Cornwall ON- Long time Cornwall Ontario City Councilor Syd Gardiner has announced he’s running again. He filed his papers this afternoon at city hall and we had the opportunity to catch up with the grizzled veteran of many campaigns here in Cornwall Ontario. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1PntjwKLH8 To reach Councilor Gardner you canContinue Reading
Cornwall ON – Federal Liberals in SD&SG celebrated Sunday by having their Strawberry social at the Best Western Parkway Inn and Conference Centre. The guest speaker was Liberal MP Marlene Jennings Notre Dame De Grâce – Lachine. Ms Jennings is quite the speaker as she shared with the crowd thatContinue Reading
Cornwall ON – City Council can be like very very bad opera. There was a mood of Weirdness Monday night at Cornwall Ontario city council wrangled with the Gymnasium issue again. Councilor Bernadette Clement; a lawyer by profession, brought back from the dead and essentially overturned a vote byContinue Reading
Cornwall ON – This is going to be a true test of Social Networking. Local School teacher, poet, photographer, musician, writer, and political activist Jason Setnyk has announced his candidacy for City Council on Cornwall Ontario today. He’s using Facebook as a tool in his campaign as well asContinue Reading
Cornwall ON – Click the picture above to listen to our political open chat show featuring guests Keith Beardsley,our View from the Hill Columnist and Singer/Song Writers Nancy Beaudette and Graham Greer as we chat about the new Copyright laws. Click Marina Restinetti’s picture above to join her and herContinue Reading
Cornwall ON – Steve Clark, MPP Leeds Grenville in SDSG yesterday, spoke about how the HST will affect families when it is implemented on July 1, 2010. The Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) will increase the cost of a host of goods and services, including haircuts, shoes, funerals, heating bills, electricity,Continue Reading
Cornwall ON – The drums are still faint in the far distance. October is coming, but July should start to firm up the election plate here in Cornwall Ontario. So far it looks like nobody is willing to take on Mayor Bob Kilger. An old news hound here inContinue Reading
Cornwall ON – There’s a lot of spin right now and it’s as choppy as the waves bringing that BP oil to American and possibly Canadian shores. BP is spending a lot of money maneurvering search engines and media as they try and spin the story to minimize the impactContinue Reading
Cornwall ON – It was a sold out dinner Friday June 4th. The annual Spaghetti Fundraiser was a well attended blast. Organizations and businesses could buy tables and the public attended the dinner with music. It was a good time had by all and of course wherever youContinue Reading
MOHAWK COUNCIL OF AKWESASNE WANTS SUBSTANTIVE TALKS WITH CBSA TO BEGIN AKWESASNE MOHAWK TERRITORY, — When CBSA closed the crossing through Cornwall Island on May 31, 2009, the Mohawks and the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) agreed to form a Task Force on how to find long term solutions to the problemsContinue Reading
Cornwall ON – If you love local music you’ll want to be at Liberalpalooza. Graham Greer, The Trench Town Oddities, Sara Murphy, Joel Sauve, and Melanie and the General Electryk will be LIVE! The fund raiser hosted by the friends of Bernadette Clement and The Federal Liberal RidingContinue Reading
A Stronger Canada Pension Plan For your entire career you work hard and build a good life for your family. Every Pay cheque, your deductions include a small amount that is tucked away in your public pension plan. When retirement comes, you expect to be able to live in dignity with some measureContinue Reading
Cornwall ON – Today marks the one year anniversary of the Seaway International Bridge Crisis. On May 31st, at approximately 11:PM Canada Border & Security Agents left their posts at the behest of the Harper Government leading to a 42 day bridge closure. Fast forward to today, the 1stContinue Reading
BRIDGING THE CHASM letter to the Editor by John Milnes Cornwall ON – Our Member of Parliament, Guy Lauzon, and his Conservative play-pals must soon get their act together. Are they still studying how to construct a low level bridge? Someone should mutter in their ears many low level bridges have beenContinue Reading
Cornwall ON – We’re talking Accoutability this afternoon on Seawayradio.com – We expect some surprise guests and of course you can dial in and have your word! Community radio live from Cornwall Ontario! Our phone numbers are :1 (646) 595-4982, 1 (877) 217-3932 and of course you can alwaysContinue Reading
No raise for city council Cornwall ON – After a grueling debate over the city councils pay increase, the end result was “No.” Many options were brought forward to the table but no one seemed to agree on a solution. One alternative was to include their expense account directly intoContinue Reading
Cornwall ON – It should be fun at Council this Tuesday. City Councilor Mark MacDonald has organized a Facebook page and movement protesting the possibility that the Council will give themselves a 36.8% salary increase. Very few of the councilors I’ve spoken with over the last week have beenContinue Reading
Cornwall ON – So it looks like I’ll be shooting a documentary here in the area over the next year. It’s going to be a political odyssey. I’ve been asked to run for office, and the official announcement should be coming out in June with specific details. I’ve doneContinue Reading