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Cornwall ON – Maybe it’s the timing?   CBC is doing a special on the G 20 and what happened to hundreds of Canadians last year at the hand of Police at the G20. That event changed my perspective about media and working in the media.   You see IContinue Reading

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Ottawa ON – The latest round of political opinion polls has a message for the opposition parties-focus on what matters to Canadians. While the so called Bev Oda scandal allows opposition politicians to hyperventilate with outrage in Ottawa and the media and political pundits are beside themselves over how notContinue Reading

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Ottawa ON – The $13 billion budgetary surplus the Conservatives inherited when they took office in 2006 is gone.  It has been replaced with a $56 billion deficit, the largest deficit in our history, and the Parliamentary Budget Officer is projecting that the government will add more than $200 billion in new debt byContinue Reading

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Cornwall ON – Cornwall Regional Task Force (CRTF) along with the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) have seized approx 1800 pounds of frozen poultry product which was smuggled into Canada from the USA.  The investigation, which included the execution of a search warrant at a local Cornwall residence, is ongoingContinue Reading

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Ottawa ON – It was almost obscene watching 116 Tory MPs and cabinet minister’s blitzing the country this past week bragging about how much of our taxpayer’s money they have spent. On one day alone some 70 MPs announced roughly a quarter of a billion dollars worth of spending. And,Continue Reading

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Cornwall ON – The Stormont-Dundas-South Glengarry Federal NDP riding association nominated community activist Mario Leclerc as their candidate for the next federal election at their nomination meeting on Feb. 23 at the Navy Veterans Club in Cornwall. Leclerc, a resident of Cornwall, is employed by Service Canada in Cornwall asContinue Reading

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Dear Editor, The “Alerte-Info-Alert-bot memo about the situation involving International Development Minister Bev Oda, who stands accused by her political opponents of the serious charge of lying to Parliament” *.placed in the hands of Conservative M.P’s included the statement, “We stand by Minister Oda and her decision not to provideContinue Reading

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Ottawa ON – In defence of beleaguered Minister of International Cooperation, Bev Oda, Prime Minster Stephen Harper told Parliament that the Canadian International Development Agency should give money only to “the poorest and the most vulnerable.” This is NOT what CIDA is doing. According to CIDA, tax payer dollars areContinue Reading

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Cornwall ON – Join us for The Political Round Table with your host Jamie Gilcig. Pundits Denis Sabourin and Joe Gunn talk about some of the hot button topics of the day. Today’s guest starting at 9:05 AM is Mr. Pat Finucan who is seeking to be the Liberal candidateContinue Reading

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Cornwall ON – Hi Ottawa viewers of The Cornwall Free News.  I get questioned all the time about The Cornwall Free News and why Ottawa is our number one market? It usually comes down to content and people from all over the world read us, but it’s nice to seeContinue Reading

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Dear Sir: So, we have yet another episode in the Harper Government Play Centre.  Now we have a member of the cabinet telling blatant lies and a Prime Minister who upholds her right to tell those lies.  It is very, very difficult to rationalise the Conservative Party pulling ahead inContinue Reading

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Ottawa ON – The Bev Oda saga drags on made all the worse by the Prime Minister’s stubbornness to keep her in place. Unfortunately in the process a minister’s reputation will be destroyed and the government’s reputation tarnished. The one saving grace for the Conservatives is that the issue isContinue Reading

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Cornwall ON – Law enforcement officials I’ve spoken to say that White Collar crime and fraud are the biggest crimes in Canada.   The Harper Government is supposed to be tough on crime although after the Rahim Jaffer incident it has been suggested that your party affiliation could impact theContinue Reading

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Cornwall ON- So is it time for me to reconsider my position on Michael Ignatieff the Liberals?     For those that don’t know I used to be a card holding Federal Liberal, but left after Mr. Ignatieff’s leadership announcement and a certain bewilderment at my local Liberal riding brainContinue Reading

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Cornwall ON – The Stormont, Dundas and South Glengarry Federal Green Party will be hosting a General Meeting  Tuesday, March 22, 2011. The meeting will take place at Island Ink Jet, 8 Third Street West, in Cornwall, beginning at 6:30 pm. All members of the party, and everyone else whoContinue Reading

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Cornwall ON – Quite recently, the CRTC, the federal government body charged with regulating the various communications industries in Canada, decided that independent Internet Service Providers (ISPs) would have to put a cap on the amount of bandwidth a customer could download each month. In other words, a business orContinue Reading

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Cornwall ON – So it looks like the Harper government has found a way to say the heck with roads and infrastructure; let’s build Hockey rinks! Media reports are hitting the waves that a proposed change to the Gas Tax allocation to roads and infrastructure be allowed to include entertainmentContinue Reading