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I would like to clarify just where the CVA stands in reference to Bill C-55 and the recent politicalization of our most vulnerable veterans plight. I am profoundly disappointed to note that other veterans groups are proactively supporting Bill C-55 by encouraging their membership to contact opposition senators claiming theContinue Reading

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I am a country girl, and CEO of a company in Embrun, who pays substantial personal, property and corporate taxes. I am responding to Mr. Van Dusen’s article about the wolf and coyote cull and  would like to add my voice to the animal activists and ratepayers who are defendingContinue Reading

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Dear Editor Re:  PM comes to defence of attack aircraft, Terry Pender,  Mar 12 2011 http://www.therecord.com/news/local/article/500718–pm-comes-to-defence-of-attack-aircraft The F-35 purchase will no doubt create high-tech jobs, but so would many other government expenditures totaling between $16 to $30 billion.  But why are we spending this enormous sum through an untendered contractContinue Reading

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Dear Editor, The recent disingenuous response by Dimitri Soudas, director of communications in Stephen Harper’s PMO, to public outrage concerning the replacement on government documents of “The Government of Canada” by “The Harper Government” is self-serving partisan politics, an abuse of the term. Within parliament the government is the primeContinue Reading

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Strikes and demonstrations among textile workers in 1911 marked the beginning of the labour movement’s call for women’s right to work, vote, hold office and end discrimination. At the 100-year mark, women around the world and in Canada in particular, celebrate considerable progress. For example, at work and in politics,Continue Reading

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Dear Editor, Sixty-seven conservative candidates knowingly submitted false statements to Elections Canada, including 10 conservative members of parliament. . The matter has been tried in court and they have been found guilty by the Canadian Federal Court of Appeal for falsifying returns. . The appropriate legal remedy for violating theContinue Reading

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Dear Editor, The “Alerte-Info-Alert-bot memo about the situation involving International Development Minister Bev Oda, who stands accused by her political opponents of the serious charge of lying to Parliament” *.placed in the hands of Conservative M.P’s included the statement, “We stand by Minister Oda and her decision not to provideContinue Reading

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Dear editor In the Seaway News of February 17th, Mr. Denis Thibault had an article about building local economy through culture. He introduces culture as new economic and demographic realities, as a strengthening quality of life, as a magnet that attracts and retains creative people, as the 4th pillar ofContinue Reading

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Dear Sir: I have been an unabashed Liberal for most of my life; I have been king-maker but never the king, working from within the Party for what I believe has been the common good.  One of my unhappiest moments was to hear the incumbent, Jim Brownell, declare he is retiring for IContinue Reading

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Dear Sir: So, we have yet another episode in the Harper Government Play Centre.  Now we have a member of the cabinet telling blatant lies and a Prime Minister who upholds her right to tell those lies.  It is very, very difficult to rationalise the Conservative Party pulling ahead inContinue Reading

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Dear Editor: Recent local media reports stated that the Conservatives feel this Riding is “critical” for them and attempted to highlight the negative.  It’s important to point out the positive and that with the help of our well respected MPP Jim Brownell, we have done pretty well locally. The HospitalContinue Reading

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Lunenberg ON – The Ontario PC Party under Tim Hudak seems to have come to the conclusion that if they shout all their sound bites, nobody will notice the complete lack of substance in what they are saying. . This was certainly true of Tory MPPs Lisa McLeod and SteveContinue Reading

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South Stormont ON – Deputy Mayor Tammy A Hart of South Stormont Ontario sent us a letter to the editor regarding the song “Money for Nothing” by Mark Knopfler and his band Dire Straits. The song is being banned of late for the term “Faggot” which I believe was hisContinue Reading

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Since my first Letter to the Editor, many people of Cornwall have contacted me,wanting to know more  about fluoridation.  Across Canada and the U.S. many cities are starting to say no to fluoride. Waterloo, Ontario voted it out on October 29, 2010. Calgary, Alberta is working on voting it out thisContinue Reading

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In 2007, Dalton Mcguinty ripped up a previously-prepared plan on rebuilding hydro that would have cost $60 billion and after experimenting with energy policy over the last three years the Liberals now say their plan will cost $87 billion. The people of Ontario  know the real cost may be billions higher as nothing ever comes in on budget and Mcguinty can’tContinue Reading