Letter to the Editor – Gerry Flaherty of Cornwall Ontario on Waterfront Development – May 21, 2012
Dear Sir, . Any condo or commercial building on the parking lot east of Civic Complex/Aquatic Centre would ruin the view from the former Si Miller arena property, and lessen it’s market value. The City is trying to sell this site today. . The arena site rises up as it rolls northward to First St. E. [...]
Letter to the Editor – James Borer of South Stormont Calls Out Tammy Hart – May 19, 2012
Question to Tammy Hart You recently issued a public letter denouncing bilingualism and the Provincial Liberal and Federal Conservative governments. Is that letter from you as a citizen or as an elected official? For the record. Your vote on bilingualism is a matter of public record within South Stormont. In the same way that you decry [...]
Letter to the Editor – Tammy Hart Breaks with Guy Lauzon Over Bilingual Funding
Continually funding the Francophone Arts and Culture is just another way of pushing the bilingual agenda. I for one am tired of having bilingualism shoved down our throats at a cost of $2.4 billion annually, thanks to the Federal government, $623 million provincially. In my mind keeping jobs and families in the area should be the priority. Numbers in Cornwall and [...]
Letter to the Editor – Why Pay for Medi Drop Boxes When Pharmacies Provide Service for Free?
It has been reported this morning that Medi Drop boxes are being set up so that people can return old or unused medication, including narcotics. . The boxes are being placed at the hospitals and the police stations. . I wonder what this program costs? Mary Anne Pankhurst – South Glengarry Ontario (Comments and opinions [...]
Roger E Roy Responds to Bilingualism Debate Letters to the editor – May 7, 2012
Psychologists tell us that a dark, evil shadow resides in every single human being. Keeping that dark side of our nature under control is what keeps a society civilized, and allows individuals to develope to their full potential in life. Part of that dark side includes things like bigotry and racism, insidious afflictions on human-kind. [...]
Letter To the Editor by Pastor Tom Newton of Cornwall Ontario : A reply to “Quit playing games: Broten”
One must come to see that Premier McGuinty and his henchmen are not playing games. They are playing for keeps! How so? First Premier Dalton McGuinty and his government came up with “Challenging Homophobia and Heterosexism: A K-12 Curriculum. Resource Guide for the Toronto District School Board 2011.” This resource guide for diversity and sexual orientation has been secretly [...]
Letter to the Editor – Eric Little of Ottawa Ontario Not Happy with Expansion of FLSA at Queens Park
We are very fortunate to live in this country and have better lives because of good works and efforts of many, past and present. Often though we the taxpayer do not pay attention the way we should to ensure a similar quality of life for future generations. Yes many of us elect people to various [...]
Letter to the Editor – Earle Macpherson of Cornwall Ontario on Council E Bike Decision
To The Editor . The idiotic statement by some city councilors that e-bikes on the bike trails are not safe in my opinion is stupid and unfounded. Statements have been made by some people in the media, city councilors and also from the general public regarding these vehicles moving along the recreation path with almost no noise at all. [...]
Letter to the Editor – Earle Macpherson of Cornwall Ontario on E- Bikes – April 24, 2012
A copy of my response to Bill Kingston’s Commentary . On the Cornwall Daily. What people have spoken. Whizzing I don’t think so. . Traveling respectively yes . No less a problem than some of the regular bikes who cause their share of incidents. Name me one incident where an e-bike has caused harm or injury to anyone that [...]
Letter to the Editor – Chris Cameron of Cornwall Ontario : Discrimination through political correctness
Friends, My name is Christopher Cameron & I am Registered Nurse employed full-time at The Ottawa Hospital & casual at Cornwall Community Hospital. On two separate occasions I was denied full-time employment at CCH because I did not speak advanced French. In addition, I had over seven years of experience and certification in the specialty. [...]
CORNWALL ONTARIO – LACK OF TRANSPARENCY KNOWN AND RECOGNIZED ACROSS CANADA – LTE Corneliu Kirjan
To be convinced, one must visit the site of the think tank Frontier Centre for Public Policy. One of the issues studied by Frontier Centre concerns local governments and the results are available at www.lgpi.ca (lgpi for local government performance index). The data used to compare the performance of about 250 municipalities across Canada are [...]
Letter to the Editor – Jane Smith of Ottawa on cuts to Community Access Internet & Minister Paradis – April 15, 2012
Industry Minister Christian Paradis has cut the Community Access Program that provided public Internet access sites across Canada. He now has ordered his department to refer Canadians to Service Canada sites. (See link below) http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/cap-pac.nsf/eng/h_00000.html Minister Paradis is embroiled in a Conflict of Interest case involving moving a Service Canada site for political patronage reasons. [...]
Letter to the Editor – PJ Robertson of Morrisburg Ontario on Harper Government – April 14, 2012
Apparently, we have a government of “efficiencies” in Ottawa. Translation: brutal, cowardly, incompetent, and deceitful. Is this news? No. What’s new is the way our government has been excelling itself lately in all departments. Off the top, let’s remember this is the government led by a so-called brilliant economist that inherited a $13-billion surplus and proceeded to put [...]
Letter to the Editor – Pastor Tom Newton on a Casino in Cornwall Ontario – April 14, 2012
The economic search for more and better jobs for Cornwall has hit an all time low: let’s get ourselves a casino! Yes, “People are going to gamble,” says Counselor Grant. And, “Why not keep the dollars here?” – spoken as a true blood leach! Instead of staying with the Judeo/Christian work ethic to get new jobs for Cornwall, [...]
Eric Little of Ottawa Ontario on Ontario NDP Bill 49 to Increase French Language Commissioner Power
For the second year in a row, an Ontario NDP MPP has a bill in the House to increase the powers of the French Language Commissioner. Bill 193 last year did not make it past first reading, Bill 49 this year was introduced March 20 but both are very similar. They want to increase the [...]
Letter to the Editor – Mark A MacDonald OPEN Letter to Cornwall Ontario Mayor & Council on Bringing a Casino to Cornwall
Greetings Mr. Mayor and Council: The Ontario Government has recently been discussing plans to overhaul gambling in the province and at the same time the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Commission have plans to unlock greater funding for health care and education. In a recent interview OLG Chairman Paul Godfrey said OLG would not make a move to build a [...]
Letter to the Editor – RN Debbie Cameron of Cornwall Ontario: AEFO Vote Tainted – April 9, 2012
Mid-March 200 delegates of the AEFO-Association des enseignantes et des enseignantes franco-ontariens(Franco-Ontario Teachers’ Association) voted unanimously in favor of & expressed solidarity with the Francophone groups in Cornwall, over the controversal CCH bilingual hiring policy. . I take great insult to this vote on many levels.Firstly, Mr. Benoit Mercier ,President of the AEFO, mislead the delegates prior to the [...]
Letter to the Editor – Tammie Grant on the Cornwall Ontario Community Hospital Bilingual Nurse Protest – April 8, 2012
First of all, let me thank the local news papers for caring enough to report about what’s going on at the Cornwall Community Hospital. I got involved in the hospital issue not because I work there, not because there is anything in it for me, I got involved because I care for our City of [...]
