Cornwall ON – We have a double dose of Keith Beardsley’s View From the Hill for you today! Iggy Express dropping into communities all across Canada This summer will see the Iggy Express dropping into communities all across Canada. If we believe the Liberal spin this will be the mostContinue Reading
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 fiveContinue Reading
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 evenContinue Reading
Cornwall ON – Get W.E.T. with the water efficiency team from the Raisin Region Conservation Authority this summer. The goal of this team is to provide tools and information to make “homeowners in our community aware of water conservation and general environmental stewardship”. Call the Water Efficiency Team at 1-866-3611Continue Reading
Cornwall ON – There’s a trend in politics of passing the buck, especially in some potentially dynamic issues. Don’t want to ask for a raise? Form a committee to come up with a solution. Don’t want to tackle a tough issue? Form a committee. Well people in CornwallContinue Reading
Cornwall ON – Let me get this right. The National Congress of Chinese Canadians (NCCC) wants a meeting with CSIS head Richard Fadden to seek an apology for comments he didn’t make. They feel he cast a cloud over the Chinese Canadian community and they want to discuss possible “correctiveContinue Reading
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 limitContinue Reading
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.Continue Reading
Cornwall ON – We’re happy to present a double shot of View From the Hill by our Political Maven, Keith Beardsley! And now the whining begins It’s always interesting to see how people view the world and their place in it. Good examples of this are the complaints of our recentContinue Reading
Cornwall ON – We are now in the third month of the hemorrhaging of our ocean floor since the initial explosion of The Deepwater Horizon oil rig, April 20, 2010. Why are we facing the results of such an event? In addition to the people and businesses involved not beingContinue Reading
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 theContinue Reading
Cornwall ON – I love Canada. I love being Canadian. Yesterday was an historic day in our country. I know many of you have seen titillating images of a burning police car or two, and some broken windows, but standing in the midst of the 20,000 + people attendingContinue Reading
Cornwall ON – As summer returns to Canada, Liberal MPs have scrambled for the exits and fled our capital city. No doubt they will be doing a lot of navel gazing this summer and probably a lot of plotting too. Liberals will have a chance to review their very dismalContinue Reading
North Americans use over three million miles of it annually…what is it?? Cornwall ON – Dental floss! According to information read in an online Plastics and Resins report, North Americans use over 3 million miles of dental floss annually. Dental floss is made principally from nylon; a synthetic product thatContinue Reading
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 theContinue Reading
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 bridgeContinue Reading
Cornwall ON – We’re starting a RANT section to the Burning Yaks category here on The Cornwall Free News. If there’s something you want to RANT about email us at info@cornwallfreenews.com or call us on our hotline 613.361.1755 There are so many big things in the world to RANT about,Continue Reading
Cornwall ON – The last week has seen a few changes deep within the Prime Minister’s Office. I will begin by saying that staff changes at this time of the year are not unusual as the House has recessed for the summer. Nor is PMO immune from this happening asContinue Reading