The Canadian Paralympic Committee is proud to announce the location of Canada Paralympic House for the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. The House of Commons meets in the Commons chamber at the west end of the Centre Block of the Parliament Buildings The main doors of the chamber are at the south end — this is where the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod raps when he comes to summon the Commons to the Senate chamber.
My wife and I have recently purchased a Campeau house in Elmvale (on Hamlet Road) and after randomly speaking with an elderly gentleman walking by, we learned that he happened to be an original owner (!) of a house of the same model as ours down the street.
The federal government has cashed in on the historical One Grosvenor Square location in prime downtown London, exchanging legal contracts for the sale of the roughly 130,000-square-foot property to Lodha Group for $530-million, Canada’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom confirmed Thursday.
We have houses that are ugly, houses that are energy hogs, houses that have poor layouts, houses that are a major tax burden, houses that didn’t fit their use, houses that are oriented the wrong way, houses that are disposable, houses that only suit younger people, houses that are always dark inside, and so on.
They have welcomed countless returning veterans into their parlour, offered care and friendship to the Canadian students who work as guides at the nearby Juno Beach Centre museum, and they consistently proclaim Canada’s name to the tourists and sun-seekers who now flock to this stretch of sand, once filled with gunfire and carnage.