Jul 01 2026
July 2026 The summer of 2026 will be another busy year for Marisa Scheinfeld, a Brooklyn, NY-born photographer and author who is heading up a project to honour and memorialize what was once known as America’s Jewish Vacationland, colloquially known as the Borscht Belt. An enthusiastic crowd gathered in a parkette, locally referred to as …
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Jun 26 2026
Thousands of police officers marched along Dixon Road to the Toronto Congress Centre in Etobicoke in remembrance of Constable Marc Pinizzotto, an 18-year veteran of the Toronto Police Service, was fatally shot 11 June while executing a search warrant. Another week, another police funeral. It’s been a rough couple of months for the policing family …
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Jun 24 2026
June 2026 Generations of families have always enjoyed getting away from the crowded cities and having a leisurely vacation in a relaxed, peaceful and serene environment, perhaps on a lake, with the sound of rustling leaves from tall, mature trees. Numerous hotels once lined the shoreline of Lake Rosseau in the Muskoka Region of southern …
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Jun 18 2026
June 2026 Like many cities across North America, the small, single-screen independent movie theatres have been disappearing over the decades in favour of corporate-owned multiplex theatres, with double-digit screens and stadium seating. The few remaining independents survive as second-run theatres, or art-house theatres. Now known as the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema, the small theatre …
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Jun 11 2026
June 2026 On 7 June, the third annual Ontario Police Suicide Memorial service was held on the grounds of the Ontario Legislature at Queen’s Park in Toronto. Unlike the existing police memorial, which pays tribute to police officers killed in the line of duty, the Ontario Police Suicide Memorial pays tribute to those who died …
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Jun 09 2026
June 2026 It was a great Saturday afternoon and night on the Barrie waterfront on 6 June, as the 2026 edition of the Troubadour Festival kicked off with its line-up for June. Headlining the day-long festival, where it was country music day, were The Road Hammers, Canada’s hardest driving country music band, led by Barrie-born …
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Jun 04 2026
June 2026 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. Cooper’s Falls is one of the many former villages in the Muskoka Region of southern Ontario that faded away after the logging industry declined. Along a …
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May 30 2026
May 2026 Like many provincial highways across Ontario, Highway 11 was once dotted with roadside motels that catered to weary travellers. The highway originally stretched from Lake Ontario in Toronto to the Minnesota-Ontario border at Rainy River in northern Ontario, but the section south of Barrie has been downgraded to a municipal highway. The Comfort …
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May 22 2026
May 2026 Generations of families have always enjoyed getting away from the crowded cities and having a leisurely vacation in a relaxed, peaceful and serene environment, perhaps on a lake, with the sound of rustling leaves from tall, mature trees. For generations of Ontarians, the lure of the Muskoka, Algonquin and Haliburton Districts have been …
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Apr 29 2026
April 2026 The Rock ‘n Roll Machine clearly still has a lot of gas in the tank. Canadian power-trio Triumph have embarked on their 50th anniversary tour, with a stop at Toronto’s Scotiabank Centre. This tour is the first time the original trio has toured since 1988, when singer-guitarist Rik Emmett left the band to …
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