February 2020 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a promise during last year’s election to ban “assault rifles” if re-elected and with the new session of Parliament this year, he has made it clear that he will follow through with this ban. Well Prime Minister, how do you plan to enforce this ban, a ban that …
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February 2020 You Might Be a Small-Town Cop If… 1. You ever got a call from the Mayor asking why you stopped his cousin, brother, or nephew. 2. Billy Bob shows up at the station because he heard you were looking for him. 3. Your backup had to be called at home, then had to go down …
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February 2020 Toronto Sun reporter/web editor Bryan Passifiume makes a good argument in a recent column that it may be “Time to re-examine (the) role of railway police” (Toronto Sun/Postmedia, 29 January), over accountability concerns relating to the investigation of a fatal train derailment. However, calling for their elimination shouldn’t be the only option. Railway …
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February 2020 Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault in an interview on CTV’s Question Period on Sunday that the government will consider the 97 guidelines set out by the expert panel, requiring all companies that deliver “audio, audiovisual, and alphanumeric news content” to Canadians be regulated by the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) or another body, …
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January 2020 Major-General F.F. Worthington Memorial Park, also referred to as the “Tank Park”, serves multiple functions at Camp Borden, a military training base north of Toronto. As a part of the Base Borden Military Museum complex, it serves as an armoured vehicle museum, with armoured vehicles and artillery pieces from Canada, United States, England …
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January 2020 During World War II, supply lines from North America to the United Kingdom and Europe were vital to the ultimate victory for the Allies. To accomplish this task, Canada formed the Canadian Merchant Navy, as did other Commonwealth countries. Civilian cargo ships were pressed into service to transport supplies for the war effort, …
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January 2020 The Town of Port Burwell in southern Ontario has a unique military museum featuring a Cold War relic as the centrepiece. HMCS Ojibwa was an Oberon-class submarine that served in the Royal Canadian Navy from 1965 until it was decommissioned in 1998. Powered by a two shaft diesel-electric system, equipped with two ASR …
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January 2020 OK, so our selfie-king prime minister decided to visit a Winnipeg-area doughnut shop, Oh Doughnuts, to pick up six boxes of $47 per dozen doughnuts for his colleagues attending the cabinet meetings in the city. Many are criticizing Prime Minister Sprinkles for not buying doughnuts at Tim Hortons, or for the fact that …
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January 2020 On 23 April 2010, a memorial plaque was unveiled outside the Greater Binghamton Transportation Center bus terminal in Binghamton, New York, in honour of a mostly forgotten civil rights and mental health advocate who was murdered on that day 47 years prior. William Lewis Moore, born in Binghamton on 28 April 1927, was …
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January 2020 In the south-east corner of the Parkwood Institute Mental Health Care property in London, Ontario, sits a cluster of four buildings; three that are still in use and one boarded up and deteriorating, along with a small, dilapidated guard shack. This is the remains of the Western Counties Health and Occupational Centre. Formerly …
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