September 2025 Prime Minister Mark Carney recently announced his government will not implement a mandate requiring that 20 per cent of all new vehicles sold in Canada by next year be electric, with current sales are less than half that, while promising a 60-day review of the country’s electric-vehicle program. Prime Minister, cancel the electric …
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And the winner of the Chutzpah Award is……..
September 2025 This week’s winner of the “Chutzpah Award” goes to the Ontario Public Service, for complaining that Premier Doug Ford’s order that they return to the office 5-days-a-week, will mean added cost for them for things like childcare and travel. Now, I do have some questions: 1) What were you doing before the pandemic? …
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Is clean energy still the future?
September 2025 Re: “Clean energy still the future” (Butts, Nicholson & Smith, Hamilton Spectator, 2 August): Maybe it’s just me, but I noticed this column contains a lot of future, and maybe unrealistic, projections that may or may not be grounded in any reasonable logic. The authors repeatedly make comments of target levels that have …
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Bullying is a problem for adults too
September 2025 Re: “Bullying still big problem for kids” (Jane Stevenson, Toronto Sun, 2 September): How about bullying amongst adults? Unfortunately, bullying doesn’t end upon reaching adulthood. Just like in childhood, there is really only one way to combat bullying, and that is with swift and harsh punishment, something our schools, workplaces and legal system …
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B.C. Court Ruling Exposes Progressive Hypocrisy
August 2025 A landmark ruling in a British Columbia court by Justice Barbara Young on 7 August, upheld the indigenous right to reclaim ancestral lands by granting title and fishing rights to the Cowichan Nation in regions of the Lower Mainland based on their historic territory. This ruling was predicated on UNDRIP issuing a non-binding …
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Sports field dedicated to Barrie-born Canadian Sports Hall of Fame inductee now just a memory
August 2025 Today, it’s an empty, overgrown field. However, just nine short years ago, this was the sports field for Barrie Central Collegiate, in Barrie, Ontario, as it had since 1951. Known as Red Storey Field, the sports field named after Canadian Sports Hall of Fame winner and Barrie native Alvin “Red” Storey. Generations of …
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Lindsay man charged with assaulting a criminal who broke into his home
August 2025 While on the surface, it’s quite satisfying to hear that a previously convicted criminal received a serious beat-down when breaking into a private residence, I’ll reserve judgment on whether the homeowner should be facing charges too, until more details are available. Bottom line, Canadians don’t enjoy the same legal protections regarding defending yourself, …
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The Golden Age Of The Iron Bridge in Sullivan County
August 2025 Sullivan County in south-eastern New York State is known known for being a significant part of the Borscht Belt, the vacation land for New York City-area Jewish families prior to integration. The county also has a collection of historic iron bridges from an age when bridge construction was transitioning from wood framed construction …
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It’s way beyond the time to get tough on crime in Toronto
August 2025 So, the citizens of Toronto want police to do something about the brazen shooting sprees that have been terrorizing the city for years. You know, like the ones that claim the lives of young children in their beds, or a mother of two children outside a Leslieville “safe” injection site. Well, there are …
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Canada’s War Dead Honoured in Fairview Cemetery in Niagara Falls
August 2025 The National War Memorial in Ottawa, Ontario, was officially dedicated on 21 May 1939, originally to commemorate Canadians who died in World War I. By 1982, it was re-dedicated to honour those who died World War II and the Korean War, with dedications to those lost in the Second Boer War and Afghanistan …
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