Be kind during a blizzard
      I wanted to write to The Scope to inform the community about a recent experience of mine. On Nov. 26, I travelled from Toronto to Innisfil Beach Road on the Barrie GO Transit bus. As I do not drive, and because it was dark by then, I needed to call a taxi to get the rest of the way home to Alcon...
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MP becoming a Queen's Park bully
      Our own York-Simcoe MP Peter Van Loan is busy exposing himself as the top bully in the nasty school yard that passes for federal politics under Stephen Harper and his band of old Reformers. He calls our newly elected premier McGuinty "the small man of confederation", because he stands up for us i...
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Light Up Night hailed a success
      The Cookstown and District Chamber of Commerce held their annual Light Up Night on Nov. 9. Although the night was rainy, many people turned up to share in our welcoming of the Christmas season. Santa Claus had over 200 visits from children and will be visiting Cookstown again during the Santa C...
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