Jul 25 2020
July 2020 Premier Doug Ford recently criticized the dramatic increase in parking rates for municipal lots and street parking along the waterfront in Barrie to $10 per hour, calling it price gouging during a pandemic. As a Barrie resident, I’d like to offer some context to the issue. Part of the reason the waterfront parks …
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Jul 21 2020
July 2020 Toronto Mayor John Tory is definitely one of the most likable politicians out there. However, I think his proposed Rail Deck Park, a plan to build an approximately 20 acre park atop the rail corridor rail corridor between Bathurst Street and Blue Jays Way, in downtown Toronto, should be put on ice, perhaps …
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Jul 21 2020
July 2020 The former Canadian National Railway (CNR) station in Orillia is facing an uncertain future after being sold to a developer. Originally built by the Grand Trunk Railway (GTR) in 1917, it became part of the CNR inventory when the GTR went bankrupt six years later. It replaced the original station, which was destroyed …
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Jul 16 2020
July 2020 The Grand Trunk Railway station in Caledonia is one of several restored railway stations that hearken back to the day of Canada’s “golden age” of railway travel, when railway stations had impressive and appealing architectural designs. The Grand Trunk Railway (GTR) built the current station in 1908, the third GTR railway station to …
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Jul 16 2020
July 2020 The Norfolk Carillon Tower, dedicated on 17 June 1925, was built to honour the men, and one woman, from Norfolk County, who were lost in The Great War. A carillon is a musical instrument that is usually housed in a bell tower on a church or other public building. Funds were raised by …
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Jul 16 2020
Published in the Toronto Sun 17 July 2020 Trudeau’s race relations. Oy vey! The jokes just keep writing themselves when it comes to Justin Trudeau. In reaction to a disgusting incident on 5 July at a T&T Supermarket in Mississauga, where a 48-year-old male, identified by Peel Police as John McCash, launched into an almost …
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Jul 16 2020
July 2020 Large parts of the earth feature rolling topography; any land formation, hill, or raised land, that is not high enough to be considered a mountain, that has been formed by erosion or some other force in nature like glaciers. Sometimes the hills we see around our communities are man-made, like Taber Hill, located …
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Jul 12 2020
July 2020 Ghost towns are; “a once flourishing town wholly or nearly deserted usually as a result of the exhaustion of some natural resource,” as defined by Webster’s Dictionary. The Bruce County community of Egypt, sometimes referred to as Little Egypt, is an oddity in that it was never really an actual “town,” but simply …
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Jul 11 2020
July 2020 Canada has many unique and historically significant buildings. The Sharon Temple, located in the Village of Sharon, in central Ontario, is one such building. The white, timber-frame, clapboard building of ascending chambers, is the centrepiece of an open-air museum, composed of seven other heritage buildings on a 4.5 acre property, and owned by …
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Jun 23 2020
June 2020 A Bailey Bridge is a pre-fabricated truss bridge that was designed by civil engineer Donald Bailey of the British War Office, and developed for use by the British military early in World War II. The wood and steel Bailey Bridge was designed as a portable type of bridge; one that could be easily …
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