Cornwall Ontario – When I wrote my piece about Alyssa Blais and the Agape Centre sending out nasty legal letters to former Agape people from Ottawa Law firm Emond Harnden it was a surprise preamble of an expose I’d been preparing. The fact that this charity had the audacityContinue Reading
CFN – Throne Speeches come and Throne Speeches go, and the 2013 version has done both. When all is said and done, outside of the bubble that is Ottawa, who really cares about them? Worse yet, who even remembers what is in them? Throne Speeches do signal the government’s intentionsContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – This has been a rough political period for legal beagle Bernadette Clement. The city councilor in Cornwall Ontario failed in her run to upset MP Guy Lauzon in the last Federal election actually finishing worse than previous Liberal candidate Denis Sabourin inspite of having a twoContinue Reading
Akwesasne – United Nations Special Rapporteur James Anaya visited Canada this week on a special assignment, conducting hearings across the country to examine the relationship between the government of Canada and First Nations people. Mr. Anaya made Akwesasne his first stop on Oct. 7, hearing presentations from community officials onContinue Reading
CFN – Ah, I remember visiting NDP leader Thomas Mulcair at his offices on Parliament before he became Leader of the Opposition. Those were sunnier days for him. His momentum hadn’t reached its zenith yet and he was about to be a key cog in mounting the most successfulContinue Reading
CFN – What do you do with two years left in your mandate and a new political leader emerging who continues to do well in public opinion polls? What do you do when this opponent has the potential to challenge you in some hard won ridings, possibly putting your majorityContinue Reading
CFN – For generations chocolate lovers in Eastern Canada would venture to Smiths Falls Ontario in an odyssey to indulge their cravings for Chocolate. Hershey thought it better to move its plant from Canada to Mexico; right near a cattle yard, decimating the workforce of the town of about 9,000Continue Reading
CFN – Friends of the Earth Canada has filed a notice of objection to Health Canada’s decision under the Pest Control Products Act to renew conditional registration of a bee-toxic pesticide, clothianidin, despite lack of due diligence by the applicant companies. Health Canada’s agency dealing with pesticides is recommending renewingContinue Reading
Mr. Guy Lauzon Would you be able to explain this to me? . Your Party just gave full support to a Subway Line for Toronto. . Your Party clawed back my CPP by 37% and my EI by almost as much since I draw CPP,there are no Jobs here in Eastern Ontario,Continue Reading
Dear Editor According to Japanese newspapers a “shale gas deal” may well be agreed to in Ottawa Tuesday, September 22th. In it “Canada’s envisioned shale gas exports are likely to total 40 million tons a year.” (1) Anyone reading “Shale gas in Canada”,(2) the Harper Government.s presentation of information onContinue Reading
CFN – For Canadian Filmmaker John Greyson and Dr. Tarek Loubani these are trying times. Both are on hunger strikes in an Egyptian prison after being held for over 30 days without charges. There’s even a website for them tarekandjohn.com Greyson at least is openly gay which in most MuslimContinue Reading
Yawn, I see the NDP held a virtual Question Period on Twitter in an attempt to hold the Harper government to account. That effort was even less interesting than watching them try to do that live in the House of Commons. Fortunately for the NDP, I doubt that other thanContinue Reading
CFN – Randy Hillier’s fall as PC Labour Critic this week has highlighted the problem with Partisan politics. As some viewers of CFN may be aware I myself have elected to become Hyper Non Partisan. No more party allegiances or memberships. In my political life I have beenContinue Reading
CFN – With talks about the expansion of the Cornwall Regional Airport failing again maybe it’s time to start to consider some new ideas and think outside of the box? The airport, located in South Glengarry clearly does not serve the goals and economic development needs of the City ofContinue Reading
CFN – It seems that a large core of Quebecers are determined to bring language issues to the forefront in Quebec. CTV in Montreal reported on a new documentary about the issue. LA LANGUE À TERRE, directed by Jean-Pierre Roy and Michel Breton essentially floats that Quebec should onlyContinue Reading
CFN – Was anyone surprised when Prime Minister Harper announced that he would prorogue Parliament this fall? I somehow doubt it as everyone from media types to pundits to political staff were waiting for his announcement. When it finally did come, it lacked key details such as when exactly wouldContinue Reading
CFN – Please be forewarned to read and think before reacting to this piece. It’s not defending the author of the letter above nor is it in any way condoning some of the horrible sentiments in the letter above that has gone viral. Obviously a distraught, frustrated, bat shitContinue Reading
Each day that passes we are one day closer to the end of the Harper government and for me that is enough motivation to work hard on behalf of the Liberal Party of Canada and Justin Trudeau. Mr. Harper’s comments that Liberals have “dangerous ideas” and their proposals areContinue Reading