Category Archive: Original Writing

President Joe Biden will be making a big mistake by cancelling the Keystone XL pipeline

January 2021 We’re all told to follow the science when it comes to many things, including the current crisis with the Communist Chinese Party Virus. The current science indicates that pipelines are the safest and most environmentally responsible method of transporting fossil fuels. I want to make it very, very clear that everyone wants a …

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Legendary Canadian artist Tom Thomson remembered at Canoe Lake

January 2021 Tom Thomson was a Canadian artist, considered one of the most important and influential Canadian artists, known for the landscape paintings depicting the beauty of Ontario that he painted during his short life. An avid outdoorsman, Thomson produced around 400 oil sketches on small wood panels and around an additional 50 on canvas, …

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Grimsby’s historic Grout Nelles house gets a new lease on life

January 2021 In towns and cities across Canada, historic buildings are demolished all the time in the name of progress. Developers will pay big money for the land these buildings stand on, sometimes with little care for the significance of these buildings. In too many cases, the developers will allow the building to deteriorate to …

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Barrie’s historic Lount Castle lives on as a luxury apartment building

January 2021 The City of Barrie, 50 miles north of Toronto, has many historic buildings, but one of the more stunning is known as Lount’s Castle. Built in 1877 as a summer home for William Lount, Jr., a Toronto lawyer, judge and politician, and the son of United Empire Loyalist William Lount, Sr., who served …

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Ontario held hostage

January 2021 Now that Premier Doug Ford has declared a second provincial emergency lock-down, I thought everyone might like to know that according to the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control web site (https://www.cdc.gov.tw/en), as of 12 January, Taiwan has had 838 confirmed cases, and a grand total of SEVEN deaths, from the CCP Virus, out …

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What’s that saying about those who live in glass houses?

January 2021 The political establishment needs to take a good look in the mirror. As the experiment that was the Trump presidency comes to an end, the political establishment would be well-served if they subjected themselves to an honest assessment of why Trump was elected in the first place, why there is so much distrust …

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Let’s stop pretending we’re all in this together

January 2021 Despite the constant pleas from our elected officials and health unit leaders that we refrain from non-essential traveling, especially out of the country, and remain in our homes as much as possible, many prominent political and health officials have been outed as having ignored such recommendations. The latest to be outed is Halton …

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A sad end for the historic Preston Springs Hotel

January 2021 On the last day of 2020, demolition began on the historic Preston Springs Hotel, an iconic landmark, in Cambridge, Ontario. The abandoned hotel stood at the corner of Fountain Street and King Street, in what was formerly the Village of Preston, for 137 years. It’s now just a memory. Empty since 1990, when …

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Chinese Communist Party Virus will cause many of us all re-evaluate our lives

January 2021 The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Virus has definitely changed our world and will no doubt cause many of us to re-evaluate the way we live our lives. Most things will eventually go back to normal, but some may never. How many of us who weren’t already die-hard “cruisers” would want to go on …

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There’s blame to go around as Washington burns

January 2021 First, it was the Red Coats who burned Washington. Now two hundred years later, it’s the Red Hats. Firstly, I condemn the violence and anarchy that took place on Capital Hill on 6 January. That should not have happened! People have a right to express their displeasure with the results of the election, …

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