pierzchala, a rookie member of the Ontario Provincial Police, Haldimand detachment, was shot and killed while responding to a report of a vehicle in a ditch near the Town of Hagersville. It was nothing short of an ambush attack, with Pierzchala not even having …
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