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Plea for income equality To the editor:
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Canadians are feeling the pinch. Families are earning less and inflation is increasing the cost of everyday essentials. Students are grappling with rising tu- ition rates and have fewer opportunities for employment when they graduate. Youth unemployment is at a historic high and stu- dent employment is at record lows. As Canadians adjust to these economic re- alities, our debt-to-income ratio has grown
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to 152%, much high- er than the United States, and entire generations of Cana- dians have little or no savings. Most of us recog- nize that income in- equality is a growing issue that is at the heart of these chal- lenges. That is why the Liberal Party
Income inequality is a key issue for Canada. We cannot assume that prosperity will be fairly shared and we can- not take prosperity itself for granted.
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GREG KIELEC greg.kielec@eap.on.ca
held a debate in Parliament on addressing income inequality and put forward several practical steps we can take immediately to reduce it. Specifically, we are calling on the government to: tSPMMCBDLUIFJSSFDFOU&NQMPZNFOU*OTVS - ance Premium hike; tFOEUIFJSQVOJUJWFOFXDMBXCBDLPG&N - QMPZNFOU*OTVSBODFCFOFöUT
A year-long investigation into cross-bor- der crime headed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has resulted in 83 charges against 12 area residents. 5IF 3$.1 BOE JUT QBSUOFS BHFODJFT BO - nounced the culmination of the investiga- tion during a press conference at the force’s detachment Thursday afternoon in Corn- wall. The bulk of the
Bob Rae Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada
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“They’re organized, they know what to do, they know we’re after them, so they are trying to stay a step ahead of us.
A Cornwall youth has been charged with arson after a fire was started in a school washroom last Wednesday. The 12-year-old was bound by an under- taking with the condition to keep the peace and be of good behaviour. The youth was charged with arson and fail to comply with an undertaking. The youth was released to an adult to appear in court on Nov. 29. City youth set fire in school washroom
in the past that their community has been VOGBJSMZUBJOUFECZUIFTNVHHMJOHJTTVF*UJT a point which was not lost on Leclerc, who took pains to stress the number of Akwe- sasne residents is not indicative of the com- munity at large. 3$.1EJTUSJDUDPNNBOEFS *OTQ5JN,JN - pan, made a point of returning to the po- dium to stress that police do not want to paint Akwesasne as the epicentre of smug- gling. -JLF$PSOXBMM UIFSFJTKVTUBiTNBMMQFS - DFOUBHFw PG "LXFTBTOF SFTJEFOUT JOWPMWFE in smuggling, he stressed. .JLF ,FOOFEZ B EFQVUZ TQFDJBM BHFOU XJUIUIF64#PSEFS&OGPSDFNFOU4FDVSJUZ MBVEFE UIF iHSFBU XPSLw EPOF JO UIF öSTU nine months of the co-operative effort. He said the operation has also resulted in the indictment of suspects in the U.S, although he could not yet reveal their identities. ,FOOFEZ TBJE UIF KPJOU PQFSBUJPO XBTiB OFXWFOUVSFwGPSIJTBHFODZCFDBVTFJUHBWF Canadian authorities the same customs rights as U.S. law enforcement.
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Among those charged are seven residents of Akwesasne, three Cornwall residents and two South Glengarry residents. They were arrested Wednesday and released to appear in court on Nov. 8. Charged are Cornwall residents Leonard $ZS +VSHFO 3FJDIXFJO BOE #SJBO (PXBO 4PVUI(MFOHBSSZSFTJEFOUT%B - WJE 'SBOL %FMPSNJFS BOE +BNJF .BD - %PVHBMM BOE "LXFTBTOF SFTJEFOUT "M - bert Frank Jocko Junior; Trevor Jacob Jocko, +PSEBO-B[PSF 4FUI-B[PSF #SJBO .POUHPNFSZ &MWJT5IPNQTPO BOE Jack Thompson. Police say the group was also involved in the trafficking of marijuana and firearms, al- though no firearms were seized during the investigation and only one drug charge was MBJE+BNJF.BD%PVHBMM PG4PVUI(MFO - garry, faces a marijuana trafficking charge in connection with the investigation. The investigation, carried out by the Corn- XBMM$PNCJOFE'PSDFT4QFDJBM&OGPSDFNFOU 6OJUo$POUSBCBOE5PCBDDP*OJUJBUJWFIFBE -
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