May 30 2024
May 2024 For a man who loved football, the re-naming of Centennial Park football stadium to Rob Ford Stadium on 28 May, the day that would have been Ford’s 55th birthday, is a fitting tribute. The newly-rechristened Rob Ford Stadium is a 2,200-seat stadium, opened in 1975 in the Toronto suburb of Etobicoke, that is primarily …
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May 29 2024
May 2024 Three years after the shocking announcement that the “bodies” of 215 Indigenous children had been “found” in unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Residential School, can we finally acknowledge that it appears that it was all a lie? Not one unmarked grave containing the body of an Indigenous child has been found. Not …
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May 26 2024
May 2024 The historic southern Ontario town of Penetanguishene is a small, bilingual town with a history that goes back to the early days of New France and the French explorers who helped settle North America. French translator Étienne Brûlé was the first European to set foot in the Penetanguishene area around 1610, where he …
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May 21 2024
May 2024 Meridian Place in downtown Barrie, Ontario, was a busy place on Sunday, 19 May, for Barrie’s second annual Ukrainian Vyshyvanka Day Festival. Hosted by the Ukrainian Community in Barrie, Vyshyvanka Day is an annual holiday celebrated internationally, where Ukrainians celebrate their heritage and the symbol of the iconic Ukrainian embroidered shirt (vyshyvanka). With …
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May 20 2024
May 2024 I hope all the electric vehicle enthusiasts aren’t crying too many tears into their triple-foam, half-caff lattes or on their avocado toast, but Mercedes-Benz recently announced at their annual shareholder’s meeting that their plan to manufacture only electric vehicles after 2030 has been put on hold. CEO Ola Källenius announced that “There will …
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May 17 2024
May 2024 The Queen’s Hotel in the southern Ontario city of Barrie has been an institution for almost 175 years. Beginning as a tavern in 1850, it was known as Marks’ Hotel back then, named after proprietor Edward Marks. The three-storey brick hotel on Dunlop Street East, no longer offers rooms for the night, but …
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May 16 2024
May 2024 From the files of Captain Obvious, it appears that while the $10 per day daycare program may have made for a great campaign promise, delivering it has been another story. How is a business supposed to make a profit if it can’t cover its expenses? Even not-for-profit businesses, a name that is a …
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May 13 2024
May 2024 Chris Aylward, President of the Public Service Alliance of Canada, says the union in promising a “summer of discontent” after the Liberal government has mandated that federal public servants must return to the office three days a week. It looks like the federal public service love affair with Trudeau is in the past, …
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May 07 2024
May 2024 Thousands of police officers from Canada, America and abroad, marched through the street around Queen’s Park in Toronto in commemoration of police officers who have died in the line of duty in Ontario on Sunday, 5 May. While thunderstorms threatened to roll through the area, the rain fortunately held off for the day, …
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May 07 2024
May 2024 Toronto Police Superintendent Stacy Clarke may have been “frustrated and desperate” at what she saw as unfairness in the police promotion process, but I don’t care. Her conduct was disgraceful and she deserves the maximum penalty of termination after pleading guilty to seven counts of misconduct. Clarke had been charged under the Ontario …
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