Cornwall ON – As summer returns to Canada, Liberal MPs have scrambled for the exits and fled our capital city. No doubt they will be doing a lot of navel gazing this summer and probably a lot of plotting too. Liberals will have a chance to review their very dismalContinue Reading
Cornwall ON – City Council got jiggy with the hospital funding issue in a special meeting Tuesday afternoon. I can understand the anger of many of the councilors. With Surgeries being cancelled due to funding issues; doctors leaving, threatening to leave, or just lower morale, Cornwall has done aContinue Reading
Cornwall ON – It was interesting watching Councilor Bernadette Clement’s attempt to bring back the Gymnasium project be discussed around the council table as it essentially became a gender issue; especially in the recorded vote. It’s been a roller coaster watching the odd operatic efforts on both sides of theContinue Reading
Cornwall ON – Click the photo above to go LISTEN LIVE at 8:30 AM Tuesday June 22 or via podcast after to the Political Round Up with your host Jamie Gilcig. Special guests at 9AM will be Joe Gunn and Denis Sabourin who will be covering the hot political topicsContinue Reading
Cornwall ON – The last week has seen a few changes deep within the Prime Minister’s Office. I will begin by saying that staff changes at this time of the year are not unusual as the House has recessed for the summer. Nor is PMO immune from this happening asContinue Reading
MPP Jim Brownell (centre) congratulates CCRI Secretary-Treasurer Elaine Kennedy (left) and Vice-Chair Patrick Finucan (right) on their success. Cornwall Residents Will Become A Driving Force Cornwall, ON – The Cornwall Carbon Reduction Initiative (CCRI) is launching a new project, with the help of a new $46,900 grant from the Community GoContinue Reading
Cornwall ON – When you vote to spend thousands of dollars to attract new doctors to come to your city it can be frustrating when red tape cuts budgets that end up having doctors leave. That’s exactly what has Cornwall City Councilors Andre Rivette and Syd Gardiner upset as you’llContinue Reading
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 – Yesterday, the Law Clerk and Legal Counsel for Parliament, Rob Walsh, came out with a decision that says political staffers must show up if requested to do so by a committee. Indeed, he advises that even the Prime Minister can be required to show up. This isContinue 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 – Is Stephen Harper a spent force? Yes, he’s Prime Minister of a minority government; but it’s been a maligned government which has done far too much to sow disunity in our country. So much disunity that the thought of coalitions start to make more and more sense.Continue 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 – Saturday June 12 there was a world wide protest against BP and the devastation caused by their oil spill. It took place in over 40 locations around the globe. Louise Wilson and Catherine Lee-Paul organized a local protest via facebook, one of 5 in Canada atContinue 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 – Michael Ignatieff is faced with some pretty tough choices over the next few weeks, but they can be summed up by fight or flight. Either way, in the short term it will significantly cripple the Liberal Party’s ability to take on the Conservative government. Yesterday’s affidavit byContinue Reading