To the Editor, re Threats to Old Age Security The Harper government is crying poor on pensions for seniors while it lavishes 13 billion in tax cuts for big corporations that don’t need the money. What’s wrong with this picture? They can’t afford to staff the EI phone lines so workers can access benefits for [...]
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Letter to the Editor – Ashly Desaulniers of Cornwall Ontario Wants the People of Cornwall to Take Back the City from Its Government
I understand for the most part that people don’t want to hear negative things. It’s really understandable, but standing behind the secret destruction that is going on in this city, is just shameful. . What got me thinking wasn’t that people are upset that any of this secret destruction is out in the open and [...]
Letter to the Editor – Mark A MacDonald on Waterfront Development – January 24, 2012
Dear Editor: There are long waiting lists for our seniors who need affordable housing. There are long waiting lists for our elderly who need long term care. There are long waiting lists for people in wheel chairs that need a place to live. With all due respect, these are the people that should be “consulted” when considering [...]
Letter to the Editor – Joe Hueglin of Niagara Falls Ontario on Pipeline Debate & Mr. Harper – January 20, 2012
Dear Editor, Prime Minister Harper’s analogy is of Canada not being a ” ‘giant national’ park for the U.S.” and that the “Pipeline debate should be left to Canadians” More valid is this: Canada is a giant resource base. He would have American environmentalists excluded from pipeline debate. For consistency so too ought all foreign [...]
Letter to the Editor – Kevin Glover of Cornwall Ontario Personal Journey on Lack of Mental Health Care – January 18, 2012
Henry Miller is famously quoted as saying: “the tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we’re passing one another without a look of recognition.” It’s common knowledge that One in five people in Canada experience mental health problems in their life time [...]
Letter to the Editor – Tom Manley of Berwick Ontario – “The Liberal Party is alive and well.” January 16, 2012
Liberal Party is alive and well. I just returned from the biennial convention of the Liberal Party of Canada. To friends and foes, I share this eye-witness account: the Liberal Party of Canada is alive and well. Recent speculation that the Liberal Party is dead or irrelevant is premature and plainly wrong. The Liberal Party [...]
Letter to the Editor – Eric Little of Ottawa Ontario On Habs Coach Linguistic Protest – Jan 16, 2012
CFN – We apologize for being late in publishing this letter to the Editor. Dear Taxpayer Over the weekend Montreal area residents were upset and protested in the streets over a unilingual hockey coach, the media and fans have been at this constantly since mid December. We have Canada’s Language Commissioner sending out secret shoppers [...]
Letter to the Editor from Janet Annesley VP of Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers – Jan 9, 2012
TO: Cornwall Free News RE: Ezra Levant – Friend of China, but Foe to Canadians December 31, 2011 Editor: Contrary to the innuendo in this article, no business connection exists between the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers and Ezra Levant. Nor does CAPP provide funding to the growing ethical oil movement based on Mr. Levant’s book and [...]
Letter to the Editor – Joe Hueglin of Niagara Falls Ontario On Harper Government Being a Powder Monkey – January 6, 2012
Dear Editor, Stephen Harper is preparing Canadians to support a war against Iran by saying for the second time it is “the most serious threat to peace and security in the world”, Iran has no nuclear weapons as does North Korea, China and Russia nor has it made war on other countries. Rather than this [...]
Letter to the Editor – Lee C. Estabrook of Minden Louisiana on KEYSTONE XL Pipeline and Canadian Resources – January 2, 2012
I live in Louisiana, an oil & NG producing state. I can understand your opposition to building a pipeline to serve the Chinese market and sending a Chinese Production Company (Sinopec) oil at their cost of production. As an resident of “the States” I would much rather see the pipeline from Canada to our Gulf [...]
Letter to the Editor – Joe Hueglin of Niagara Falls Ontario on Egypt, Syria, and Iran – December 28, 2011
Dear Editor, In a year end interview with Prime Minister Harper this was reported regarding Syria “He doesn’t foresee a military intervention in the near future because there is not as there was with Libya a United Nations resolution authorizing such action.” Strangely though Egypt and Syria were included in the interview article, [...]
Open Letter to Stephen Harper from Eduard Hiebert of St. Francois Xavier Manitoba December 23, 2011
Dear PM Stephen Harper: Today, the very day after September 11, like exactly 10 years ago, with a deep and abiding concern for the future, I sent the letter below then, as today, to the PM of Canada! While the letter is an historical fact, it is also very relevant today as I extend my [...]
Dear Mayor Kilger – Response to Cornwall Ontario Mayor’s LTE – December 22, 2011
With all due respect your worship there seems to be a kaleidoscope of confusion regarding the city of Cornwall under your current mandate? The Diane Shaye case, along with a few other cases including suggestions of heavy handed media targeted at council and the CAO. Tax payers and Ms Shaye and her sister perchance might not [...]
Letter to the Editor – Mayor of Cornwall Ontario Bob Kilger on City’s Advertising Policy – December 22, 2011
Dear Editor, I’d like to take this opportunity to clarify City Council’s recent decision regarding the establishment of an advertising policy. There have been some misguided suggestions that this is an attempt to censor public discussion. This is simply not the case. The City of Cornwall enjoys a positive working relationship with the media, [...]
Letter to the Editor – Larry Kazdan of Vancouver BC Not Happy with Harper Loopholes – December 22, 2011
Dear Editor, The citizens’ organization Democracy Watch has noted that in Canada it is still effectively legal for a person like Karlheinz Schreiber to fundraise for and make secret donations to nomination race and party leadership candidates, to lobby and make secret deals with Cabinet ministers and government employees, and for everyone involved to be [...]
Letter to the Editor – Joe Hugelin of Niagara Falls Ontario on the Harperite Phone Games Against MP Irwin Cotler – December 16, 2011
Hiring telephoners to say ‘There are rumours that there might be a byelection,’ (1) when there were none is untruthful. Equally so is speechifying to wheat farmers that ” his party “respects the vote” of farmers who back the single desk and suggested there won’t be any attempt to impose dual marketing on the Canadian [...]
Letter to the Editor – Corneliu Kirjan of Cornwall Ontario Not Happy with Harper Government’s Messaging – December 16, 2011
Since the May 2nd election, the government has never stopped lying to the population and manipulating Canadian public opinion. With an army of more than 1500 «communicators» spread out into all the departments and about 100 others in the PM’s Office, the government has flooded the media and citizens’ mailboxes with messages aiming to create [...]
Judy Rose of Cornwall Ontario Not Happy With Dangerous Drivers in Cornwall Ontario – December 15, 2011
I would like to draw your attention to the inconsiderate behaviors of the drivers of this city. You all know who you are. Why are the rules of the road not being obeyed ? And, where are the police when this is happening? When approaching a crosswalk when someone is waiting to cross the street, [...]
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