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Ottawa ON – The government has given notice that it will introduce legislation that allows for an extra two advanced polling days during an election. Obviously they hope that more of us will vote. Giving Canadians two extra days to vote is all well and good, but that assumes CanadiansContinue Reading

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Cornwall ON – The Cornwall Free News & Seawayradio.com are proud to announce a new Political Column written by Mr. Keith Beardsley. Welcome to “View from the Hill”. In the days ahead, this column will look at what is happening in Ottawa and discuss why everyday Canadians should be payingContinue Reading

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I’m sure there is going to be a public outcry against McGuinty’s new sex education curriculum, but I would like to present another perspective. After my last letter, “Confronting Homophobia in our Schools, I can just imagine the feedback on this one! According tocbc.ca, grade 6 students will learn aboutContinue Reading

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ROGER SAUVÉ – Life Trends – Facts And Figures That Matter to You – Life is changing for both men and women Bob Dylan released “The Times They are a-Changin” in 1964. He was right at the time. Some four decades later, the change continues. My new report, Canadian Gender Realities 2010,Continue Reading

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What to do in Cornwall as Earth Day celebrates 40 years? Cornwall ON – April 22nd 2010 marks the 40th Anniversary of our celebration of Earth Day.  Looking at the www.earthday.org site it asks us to ‘join the more than one billion people in 190 countries that are taking actionContinue Reading

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Cornwall ON – The Real War on drugs takes place each and every day. It’s not cocaine; it’s not Mary Jane as one of our radio guests call it. It’s pharmaceuticals and the pressures from big drug companies on Medicare. Recently Ontario slashed the prices pharmacies are allowed to chargeContinue Reading

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HST will make life less affordable for Cornwall families Toronto ON – Cornwall residents shouldn’t be fooled by the cheery talk Revenue Minister John Wilkinson used when he was in Cornwall on Thursday (April 15) to portray his government’s Harmonized Sales Tax (HST). The HST is a bad deal for OntarioContinue Reading

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Dear Sir: Today I received, in my mailbox, yet another Guy Lauzon scam newsletter.  This latest scam is entitled “Getting Things Done For SDSG”. It is an 11 inches by 16 inches printed paper containing four pages of gobble-de-gook and of course the mandatory photograph of our less than competent member ofContinue Reading

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What is that slow moving creature on the road? Summerstown ON – That slow moving shelled creature is probably one of the 8 out of 9 species of turtles in Ontario which are on the species at risk of extinction list. Yes Folks….please reread this sentence again.  This is due toContinue Reading

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Cornwall ON– So it’s time.   Some of you may recall I talked about some life and fitness goals for 2010 for myself. It’s wasn’t about dieting, but about living better.     There are many different ways to approach this, but after consulting and discussing this with a lotContinue Reading

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Are Biodegradable and Compostable good choices? Three different plastic bags came across my desk in the past week.  One was the plastic packaging on daffodils from the Canadian Cancer Society, labeled 100% degradable, one was a plain plastic bag labeled oxo-biodegradable from a natural soap artisan in Quebec and theContinue Reading

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Regarding the Old Age Security pension that Child Killer Clifford Olson is receiving he should be made to pay it all back.All future payments should be Terminated.The cost to keep this monster incarcerated is more than the allowable amount for law abiding pensioners to collect.   It costs Corrections Canada $110,223 to keep a male inmateContinue Reading

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Dear Sir: Expressions of concern about our hospital cuts must be heeded; doctors who have privileges at the hospital, and other professionals, have all joined in to demonstrate how they feel.  The professional concerns are also shared by many in the public who have had deep involvement in the hospital, which after all is now ourContinue Reading