Looks like Cliff Cornell won’t be moving back to Gabriola. From the Daily News: Deserter leaves Canadian dreams behind. U.S. Army deserter Cliff Cornell won’t return to live in Canada after all. He now has a good job and plans to get married and settle down in his native Mountain Home, Ark., this fall. Gabriola [...]
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CBC reports that Cliff Cornell has been released from prison. I imagine that Cliff is very happy and relieved about that.
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Here’s great news for Cliff Cornell and all his friends on Gabriola. From the Nanaimo News Bulletin: Reduced sentence won for Gabriola war resister. Supporters of a U.S. war resister who sought refuge on Gabriola Island likely played a huge part in getting his sentence reduced, the man’s lawyer says. Cliff Cornell, who lived on [...]
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From the Nanaimo Daily News: Army deserter’s lawyer wants sentence reduced. The lawyer representing jailed U.S. Army deserter Cliff Cornell wants supporters to write his commanding officer to ask for clemency. Cornell, who spent nearly three years working at a Gabriola Island grocery store, was jailed on Tuesday for one year after pleading guilty to [...]
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Lots of Gabriolans wondered what would happen to Cliff Cornell after he left Gabriola to go back to the US. Here’s the latest from the Georgia Straight: U.S. war resister and ex-B.C. resident Cliff Cornell sentenced to one year in prison. An Iraq war resister who lived in B.C. from January 2005 to February 2009 [...]
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Arkansas Online has an update on former Gabriolan Cliff Cornell: Soldier from Arkansas charged with desertion. Fort Stewart commanders have filed a desertion charge against a soldier accused of fleeing to Canada four years ago to avoid the war in Iraq, a spokesman for the Georgia Army post said Thursday. Spc. Cliff Cornell, 29, will [...]
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Dear Nanaimo Bulletin, Who’s doing your fact-checking these days? Your recent article, Gabriola aims to keep Cliff ‘at home’, says: Everywhere on Gabriola Island there are signs of support for U.S. war resister Cliff Cornell, who faces deportation from Canada this week. Everywhere? Really? I live on Gabriola, and I don’t see signs everywhere. There [...]
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From The Province: Deserter from U.S. army gets small reprieve. A Gabriola Island shop clerk facing deportation by Christmas Eve was given a temporary reprieve by Immigration Canada. Clifford Cornell has another month to build his legal defence to stay in Canada. [continue] See also: War Resisters Support Campaign.
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