December 2024 On 1 December, I attended a pro-Israel rally at the corner of Bathurst And Sheppard in North York, Ontario. This is a largely Jewish area of Toronto, with many carrying rally attendees carrying posters with the faces of the hostages taken by Hamas during their attack. These rallies have been held every Sunday …
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November 2024 Canada’s premier blues band, the Downchild Blues Band, played to a full-house at Hugh’s Room in Toronto on 13 November, just one of the stops on their farewell tour. After releasing 19 albums, receiving numerous awards and touring around the world for the past 55 years, Downchild Blues Band have decided it’s time to …
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November 2024 Burlington Heights is an elevated sand and gravel bar in the southern Ontario City of Hamilton, formed across the eastern end of the Dundas Valley by Glacial Lake Iroquois. Rising around 330 feet above the shoreline, it separates Hamilton Harbour from Cootes Paradise Marsh, and is now recognized as a National Historic Site …
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November 2024 For rural communities, one-room or small multi-room schoolhouses were the standard before communities grew and educational course offerings necessitated bigger schools, holding anywhere from several hundred to one or two thousand students. Before the invention of the automobile, these one-room or small schools were built close to the towns and farms where the …
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November 2024 The trash talking, the body slams, the flying leaps of the turnbuckle. They were all there and more on 2 November at Ferris Lane Community Church in Barrie, Ontario. The family-friendly pro wrestling company had their first event ever back on 1 November 2014, and have been providing a mix of hard-hitting action, …
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November 2024 One of Canada’s newest naval ships was making the rounds of cities in southern Ontario, as part of the annual Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) Great Lakes deployment. HMCS Harry DeWolf, one of the navy’s new Arctic Patrol Vessels, has been on the annual public relations tour, as they did last year. Named after …
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November 2024 Nestled along the shore of Lake Couchiching, sits the stately, 19-room house that served as the summer home of Canadian author and satirist Stephen Leacock. This house represents Stephen Leacock’s love of the small Ontario town of Orillia, immortalized as the mythical Mariposa in his best-seller book “Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town.” …
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November 2024 Many communities have a performance arts centre where stage plays and musical acts entertain patrons. When the City of Albany, New York, decided to build a new performance arts centre in the 1960s, they went with a very unique design. The Egg Center for the Performing Arts was built between 1966 and 1978, …
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October 2024 Within the growing and busy City of Vaughan, north of Toronto, Ontario, is the former unincorporated village of Teston. In the years after what was then known as Vaughan Township was surveyed in 1792, small communities were established at various street corners throughout the 105 square miles of land within its borders. Founded …
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October 2024 Lakeland Kartway has been a fixture of the beach strip area in Hamilton for 66 years, but the seasonal operation may have seen its last summer. The scheduled closure of the popular go-kart track, the oldest one in Canada, came as a shock to residents of the southern Ontario city and its neighbouring …
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