Your Cornwall Free News Photo of the Day from Photographer Calvin Hanson – May 22, 2012
CFN – Cornwall Ontario Photographer Calvin Hanson snapped this shot of a Canadian Coast Guard ship for our Cornwall Free News Photo of the Day! If you wish to submit your photo or video email us at info@cornwallfreenews.com - You don’t have to be from the area to submit!
Cornwall Ontario Scotiabank’s bilingual customer contact centre Thriving – Designated Choice Platinum !
CFN -CCEOC Inc. today announced their Contact Centre Employer of Choice Platinum level 2012 designation for Scotiabank Customer Contact Centres inCalgary, Cornwall, Toronto and Halifax. “We are extremely proud to be recognized as an employer of choice across all our Centres in Canada,” said David Dobrosky, Senior Vice President of Customer Contact Centres, Scotiabank. “Our people are our [...]
Letter to the Editor – Gerry Flaherty of Cornwall Ontario on Waterfront Development – May 21, 2012
Dear Sir, . Any condo or commercial building on the parking lot east of Civic Complex/Aquatic Centre would ruin the view from the former Si Miller arena property, and lessen it’s market value. The City is trying to sell this site today. . The arena site rises up as it rolls northward to First St. E. [...]
JD Whenever Show Dwight Dugas & Jimmy Brunet Reach for Internet Radio Comedy Glory – UNCENSORED PROFANITY ALERT – hd video interview
CFN – Part Howard Stern, Part Trailer Park Boys. Nope. It’s Dwight Dugas and Jimmy Brunet of JDWhenever show. It’s a glorification of Uncensored Online Radio right from Cornwall Ontario. There’s a long history of toilet humour in comedy, and some of it’s fun. It’s interesting watching Dwight and Jimmy develop as comic talent [...]
Canada: A Democratic Dictatorship? Editorial by Corneliu Kirjan – Free-Thinking Citizen
CFN – “… the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism – ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.” [...]
Police Author Mulls Over Options as Retirement Looms; Broadcaster, Author Thom Racine HD VIDEO Interview
CFN – Sgt Thom Racine of the Cornwall Police department has had a long and storied career. He’s nearing retirement age and has many irons in the fire. He’s a regular on a local radio station covering sports, as well as a sports columnist in newspaper, but his passion is history; especially local history [...]
Ask Captain Dan Baz – Our Resident Pilot Answers Flight Questions. When & how do planes descend?
CFN - Pilot Dan Baz is answering your flying questions here on the Cornwall Free News. If you have a question about flying you can email Captain Dan or post below. Question Hello Captain. I am not a pilot, but I find aviation fascinating. I have been reading your weekly column with interest. My question is; how [...]
Your Cornwall Free News Photo of the Day from Cory Marsolais – Lamoureux Park in Cornwall Ontario
CFN – Here are your Cornwall Free News Photos of the day from Cornwall’s own Cory ! He brings us some shots of the clock tower and sign at Lamoureux Park in beautiful downtown Cornwall Ontario. To check out more of his work you can click HERE. If you wish to share your [...]
MPP Grant Crack at Glass Ribbon Cutting at The Glass Blowing Place & Chillax Café in Alexandria by Reg Coffey
CFN – The Glass Blowing Place & Chillax Café had its grand opening Saturday, 19 May and Liberal MPP (Glengarry–Prescott–Russell) Grant Crack was there to cut the ribbon, glass ribbon that is. Here you can see the process that the glass blowers went through to get this glass ribbon. In the front of the glass [...]
Spirit Matters by Shirley Barr – Beavergate and the Visualization of Goals – May 20, 2012
CFN – It’s been really nice to witness first hand the power of collective action bringing forward an issue affecting the common good. I am referring to the recent series of events that led to “Beavergate,” as it now affectionately called. This tongue-in-cheek reference to a situation that changed the course of history in the [...]
View From the Hill by Keith Beardsley – Revised Appointment Requirments – May 20, 2012
CFN -Was it really shocking to learn that Heritage minister James Moore has revised the candidate requirements for future appointments under his department to include a stipulation that they develop and maintain and effective relationship with him and his staff? Actually what was shocking was that someone put that requirement in writing, but at least [...]
Earth Matters by Jacqueline Milner : Spring is Planting Season! Mulch, Prune, & Grow!
CFN – This gardening season, don’t forget your trees. With the gardening season underway, the Urban Forest Stewardship Network (UFSN) is calling on residents in communities across Ontario to help trees in their yards and neighbourhoods. Our trees often times exist in stressful conditions. Drought, air pollution, salt spray, competition with overhead utilities and root [...]
Optimist Club Bike Rodeo – Cornwall Ontario Civic Complex – May 26th 9AM- Noon
CFN – The Optimist Club of Cornwall will hold its annual bike rodeo at the Cornwall Civic Complex east parking lot on May 26 from 9 a.m. until noon. There will be a course for young cyclists and skateboarders and a free safety inspection for bicycles. Three bikes courtesy of Bicycle World will be given [...]
Tobacco & Gun Nabbed by CRTF in Cornwall Ontario Region – May 19, 2012
CFN – On May 15th, 2012, while conducting land and marine patrols along the St. Lawrence River, Cornwall Regional Task Force (CRTF) members observed two males onboard a boat near Grassy Island. As CRTF marine operators approached the vessel to investigate, the individuals began to throw garbage bags overboard before fleeing towards Akwesasne, Quebec. CRTF [...]
Letter to the Editor – James Borer of South Stormont Calls Out Tammy Hart – May 19, 2012
Question to Tammy Hart You recently issued a public letter denouncing bilingualism and the Provincial Liberal and Federal Conservative governments. Is that letter from you as a citizen or as an elected official? For the record. Your vote on bilingualism is a matter of public record within South Stormont. In the same way that you decry [...]
Political Times by Mike Roache – F-35 Costs Higher & Higher – May 19, 2012
CFN- Here is today’s installment of Political Times by Mike Roache! To read more Political Times Cartoons CLICK HERE! About Mr. Roache: Mike Roache was born in Halifax and began cartooning for a school newspaper while in junior high,often putting the paper together by himself. Over the years some of his work has appeared in [...]
Your Cornwall Free News Photo of the Day – Black Swallowtail Butterfly on Lilacs from Calvin Hanson
CFN – This stunning shot of a black swallowtail butterfly perched on lilacs is from Photographer Calvin Hanson of Cornwall Ontario! To submit your Cornwall Free News photo or video of the Day email us at info@cornwallfreenews.com - You don’t have to live in Cornwall to submit either as we love to share your photos [...]
Does this Nude Image of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper Offend You?
CFN- They say art is in the eye of the beholder. Maggie Sutherland’s painting of our PM is on display at the Kingston Arts Council Art show and is titled: Emperor Haute Couture. You can buy this baby for a cool $5,000. Word was John Baird was first in line to hang this [...]