Holiday Stress: How to Avoid It – By Markus Noé Tis the season for everyone to be surrounded with yuletide joy, happiness and everything else that goes with Christmas. But does anyone really enjoy the Christmas holidays as much as the multi-million dollar corporations hope we do, so in turn we go intoContinue Reading
Industry Minister Tony Clement talks to the Globe and Mail about the financial recovery. L I N K “If there was one thing you want to achieve in government this year that you believe would help Canada’s industrial sector, what would it be? [Government and universities have] actively engaged inContinue Reading
Online Networking Phenomenon Twitter has just signed two deals with Google and Bing (MSN) that will result in Tweets or mini blog entries being indexed to Search engine queries. L I N K “In October, Twitter said it had struck multiyear arrangements that make users’ short blog postings available on Google.comContinue Reading
Houses without Furnaces So far we’ve been quite lucky – the fall has been mild, and it hasn’t been until the last few days that winter has really struck. However, with all the white stuff on the ground, temperatures are only going to fall, and our heating bills are onlyContinue Reading
SD&G Economic News Update by Roger Sauvé – Cornwall EI recipients up 46% in October Cornwall Ontario – December 22, 2009. Statistics Canada reported that the number of people in Cornwall receiving regular Employment Insurance (EI) jumped by 46% in October from a year earlier. The number of recipients in the Hawkesbury regionContinue Reading
Team Cornwall played host this morning to the city of Cornwall’s 2009 Year in Review held at Aultsville hall, located on St. Lawrence College campus. Gilles Latour Chair of Team Cornwall was the MC of the event which saw MP Guy Lauzon, MPP Jim Brownell and Mayor Bob Kilger inContinue Reading
Naughty Tiger Woods may have to cough up to half his estate. Frankly, if I were him, I’d save the legal bills and just roll it over. There really isn’t too much he can possibly say in his defense, and America especially respects you a tad more whenContinue Reading
You have 5 days to get your tix to the hottest event in Cornwall; the 2009 Annual Year in Review. Last year Mayor Bob Kilger announced the new Shoppers Drugmart Distribution Centre coming to Cornwall. This year the only way you’ll find out first what’s going to happen isContinue Reading
Canada has some funny views about communications. They tend to grant monopolies that make huge amounts of money for companies like Ma Bell and the cable companies on the back of the users, IE, we taxpayers. Competition isn’t really heard of. The result is that Canada has one of theContinue Reading
The Year in Review meeting is a popular meeting that is expected to attract hundreds of business people, including special guests from outside of the City. The meeting will be held on Friday, December 18, 2008 at 7:00 am, at Aultsville Theatre at St. Lawrence College. The highlight of theContinue Reading
ROGER SAUVÉ – The People of Cornwall and SD&G – A 10 week feature for the Cornwall Free News – Week 4 – Job numbers down 1,800 this year How is the job market in Cornwall? This question is not as easy to answer as you might think. Employment estimates,Continue Reading
We all want better jobs; a better economy, more chickens in our pots so why when a progressive tax is put in place is there so much hoopla to try and bring it down? To me it comes down to partisan politics and that’s sad for something as important asContinue Reading
Nobody wants to pay tax. I sure as heck don’t. Taxes though, like death, are something you can’t avoid. The challenge for society is how to tax fairly. Doctrines can be voted on and discussed, but the status quo is that we Canadians, whether at Federal, Provincial, or Municipal levelsContinue Reading
L I N K It’s a good day to go cross border shopping as our Canadian Loonie is buying more in the US. The Loonie is almost on par withe the US dollar. Fueled by high oil prices and a declining US dollar the high loonie hurts employment inContinue Reading
Last time I stepped into Pommier Jewellers here in Cornwall the store was packed with happy shoppers. Is the high price of gold causing you to buy or sell? Gold hit $1070.80 US in London yesterday, a new world record. I always get nervous when a stock or financial deviceContinue Reading
Real Estate listings in several area cities such as Ottawa and locally in Cornwall have prices inching upwards, especially while interest rates are so low, are sparking questions where to put your money safely? The Stock Market isn’t for everyone, and I personally, like some of you, are not bigContinue Reading
L I N K The banks stand to lose a few hundred million dollars per year in profits from the new Credit card rules being implemented, most as of January 1. Many say the new laws aren’t stringent enough, but this is a good start. “The regulations had been inContinue Reading
I’ve always felt that the stock market has been a basic game of 3 card monte. You can “guess” right, but you have no real control of how it can go. The market can defy logic at times, and that usually is because what the average consumer knows is aContinue Reading