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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

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Cornwall ON – Openmedia.ca has started a campaign to fight metered internet here in Canada. The CRTC just announced they will reexamine metered billing practices. They are seeking public input right now! This is a huge opportunity to stop Internet metering, and to ensure Canadians have access to an unlimited Internet.Continue Reading

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Cornwall ON – Click the image on the left to LISTEN LIVE or via PODCAST to the Political Round table starting at 9:00 AM every Tuesday morning. Pundits Denis Sabourin and Joe Gunn cover some of the hottest political topics locally, regionally, and beyond! Keith Beardsley joins us with hisContinue Reading

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Cornwall ON – Mario Leclerc, Service Canada payment officer in Cornwall, is announcing his intention to seek the federal NDP party nomination in the riding of Stormont, Dundas and South Glengarry. . Leclerc, a resident of Cornwall, also serves as President of the Public Service Alliance Canada (PSAC) Eastern Ontario Council and asContinue Reading

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Ottawa ON – It took a few days, but Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s meeting with President Barack Obama has caused major concern throughout the opposition parties. The issue of promoting more trade between Canada and the U.S took a back seat once again to the Americans ongoing insecurities about ourContinue Reading

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Cornwall ON – Despite everything the Harper Government says to the contrary, Canada, the US, and most of the Western World are still mired in the 2008 depression, and will remain so for the foreseeable future. The reason is simple and has nothing to do with the “subprime” mortgage crisis.Continue Reading

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Cornwall ON – I’m very very confused as I write this.    The battle to fight the ridiculous decision by the CRTC to allow the big internet providers to charge excess and abusive amounts for band widths are on hold for 60 days. Hurrah!  Methinks, or methinks not.   TonyContinue Reading

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Ottawa ON – Will someone please pass the smelling salts to our red chambered senators? It’s time they woke up in the real world. The decision by the Senate Committee of Internal Economy to continue to allow senators to send out a party’s political propaganda is plainly wrong. Were theyContinue Reading