CFN – It’s odd how politics and politicians work? Tuesday a group including MPP Steve Clark from Leeds-Grenville, MPP Grant Crack and Minister Brad Duguid attended Kemptville to review the facility, after, it was announced to be closed. With a solution in place for the Francophone Alfred Campus MPP ClarkContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – So I attended the Chamber mixer at Table 21 Tuesday. I don’t go to many of these any more because frankly our Chamber here in Cornwall is a colossal joke. Corrupt, full of cronyism, and totally inept. From strange elections, to going hat in handContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – The problem with the Municipal Act is that the conflict of interest rules clearly have no teeth nor proper clarity. As a matter of fact only the person in conflict can call conflict which is akin to asking shoplifters to turn themselves in. Councilor Denis CarrContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – When politics take over principles we all lose. Today it was announced that the Cornwall General Hospital site was sold to developers in Ottawa for $2M. We have not confirmed that number as the Hospital has not sent us a release. Sadly politics doomedContinue Reading
CFN – Canadians lost a combined $1.1 billion, or an average of $1,202 per patient, as a result of lengthy waits for medically necessary health care in 2013, finds a new study released today by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank. The study, The Private Cost of Public QueuesContinue Reading
CFN – Deputy Mayor Tammy Hart is trying to rephrase some of the statements she’s made in earlier documents and releases. Ms Hart harps on transparency and accountability. She bleats about saving money for taxpayers so let’s take a closer look and see how transparent and accountable she reallyContinue Reading
CFN – The Kemptville Agricultural program has a glimmer of hope. Today, after much community pressure; especially from Conservative members in the region the Wynne government blinked and Minister Brad Duguid issued the following statement late Friday. I am pleased to hear that St. Lawrence College and Algonquin CollegeContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – While Mayor Bob Kilger and his council in Cornwall can spin the current discussions with the Federal Government over the Harbour lands, the bottom line is that council gave a green light with a 8-1 vote (councilor Samson was in Florida again) for the Mayor and ClerkContinue Reading
CFN – South Stormont Deputy Mayor Tammy Hart claims to be a champion for Accountability and Transparency. She also claims to be worried about the public purse, but her actions, sadly, seem to move in the opposite direction. She has a rabidly loyal following; but like Rob Ford’s following; theContinue Reading
An Open Letter to the Taxpayers of South Stormont March 18, 2014 Four members of Council have decided collectively to take this unprecedented step to inform our taxpayers on an issue that has discredited the integrity of four members of your elected Council and Township staff. There has been aContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – Like something out of the movie Chinatown it looks like the Mayor and some of his team have been caught gerrymandering in the dark with regards to the divestiture of Harbour lands in Cornwall. What should simply have been a municipal government yielding to the will ofContinue Reading
CFN – The Mohawk Council of Akwesasne is closely following Quebec’s upcoming provincial election and the direction in which provincial leaders are proposing to go if they get into power. The media has indicated a potential of a Quebec referendum to separate from Canada should the political power change in theContinue Reading
With health care in Ontario taking about half of the annual budget and rising, have you wondered how much administration cost there is, even before the hospital’s share? Is that an area to review for savings? We see much dedication and administration expense towards the promotion of French throughContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – In this edition of the 11th Councilor I’m going to talk about Dogs. Not our city going to the dogs, but about a new by law that might be time here in our fair city, and that is to not allow the sale of dogs except byContinue Reading
CFN – Youth retention is a huge issue in Cornwall Ontario, and while it’s easy to make it an election issue there’s very little any candidate can do to change the course and direction of what’s happening here in our fair city. Today I was talking with a young manContinue Reading
CFN – Organic Council of Ontario (OCO) board member Tom Manley called for continued diploma education programs, organic dairy research, and rural waste water management research at Alfred Ontario in Eastern Ontario. Mr. Manley, owner of Homestead Organics in Eastern Ontario, is also the President of the Alfred CollegeContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – In Shakespearean tales things usually start with a storm and end with sunshine. Weather can be a predictor of a good story. Today’s story is one of hate and willful ignorance. While South Stormont Deputy Mayor seems to be targeting it at CFN and myself theContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – Nearby Prescott Russell MPP Grant Crack rode shotgun with a few ministers of the Wynne Government as they brought a few bags of money to Cornwall to help with our failing infrastructure and flooding issues. In particular the reconstruction of sewers on Eleventh, Grand and Miron, and redirectionContinue Reading