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CORNWALL – Cornwall Mayor Bernadette Clement has been appointed to the Senate of Canada.
Clement was among three appointments made Tuesday by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
She resigned immediately as the mayor of the City of Cornwall (June 22).
In a statement, Clement says it’s an “incredible honour, which feels both thrilling and wistful.”
The lawyer and executive director of the Roy McMurtry Legal Clinic has served three terms as city councillor and was mayor since 2018.
Even during her municipal political career, she had her eyes set on higher office running twice unsuccessfully against Guy Lauzon to be Member of Parliament for Stormont-Dundas-South Glengarry in 2011 and 2015.
Author of the article: Jordan Haworth
Publishing date: Jun 16, 2021 • 3 hours ago • 3 minute read • A bag of blood is shown at a clinic Thursday, November 29, 2012 in Montreal. Eric Duncan, the first openly gay Conservative MP, laced into the federal health minister Thursday over the Liberals failure to end a ban on gay men donating blood. Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz
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A local MP has been criticizing the federal government for failing to lift the ban on gay men donating their blood.
Eric Duncan, the Conservative Party of Canada MP for Stormont Dundas South Glengarry, told the House of Commons Tuesday the federal government’s election promise in 2015, and 2019, was yet to be kept despite significant political and scientific support.
Author of the article: Todd Hambleton
Publishing date: Jun 16, 2021 • 20 hours ago • 3 minute read • A screen shot of United Way/Centraide of SD&G executive director Juliette Labossiere during Wednesday morning s AGM. Photo on Wednesday, June 16, 2021, in Cornwall, Ont. Todd Hambleton/Cornwall Standard-Freeholder/Postmedia Network Photo by Todd Hambleton /Todd Hambleton/Standard-Freeholder
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A year of tremendous change and upheaval was reflected upon, during the United Way/Centraide of SD&G Annual General Meeting.
And it was a Wednesday morning with lots of change. The Zoom meeting marked the end of board president Clayton Delaney’s service, with Craig Fuller to take over the position for 2021-22.