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Cornwall City Councilor and Liberal Party of Canada’s next Federal Candidate for SD&G Bernadette Clément sent in this comment regarding this weekends actions and bridge closure. “From the very beginning, the lack of respectful and effective dialogue has made matters more difficult. “Our community is rightly worried about the futureContinue Reading
So the government of Canada accumulated a very large list of vehicles that passed from the US to the Island without reporting to CBSA since the bridge reopened. They are now pegging the cars on this list off as they pass through the temporary station in Cornwall. This just isn’tContinue Reading
L I N K Mike Peeling today writes some spin about the bridge closing on Saturday. Still no real answers though. If it was one person that caused a ruckus surely there were other solutions than closing an International Border Crossing and impacting the area communities as happened? Why noContinue Reading
UPDATE L I N K This morning myself and several others posted comments to the link thread on the Standard Freeholder. All comments have been deleted. That’s a black eye and frankly if the paper is going to do that then they probably shouldn’t have a comment option period. ThisContinue Reading
We area creating two polls about the activity by CBSA seizing of Akwesasne Resident’s vehicles and the closing of the bridge. Thanks for voting and please visit our sponsors:Continue Reading
What an odd day. It started with the bridge being shut down. The reports coming in consistently point to an individual who had their vehicle impounded not wanting financial assistance from the MCA who had been paying the $1,000.00 fines or bounty’s to recover vehicles. The party started to tryContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – The entrance to the International bridge to Akwesasne and the US was shut down this afternoon after another vehicle seizure. Reports indicate that after a single person attempted to block the roadway CBSA officials requested that Chief Swamp of the Akwesasne Police Force shut the bridge. ThisContinue Reading
It was a long night at the tent. It’s getting colder at night too and it looks like a building is going to be erected on the site of the tent as the weather makes Tenting not the best solution for a determined group of people. What amazed me mostContinue Reading
Hmm…election drama dies down, government goes on the war path. Here’s a press release from the MCA released today. For immediate release: Seskehko:wa/ September 18, 2009 For information contact: Mohawk Government Office Mohawk Council of Akwesasne Tel: (613) 575-2348 AKWESASNE LEADERSHIP RESPONDS TO CBSA ATTACK AGAINST COMMUNITY MEMBERS Akwesasne —ThisContinue Reading
I was shocked and surprised to read Lorne Wiebe’s commentary today. Copyright laws prevent me from showing you in full so I’m going to put the link and excerpt a bit. L I N K the link takes you to the commentary page which changes each weekday so you mayContinue Reading
That’s Jack Layton with one of our occasional contributors Jason Setnyk. Jason wasn’t available to interview Mr. Layton so I filled in. I have to tell you, the man is much more fun to interview than some I’ve done. I think if more people could spend time with him oneContinue Reading
L I N K That’s the link to Lorne Wiebe’s opinion piece today. He was going off on Mark MacDonald and Mary Ann Hug’s suggestion in Concil to form a committee to examine how to expand the population of Cornwall. I was sitting and listening to John Bolton in betweenContinue Reading
Do you know anyone that got a job at the new Government Call Centre? Even as a janitor? All that talk; all that improvement, pointing to the government website only to not see the posting. Were the jobs all gobbled up by government employees from Ottawa? Email usContinue Reading
I’ve spent a lot of time covering the Bridge Crisis this year. The more I talk to people the less I understand on the Island and I have an above average IQ even if I can’t spell worth squat. We have the Mohawk people, who some Mohawk people claim areContinue Reading
Busy night at City Council. It’s always good to see so many people attend even if a bunch were a Ball team. Our Mayor Bob Kilger always is happiest at these meetings when some sports team or person is present and he had the players and coaches from the BlackContinue Reading
We at The Cornwall Free News wish to offer our congratulations to Mr Rawnsley and his Campaign manager Lorna Foreman. For immediate release Cornwall September 14th, 2009. The Green Party is pleased to announce that David Rawnsley will once again be their Federal Candidate in the riding of Stormont-Dundas-South Glengarry.Continue Reading
The Plaques say it all. It was a lovely time yesterday in the Parc as they and the Founders’ Memorial Cairn were officially unveiled. The meeting was chaired by Cornwall City Councilor Bernadette Clément, but all the major politician’s came out to speak. Ms Clément led off followed by MayorContinue Reading