October 2023 Shipping canals have been an important part of water-based transportation of people and goods for centuries. The Erie Canal is a 351-mile long historic canal in upstate New York, running east-west from the Hudson River at Waterford, north of Albany, to Lake Erie at Tonawanda. As with most canals, a series of locks were constructed …
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October 2023 Since the early days of British North America, many towns and villages sprung up around rivers, where water-powered mills were built so that local farmers could easily transport their grain there to be milled. These communities were dependent on their local mill as bread was a staple part of the diet. Watson’s Mill is …
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October 2023 During a historic visit to Canada’s Parliament by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on 24 September, now-former Speaker Anthony Rota stood up in the House of Commons to introduce Yaroslav Hunka, a resident of his North Bay riding sitting in the visitor’s gallery who is a “…Ukrainian war veteran from the Second World War …
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October 2023 The Sound of Music Festival is an annual music festival in Burlington, Ontario, held in mid-June over the Father’s Day weekend. The free-admission festival, with paid VIP upgrades, is held in Spencer Smith Park along the city’s waterfront and throughout the downtown core, billing itself as “Canada’s Largest Free Music Festival.” Just two of the …
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October 2023 Back in 2021, the country was rocked by the shocking news, presented as “fact,” that the graves of 215 children buried at a former Indian residential school in Kamloops, BC, had been discovered. We were told that ground penetrating radar had located unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, but this …
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October 2023 The 15-Minute City might be a good idea in theory. The concept is a city design that enables residents to access most daily amenities within a 15 to 20-minute walk, bike or other mode of transportation from any point in a city, town or village regardless of size. However, the concept comes with …
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September 2023 A large crowd gathered on 18 September in a small park in Bradford, Ontario, for the official re-naming of Middleton Park to Constable Devon Northrup Memorial Park, in honor of the fallen 33-year-old South Simcoe Police officer killed in the line of duty almost exactly a year prior. On 11 October 2022, South …
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September 2023 Across Ontario, the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) is organizing a “No Spece For Hate In Ontario” campaign for the week of 20-25 September, with protests scheduled for various cities across the province. The OFL protest is meant to counter the “1 Million March For Children,” taking place on 20 September in numerous …
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September 2023 Black Creek Pioneer Village, previously known as Dalziel Pioneer Park, is an open-air living heritage museum in Toronto, Ontario, in 1960, consisting of more than 30 historic buildings arranged in a village setting. Built on the original farm of Daniel Stong, an of Upper Canada, the village is a recreation of life in 19th-century …
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September 2023 Re: “Trudeau’s had his fill of volatile food prices” (Canadian Press, 15 September): As Chandler Bing might say, “Could Justin Trudeau be any more annoyingly dumb about economics?!” Reading both this column and the column “Axe the tax on farms and food,” by Franco Terrazzano, highlights why Trudeau is the problem here. It’s …
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