Municipal Theater Company of Cornwall City Council – Procedural By Law REDUX by Corneliu Kirjan – April 22, 2012
CFN – On Monday, April 16, I decided to get more involved in the city’s municipal life and attended the special meeting of the council, which was to decide how it would replace the departing Councillor Leslie O’Shaughnessy. We all remember that right after the announcement of his resignation, the Council announced that a “ghost” [...]
Cornwall Ontario City Councilor Glen Grant: If you can’t make your point in less than three minutes… April 20, 2012
CFN- Cornwall Ontario City Councilor had a moment to chat with the media Thursday night and one of the topics was the amount of time that some politicians speak. The long time city councilor, and active Federal and Provincial Conservative was animated as the topic was discussed. If you can’t make your point at the [...]
OP ED – Casino in Cornwall?- A Bad Idea by Kevin Parkinson – April 19, 2012
We see that a few people in Cornwall are floating a trial balloon- one that says we should lobby for a casino in Cornwall. I think it’s a bad idea and a non-starter and here’s why. Do the research on gambling and casinos and you will find discover that it’s all downhill. Casinos have some [...]
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 [...]
Young Liberals of SD&SG Event – Saturday April 14th, 2012 – Knights of Columbus Hall – Cornwall Ontario
From left to right is Me, Allison St.Jean, President of the Stormont Dundas South Glengarry Young Liberals, Del Jones President of the SDSG Federal Riding Association, and David Jones Vice President of Federal Affairs for the SDSG Young Liberals. CFN – Over the last year, the Liberal Party of Canada has been inspired by a [...]
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 – 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 [...]
Will Gerry Samson Get Leslie O’Shaughnessy’s City Council Seat in Cornwall Ontario? April 4, 2012
CFN – Finishing 11th in a 10 horse race is never fun; but for Gerry Samson it might be his ticket onto council after Leslie O’Shaughnessy announced his intention to resign from Cornwall Ontario City Council as of April 10th. Gerry on the campaign trail I reached Mr. Samson in Florida where the retired Police [...]
