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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January 2024 The arrest of Rebel News reporter David Menzies by the RCMP security detail for Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland for scrumming her outside the Richmond Hill Performing Arts Centre on 8 January, should be very alarming to all Canadians. Freeland was attending a memorial vigil for the victims of the shooting down of …
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January 2024 Most Canadians understand the necessity to pay taxes in order to fund government operations and our social services. They may not like the fact that taxes have a negative effect it has on their bank balance, but they can at least understand. However, when you come across government waste, it can be a …
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December 2023 Memorial Park, in downtown Port Hope, Ontario, is a popular gathering place. Complete with a playground for the children, a bandshell, the town’s cenotaph and plenty of open space for leisure, it also has something that looks quite out of place. What looks like a tombstone found in a typical cemetery, is actually …
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December 2023 So, now that the Trudeau Government has officially decreed that they will be going forward with the elimination of sales of gas-powered vehicles, I’m publicly challenging the major auto manufacturers to decide whether they’re going to follow this order, or sell products that the buying public actually want to buy. Bottom line, no …
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December 2023 Re: “Sneaky renaming of Dundas Square to Sankofa Square is revisionist madness” (Joe Warmington, Toronto Sun, 15 Dec.): Oy Vey!! In a decision that could have been ripped from a headline from satirical news outlets like The Onion or The Babylon Bee, Toronto City Council voted to change the name of Yonge-Dundas Square …
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December 2023 Innisfil Town Hall played host to the lighting of the sixth candle on the Menorah, lit by Rabbi Zevi Kaplan of Chabad Innisfil. With the horrors of the 7 October terrorist attack on Israel still fresh in everyone’s mind, the assembled crowd of Innisfil Jewish families and non-Jewish supporters celebrated the sixth day of …
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December 2023 A large, enthusiastic and festive crowd, attended Barrie City Hall on 7 December, for the annual Chanukah Fest and Grand Menorah Lighting, making a strong statement of Jewish pride and resilience. With the horrors of the 7 October terrorist attack on Israel still fresh in everyone’s mind, the assembled crowd of Jewish families and non-Jewish …
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November 2023 On 5 November, I took my daughter to her first “official” concert: Depeche Mode. The band were on their Memento Mori Tour, in support of the album of the same name. I say first “official” because we had twice been to concerts before, once when she was eight, but we had to leave …
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November 2023 Since the mid-nineteenth century, the railways were once a vital transportation link for the movement of people and goods in the days before the automobile and paved roads. Alma, Ontario, a former unincorporated village in Mapletown Township, Ontario, has an interesting roadside attraction that acknowledges this link to the past. Sitting beside a …
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