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  <title>‘Perhaps the greatest Canadian of his time’: How ‘Doctor O’ captivated the country</title>
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  <description>Oronhyatekha was a scholar, physician, and Mohawk chief. </description>
  <content:encoded><![CDATA[Walk through Toronto’s Cabbagetown neighbourhood and you might stumble upon Doctor O Lane running parallel to Carlton Street. The “O” stands for Oronhyatekha, a Mohawk whose colourful life as a public figure in the late 19th century was unusual for an Indigenous person of that age, taking him from...]]></content:encoded>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:32:35 EST</pubDate>
  <dc:creator>Jamie Bradburn</dc:creator>
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  <title>‘It’s like a cult’: The obsessive world of Ontario’s licence plate collectors   </title>
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  <description>Enthusiasts are keeping the province’s surprising licence-plate history alive.</description>
  <content:encoded><![CDATA[From the sidewalk, Krystian Kozinski’s two-car garage looks like any other on his cul-de-sac. But step inside and you’ll quickly see, plastering nearly every inch of the walls and ceiling, his overwhelming collection of licence plates — thousands of them, mostly from Canada, and the majority of...]]></content:encoded>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:56:40 EST</pubDate>
  <dc:creator>Ethan Jakob Craft</dc:creator>
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  <title>How Ontario learned to love a public power utility </title>
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  <description>120 years ago, the province created what would become Ontario Hydro — ending  years of heated debate.</description>
  <content:encoded><![CDATA[Prior to introducing the legislation that created the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario in May 1906, Adam Beck invited the provincial press gallery into his office. “There he told them that he had dreamed a dream,” his biographer W.R. Plewman recounted. “He spent an hour visualizing a...]]></content:encoded>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 12:07:40 EST</pubDate>
  <dc:creator>Jamie Bradburn</dc:creator>
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