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Dimitry Lashoul (St. Catharines,Ontario), 2 days ago

So it's illegal for humans to urinate in public, but we have to deal with horse droppings on our downtown streets and walkways? The logic of our politicians and police is confusing. And business owners have to either clean it up or let it rot in front of their stores. I guess they could always hope that the pile kicked to the curb by the cops gets smushed into a customers tire treads instead. Watch your step as you get out of your cars when parking curbside folks! If the police have been by, theres no telling what you could step in.

Commentariat (Niagara,Ontario), 2 days ago

In the Oct.8, 2008 St. Catharines Standard story “Health services a federal election issue”, why isn’t Liberal incumbent John Maloney revealing whether he has ever contacted the provincial government of Ontario, under whose jurisdiction health care is a constitutional responsibility? Did the Ontario government respond to Maloney’s meddling?

What, if anything, has Premier McGuinty said to Maloney on this issue? Why hasn’t Maloney revealed what specific answers he has been given by McGuinty’s Liberal MPP’s in Niagara, Jim Bradley, or Kim Craitor?

Has Liberal Maloney told Liberals Bradley or Craitor that their health care system in Niagara is full of baloney?

Why has Jim Bradley said nothing about the HIP plan, or the hospital location, or the NHS's funding problems??

Why isn’t Kim Craitor responding to Maloney’s accusations?

Why aren’t any Ontario provincial government Liberals even mentioned in this St. Catharines Standard story? Were any McGuinty Liberals asked to comment on Liberal Maloney’s views?

Where have all the billions of dollars gone that Bradley and Craitor’s Liberals took from us since 2004 with their provincial 'Health Shift' tax? Did any reporter ask that question of any federal or provincial Liberal?

How can Liberal Maloney open his mouth about these issues when obviously it is McGuinty’s Liberal government which has underfunded the health system for years? It is the McGuinty government which is incompetent and running health-care into the ground.

It was Maloney’s federal Liberals who raised billions in surplus under the Paul Martin/ Jean Chretien regime.

These federal Liberals today brag that they were supposedly somehow such good financial stewards – but, let’s not forget: the Liberals raised this surplus by overtaxing us, and then, for years, CUTTING their transfer payments to the provinces!

This is a direct legacy of John Maloney’s OWN federal Liberal government! Maloney was there for all of that!

Ontario’s health care system - run by Dalton McGuinty’s Liberal majority government - has killed nearly 500 Ontario patients with C Difficile, yet McGuinty refuses to allow any investigation of this travesty. Has Maloney ever publicly demanded any answers from Liberal McGuinty regarding the C Difficile deaths in McGuinty’s public hospitals? These hospitals are NOT ‘private’ as some hot-aired candidates like to pretend: they are fully under McGuinty’s Liberal management, under Liberal control, and under Liberal funding.

Liberal Maloney’s health care rhetoric is just a diversion - his tactics and unaccountable big-government beliefs are one and the same as those used by Liberals McGuinty, Craitor, and Bradley.

Maloney is not the solution - Maloney is the problem.

Js (st. catharines,ontario), 2 days ago

In Doug Herod’s Oct.8, 2008 St. Catharines Standard story, “Dykstra’s kids are all right, despite Lastewka’s attacks,” Herod for some reason failed to mention that candidate Walter Lastewka and his federal Liberal party plagiarised and stole another Canadian company’s name when they called their tax-increase policy the “green shift”.

Lastewka’s Liberals ignored the legitimate owner’s request that the Liberals stop using the name, forcing the company which really owned the name to take the Liberals to court.

Furthermore, the “green shift” policy itself isn’t even a Liberal idea anyway – the Liberals plagiarised THAT from other parties, stealing their ideas to pass them off as their own.

Anonymouns (Welland,Ontario), 3 days ago

Looky, looky here. St. Catharines Standard reported, "Parents of punched boy sue for $3.7 million" and "Children must learn responsibility early in life
(re: DM Highschool)."Parents it seems that we don't have a problem with our youth today (sarcasm) in regards to bullying and anger management. Take a look around.

Pat (St. Catharines,O n t a r i o ), 3 days ago

Re: Climate change battle plan, Oct.8, 2008 story in the St. Catharines Standard, by Matthew Van Dongen:

“A “climate change startup team” has worked on the plan since July 2007, when regional council passed a motion from St. Catharines Mayor Brian McMullan vowing to make Niagara a leader in the fight against global warming.”

Seriously, Brian McMullan should provide evidence that he can be a leader in his phony "fight against" supposed “global warming”.

What specific proof do St. Catharines Mayor Brian McMullan or Niagara Region Chairman Peter Partington have that there is anything they can do in their ridiculous “fight against global warming”? On what basis do they subscribe to the anthropogenic climate change theory?

This is another government waste of time and money. These are meaningless, empty gestures in a futile, and dubious, cause.

Their 'successes' so far: garden tips and “greening the fleet”?! Come on, give me a break, are these politicians for real?

And now they want to hire more staff for this dubious scam?

McMullan and Partington are peddling a dangerous and deceptive political policy with their faux environmentalism.

Horst Klaus (St. Catharines,Ontario), 5 days ago

What are we still doing in Afghanistan? Finally an honest opinion about the seemingly endless occupation of Afghanistan from one who should know best. As reported in the U.K. "Sunday Times", the British Brigade General and top man in Afghanistan, Mark Cartton Smith stated that "A victory is unrealistic and it would be best to come to an agreement with taliban representatives. The NATO presence makes peace less possible. That is why I can't vote for Harper and the P.C., he even wanted to help invade Iraq!

Mrs. Braun (St. Catharines,Ontario), 5 days ago

Kudos to Michael Olson and the organizers of the Niagara Food Festival. My husband and I attended Friday night for the first time, and then brought the kids back on Saturday morning. Our 3 year old wants to go back again next year. We all had a great time. The "local lane" was a brilliant touch, and we picked up quite a few goodies, from amazing apples to maple syrup to Christmas gifts for family.

I want to extend a special thank you for the simple fact that we were not prevented from bringing in outside food for our children. Our son has a nut allergy, which can make events like this dicey. But we had no problems bringing in a sandwich for him and some appropriate food for his little sister. I am very pleased with their recognition of special circumstances, unlike another community event recently.

Well done everyone.

Christabel Bremner (Cobalt and Temiskaming Shores,Ontario), 7 days ago

Oh! If only those pears could be shipped to the food banks of Northern Ontario. The Cobalt, Coleman, Latchford and Area Food Bank would welcome a donation.

Sergei Iosifovich (Welland,Ontario), 9 days ago

With Regards to the article "Clarification"

The CPC-ML was never associated with the CPC, Where Mr. Walker comes up with that, I do not know.

Kneisha Shah (St. Catharines,Ontario), 9 days ago

Police cracked down on people drinking on the street along the parade route? About time! Good on them for finally doing their jobs. Keep up the good work.