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CFN –  Mr. McFuddle, Mayor Jim McDonell had baby sitter Steve Clark at the Ingleside shopping centre today.  In a Cornwall Free News exclusive Reg Coffey was the sole person in attendence other than the two MPP hopefuls and party helpers. None of the public showed up to hear Mr.Continue Reading

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Cornwall ON – I just received a phone call from Tim Hudak’s media guy; Jason Lietaer phoned me up.  What is it with Conservatives and threatening me with legal action?  Mr. Hudak is visiting Cornwall this afternoon, and is the only leader to demand accreditation for events.    So IContinue Reading

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CFN –  As we enter week two of the Ontario provincial election things are heating up here in SD&SG.   Provincially the Liberals seem to have made up their lost ground.  According to Eric Grenier’s Three Hundred Eight site the Grits would form a minority government if the election hadContinue Reading

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CFN – Recent events inOntario politics have caused me to reminisce about our not too distant past.   In 1945, An aeronautics firm named Hawker Siddeley purchased the former Victory Aircraft firm in Malton Ontario, and renamed the operation A.V. Roe Canada Limited. Commonly known as “Avro” , it wasContinue Reading

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Cornwall ON – In a stunning turn of events Conservative  NDP candidate for SD&SG in the upcoming Provincial election truly illustrated how the Provincial wing of the NDP is not their Grand-Father’s NDP by being the only candidate to not be willing to take the DO the Math 5 dayContinue Reading

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CFN – So I’ve been paying pretty close attention to the message put out by the parties in Ontario this go around; even a year in advance, since certain parties tend to start their attack ads years before the writ actually drops! So it was with a great deal ofContinue Reading

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Cornwall ON –  Tim Hudak was politically spanked this week, and it may in the end cost him the election; although I don’t think he really had much of a chance to win to start? Hudak and his Tea Party Progressive Conservatives pounced like a hyena on a three leggedContinue Reading

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Lancaster ON –  It was an educational night in Lancaster Ontario as Mayor Jim “McFuddle” McDonell, who also is the PC candidate for SD&SG Moonwalked on by law  32-11 which would have raised water taxes for multi residential buildings by almost 300%. Building owner Sue and one of her tenantsContinue Reading

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Cornwall ON –   Isn’t it odd that that Progressive Conservative candidate for SD&SG Jim “McFuddle” McDonell has to have baby sitters when he has a speaking engagement?  Usually it’s Steve Clark, a very Mayor McFuddle strong politician who doesn’t seem to need full day  Kindergarten the way that Mr.Continue Reading

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First of all there are many existing programs to fund companies to employee Canadians such as the Eastern Ontario Development Fund, the Rural Economic Development program, Second Career and Employment Ontario. PROFESSIONAL NEW IMMIGRANTS, architects, engineers, lawyers, doctors, nurses, dentists are often not given a job because they don’t have Canadian experience. Continue Reading

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Lancaster ON –It was a lovely night for a meeting, but sadly this meeting was not a joyous one in this small Ontario community near the Quebec border.   A group of  building owners were concerned about what they could South Glengarry Mayor, PC Provincial candidate, and Racoon expert JimContinue Reading

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Cornwall ON –   I watched a debate Wednesday night.  It was hosted by the Labour Council here in Cornwall and the President of the Council was actually one of the candidates debating.     It really was an opportunity to watch those competing to be our next MPP inContinue Reading

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Cornwall ON –  Mr. McFuddle was not a happy camper tonight as he muddled through the 2nd (Yes Standard Free Holder, 2nd) All Candidates debate for SD&SG Ontario.   The event,  held by the Labour Council in spite of its President, Cornwall City Councillor Elaine MacDonald being the NDP candidate,Continue Reading

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Cornwall ON – Once again, the TV Consortium has decided to exclude the Green Party Leader, Mike Schreiner, from the televised leaders’ debate, to be broadcast September 27. Although other provincial broadcast consortia have (or are planning) to allow their provincial Green Parties into the debate (e.g. PEI), the OntarioContinue Reading

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Cornwall ON –Provincial Liberal Candidate Mark MacDonald has some big shoes to fill, now that current MPP Jim Brownell is retiring. Although he has been campaigning for a while now, with the official opening of the Liberal campaign office on Pitt and Seventh in Cornwall, the campaign is now inContinue Reading