Mar 25 2021
March 2021 It’s disappointing to hear musician Sting express his regret at having re-grouped with Stuart Copeland and Andy Summers, his bandmates with the New Wave band The Police for a reunion tour back in 2007-2008. Sting was quoted in a recent interview with Reader’s Digest, saying, “At the time I labelled the tour an …
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Mar 22 2021
March 2021 So, the Conservative Party members rejected a party motion to “…recognize that climate change is real” and enshrine it as official Conservative party policy. I say good, because the issue of climate change has turned protecting the environment into a cult-like prognostication of a horrific doom, unless we make human sacrifices to the …
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Mar 21 2021
March 2021 The Midhurst Community Centre building on Doran Road, in the small southern Ontario village of Midhurst is a fairly simple, small, non-descript building. This historic building serves as a meeting and special events facility for the small community in Springwater Township of around 3, 000 people, as it has since it was formally …
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Mar 16 2021
March 2021 Hamilton, Ontario, is an old city that has many historic buildings still standing, even as the city has grown and changed. Dundurn Castle, the LCol John Weir Foote, VC, CD Armouries, the Scottish Rite, the former Canadian National Railways station and the former Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo Railways station. Ravenscliffe Castle is a …
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Mar 16 2021
March 2021 The Royal Botanical Gardens (RBG) is a celebrated 2,422 acre nature sanctuary straddling the border of Burlington and Hamilton, at the tip of Lake Ontario, in the Golden Horseshoe area of southern Ontario. Officially established in 1941, through the over decade-long efforts of Thomas B. McQueston, Chair of the City of Hamilton Board …
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Mar 03 2021
March 2021 Now that six Dr. Seuss books, including If I Ran the Zoo and Scrambled Eggs Super!, have been banned for having racist and insensitive imagery, I guess this book from my own childhood will be banned too, if it hasn’t already. The Five Chinese Brothers is the heartwarming story of a little boy who …
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Mar 03 2021
March 2021 At the corner of Davenport Road and Bathurst Street in Toronto, Ontario, sits a small, white clapboard cottage, with a modern addition on the west side. This historic three room cottage, 20 feet by 30 feet in size, is listed by the City of Toronto as being the twelfth oldest residence remaining in …
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Mar 02 2021
This one is originally from June 2019, but got left in the vault. Re: More layoffs, program cuts expected as HDSB finalizing budget (Burlington Post, 6 June): Firstly, regarding the proposal to cut the 30-year old Bronte Creek Project, given this program used to attract upwards of 60 to 80 students a year and it …
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Mar 01 2021
March 2021 Some people are all too happy to heap scorn and condemnation on Mark Machin, former Chef Executive Officer of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), for traveling to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) during this pandemic. I have no idea whether his reasoning of “deeply personal” reasons is a valid one or …
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Feb 17 2021
February 2021 For those who still think it’s a great idea to de-fund the police, or even disband their police forces, Minneapolis City Council recently decided that disbanding their police force would be a bad idea, less than a year after the June 2020 vote. The inconvenient truth is that since that vote, crime in …
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