South Stormont ON – Education and learning is what provides light in a world of ignorant darkness. I have had many opportunities to witness first hand just how dangerous it is when people, societies and cultures are ignorant of simple facts and lack common decency in seeing each other as human beings. So when ignorant [...]
Cornwall ON – Not withstanding what appears to be the good intentions on part of the Tories to protect the `innocent’, the current government’s scrapping of the mandatory aspect of the long form census is less than thoughtful or reasoned. Any one with common sense, or at least asked the folks at Stats Canada, would [...]
Newington ON – If you think Health Care in Ontario is bad, just wait till September when you see how badly Dalton McGuinty has screwed up our Educational System. $1.5 billion per year is being spent on three and four year olds to attend full day/every day kindergarten. Teachers making $70,000 plus, ECE’s (Early Childhood Educators) making $47,000 plus and EA’s (Educational Assistants) [...]
Dear Editor: The McGuinty Government’s handling of the eco fees issue has been a complete fiasco. There was no plan to protect consumers from being blindsided by these new eco fees on July 1 at the same time as the introduction of the HST. The Ontario NDP support the concept of producer responsibility for the recycling [...]
Cornwall ON – The Honourable Attorney General Chris Bentley stated that “no one is going to be left hanging.” in reference to victims of historical sexual abuse in Cornwall. Well Chris, you’ve left almost 200 people hanging for over 7 months. Remember when you cancelled recommended counselling services and tried to replace them with a [...]
Cornwall ON – I wish the anti Oil sands bloggers and most of the media,radio,t.v. and newspapers would please get it right.I am sick of hearing the term tar sands by people who should know better. “The hydrocarbon mixtures found in northern Alberta have historically been referred to as tar, pitch or asphalt. However, ‘oil [...]
Newington ON – Premier Dalton McGuinty created a lucrative program called “microFIT” for small producers of solar electricity across Ontario. A producer would be able to benefit by selling the electricity on the grid for a subsidized price of 80.2 cents per kilowatt hour. That’s 20 times the price paid for nuclear power. Most of the 16,000 applicants were [...]
Letter to the editor, Kudos goes out to Prime Minister Stephen Harper for choosing our new Governor General, David Johnston. David Johnston has a distinguished academic record; he is a legal scholar and was president of the University of Waterloo. He is 69 years old, married to a doctor and has five daughters all in university. His greatest [...]
Mr. Bentley: We have written numerous letters to your office in the last seven months, some as private letters, but mostly as letters composed by our committee. They have gone unheeded and we continue to get back as a resource a Transition Services List that includes few agencies that even come close to dealing with [...]
Regarding the recent announcement of the new “Police Motorcycle”, really begs the question, why are we not sharing this service with the OPP? Recently, our city police force gave up on our “police dog” program, opting for sharing the service with the OPP. Our taxpayers are being stretched to the limit and it’s time we consider [...]
To the Guardians of Cornwall, I was disappointed, as I know most of you were also, in the decision to award the Pharmacy contract to a firm outside of Cornwall. But I believe you made an error in not accepting to defer the vote as put forth by Councilor Grant. It seems that the point [...]
Dear Sir: I sent the following letter to the Standard Freeholder but, of course, they did not print it. It seems to me the worst critics of politicians are often those who have never stood for public office themselves. Claude McIntosh, of the Standard Freeholder, often refers to our Premier as the Hon. D. McFibber to which [...]
G20 and the New World Order – Letter to the Editor by Dwight Dugas Cornwall ON – There is a lot of talk about the protestors who are expected to show up in Toronto to demonstrate during the G20 meetings this month. The mainstream media keeps reminding us of the tremendous cost to keep the [...]
Cornwall ON – It is most unfortunate that Cornwall was not chosen as the venue for the G8/G20 summits. The area could surely have profited from the millions of dollars the federal government has poured into the current location for the meetings. We could have had: - a new international bridge and talks between ministers and [...]
Dear Editor: I am surprised that after the controversy earlier this year over how the members of Cornwall city council were misusing their personal expense accounts on donations to local charities and community organizations , fundraising golf tournaments, concerts, dinners, dances, galas, and on political party fundraisers, Mayor Bob Kilger has continued to have the [...]
Newington ON – My daughter phoned very upset. She works at Nav Canada in the tuck shop and was in a hurry to leave her shift to go home to her three little girls, she only makes minimum wage. She was quickly trying to explain to the worker while changing shifts what to do and what [...]
To the Editor/Letters to the Editor, Every Canadian citizen should be doing something to stop the outrage that the Conservative Government is trying to pull over the people of this country! A Billion Dollars or more to host a couple of meetings is INSANE! Yes, Canada should host them once in a while and yes, [...]
A Stronger Canada Pension Plan For your entire career you work hard and build a good life for your family. Every Pay cheque, your deductions include a small amount that is tucked away in your public pension plan. When retirement comes, you expect to be able to live in dignity with some measure of financial security. Yet this [...]
