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South Stormont ON – Deputy Mayor Tammy A Hart of South Stormont Ontario sent us a letter to the editor regarding the song “Money for Nothing” by Mark Knopfler and his band Dire Straits. The song is being banned of late for the term “Faggot” which I believe was hisContinue Reading

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Since my first Letter to the Editor, many people of Cornwall have contacted me,wanting to know more  about fluoridation.  Across Canada and the U.S. many cities are starting to say no to fluoride. Waterloo, Ontario voted it out on October 29, 2010. Calgary, Alberta is working on voting it out thisContinue Reading

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In 2007, Dalton Mcguinty ripped up a previously-prepared plan on rebuilding hydro that would have cost $60 billion and after experimenting with energy policy over the last three years the Liberals now say their plan will cost $87 billion. The people of Ontario  know the real cost may be billions higher as nothing ever comes in on budget and Mcguinty can’tContinue Reading

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Dear Sir: Please may I correct an error in the Standard Freeholder 23rd December, “Akwesasne oppose de-listng river” by Greg Peerenboom.  It was erroneously reported that “The institute has been responsible for much of the research which has led to improving the river”.  Whilst it may be true the instituteContinue Reading

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Dear Sir: Mayor Bob Kilger and his merry band of councillors have given the city taxpayers an early Christmas gift, more taxes for the future! The mayor has decided to try and extend the life of the city garbage dump by twenty years but, seemingly, the council as a whole does not haveContinue Reading

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Dear Mr. Harper: My wife and I are writing to express our dismay with the actions of our federal government in directing the Senate to vote down Bill C-216. This Bill would have provided many Canadians with a financial security blanket in their greatest hour of need. That our FederalContinue Reading

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Cornwall ON – I would like to take this time to commend Cornwall Fire Services and the many firefighters that were called to fight the fire at Truffles Burger Bar early Sunday morning. . Although it was devastating to learn of the loss of this new restaurant in Downtown Cornwall,Continue Reading

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Some of you may be asking why. The citizens of Waterloo started researching and investigating almost 3 years ago what fluoride was. . They found that there are over 2,000 health officials who are calling for an end to fluoridation worldwide and that list is growing. . The Fluoride Action NetworkContinue Reading

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I have recently heard a rumour that Bev Oda, Guy Lauzon and Stephen Harper have agreed to fund all future donations to Haiti out of their own pockets!  I wonder if this is true because I am not too happy to see Canadian hard earned dollars being constantly diverted to Haiti when there areContinue Reading

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Re:       Canadian Taxpayer Subsidised Tea Party Successes Canadian Taxpayer Subsidised Tea Party Successes By Richard Komorowski Cornwall Free News November 16, 2010 Editor: Reading Mr. Komorowski’s article reminded me of another anti-corporate conspiracy rant,the Unabomber Manifesto by Ted Kaczynski. Not only is he ill-informed on oil sands production methods, he’s clearly guessingContinue Reading

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Dear Sir: Michael Ignatieff may not want an election, the Liberals may not be ready for an election but, like the Americans, we are in need of  a change in political parties at the federal level.  The Americans, without giving Barack Obama a reasonable time frame in which to correct that which George W. createdContinue Reading

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South Stormont ON – I have become inutterably tired of the complaints about taxes at the provincial level of government.  So few of the complainants appear worried about the massive tax waste occurring at the federal level yet taxes are taxes no matter who levies them.  More importantly we haveContinue Reading

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In a cowardly attempt to rewrite history, Neo-Nazis recently hacked into the website for the Buchenwald Memorial, defacing the “Book of the Dead” page. . Their objective was to erase the memory of the 56,000 people who died in the Buchenwald Concentration Camp during World War II; the Book ofContinue Reading

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Cornwall ON – Hundreds of thousands of Ontarians made it clear that they can not afford the unfair imposition of HST on their hydro bills, including many working families right here in Cornwall Ontario and in the riding of Stormont, Dundas, and South Glengarry. I hoped that Jim Brownell andContinue Reading

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Our First Nations People Deserve Better We need to treat our First Nations citizens better.  I have been reading the Standard Freeholder for quite some time and I am appalled with how many derogatory comments are made by online readers about First Nations people living in or near Cornwall. ManyContinue Reading