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It was a breathtaking night in local politics at the Knights of Columbus hall. Local Liberals turned out in record numbers to attend the nomination meeting. Only one candidate was on the docket, which wasn’t surprising to any in attendence. It’s part of Ms Bernadette Clément’s charm, pulling people togetherContinue Reading
This past week a meeting was held. It was a small grass roots meeting, a tad less than 20 people, most of them young, but they had a goal which was to save Pride Cornwall which is slated to close in October. They had two special guest VIP’s attend. OttawaContinue Reading
Rock the Vote is one wild party! Sponsored by The Cornwall District Labour Council and the Brain Child of the Cornwall Underground’s Jason Setnyk and City Councilor Elaine MacDonald it was a super party with a over 20 performers and speakers including Cornwall’s own, Fathom Ties. NDP Candidate to beContinue Reading
Boy Ms Clément must feel a bit like Lorraine Bracco’s character in Goodfella’s at the wedding. We managed to get some of the exclusive video footage from the event. We need a better video guy! Jim Brownell endorses Bernadette. (Apologies to Mr. Brownell as he was cut out of theContinue Reading
If you heard thunder yesterday around noon it wasn’t from the sky, but from the over packed room at The Best Western as Cornwall City Councilor Bernadette Clément was the sole candidate put forward to run for the Liberal Party of Canada in this riding. She will face off againstContinue Reading
Elaine MacDonald sent this in. Good luck Darlene. It should be quite the race this coming election. The Stormont Dundas South Glengarry NDP riding association is holding a candidate nomination meeting at the Navy Veterans’ Club, 30 Sixth Street East, on Wednesday, August 26, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. The partyContinue Reading
Tomorrow there’s a press conference scheduled for 12:15 at The Best Western in the dining room where it is expected that Cornwall City Councilor Ms Bernadette Clément will be the uncontested Liberal candidate in the next Federal election for our riding. Ms Clément could not be reached for comment. It’sContinue Reading
Jason Setnyk from The Cornwall Underground and our occasional writer/photog sent in this release and the images. See you all at Murphy’s Inn on Sunday! This Sunday August 23rd at Murphy’s Inn marks the sixth annual Rock the Vote, a concert that promotes voting to a younger demographic. “Civic responsibilitiesContinue Reading
UPDATE August 19 10PM. I confirmed some facts with Corporal Blair Kelly of the RCMP’s Proceeds of Crime Division out of Kingston this afternoon. In the case of the Escalade, about $8,000 was confiscated and is still with the RCMP. Essentially what Corporal Kelly explained is that if funds suchContinue Reading
I had a lot of fun chatting with Elizabeth May, Leader of the Federal Green Party. One of my questions was about her experience with the Dalai Lama. She said what struck her most was his ability to love his enemies in spite of what he’d gone through and theContinue Reading
There’s a lot of buzz about the recession ending. And yes, by definition we may leave an official recession, but the reality is that to truly recover from a recession jobs have to be created and people’s income’s have to rise. I don’t see that. I see inventories being usedContinue Reading
As many of you know our local TV stations have been fighting the big cable companies over $$$. It’s been a long hard battle that has crossed over partisan lines. If you click this link you’ll go to a list of politicians that have come out in support of savingContinue Reading
72% ↑ Thank you to our Cornwall Area readers and those around the world. We grew 72% last month over the month before! In six short months we’ve had almost 25,000 page views. We couldn’t have done it without you. In the next month you should be seeing and hearingContinue Reading
Not by the Standard Freeholder, although the perp posted anonymously 🙂 L I N K The topic was the new condo project at the old Cotton Mills site. “Even DemoPlus knows the score, more so certainly than “cornwallfreenews”. Poor cheerleader Jamie of the “cornwallfreenews”, ever insistant on courting favour withContinue Reading
…and there was our MP. The one that refuses to be interviewed by me. … and he was somehow going on about all he’s done during the bridge crisis. THE SOURCE ON COGECO His out was that there were things that were secret and couldn’t be discussed with the publicContinue Reading
We at The Cornwall Free News are always happy to receive letters to the Editor. Email then to info@cornwallfreenews.com – please note that the opinions shared in these letters are not the expressed opinion of the Cornwall Free News, any of its staff, ownership, or their sponsors. “Since his arrivalContinue Reading
L I N K “Even so, they were nipped by the resurgent Liberals, whose final Elections Canada tally for March to June this year was just over $4 million. In fact, the Liberals, at a cumulative $5.9 million for the first six months of 2009 under Ignatieff’s leadership, are veryContinue Reading