Thee’s nothing like the crackle of real wood in a chimenea or wood pit. With no real cultural activity in the city other than cover bands and drag nights, weekend fires are a chance for friends and family to enjoy some time together. Some of the best nights I’ve hadContinue Reading
When I ran for mayor of this odd city one of my platform concepts was to create free busing in the city, seven days per week. The idea was to create a three year pilot project and shake down the province and the Feds. From the numbers I’d crunched itContinue Reading
It’s a challenge being a media outlet in 2019. If you do your actual job and tell the truth in news you end up being hated by those that control the wheels of power. The simple truth is bad people who do bad things really hate you if you truthfullyContinue Reading
Over 90 per cent of eligible municipalities have participated in the Ford governments line-by-line budget review. Cornwall’s Cat hating mayor Bernadette Clement admitted recently at the AMO conference that the city was not one of those to take the provincial funded exercise. Why wouldn’t she and the city do so?Continue Reading
The Terry Birch story is becoming a bigger story because of the recent medal award to him and the weak sauce spin the Local Legion has tried to pull to avoid yet another Stolen Valour stain. Clearly this also exposes statements made to other media by his son on hisContinue Reading
This newspaper is generally the only one that will tackle sensitive issues in Cornwall. It’s cost us money, resources, friendships, and even seen myself land in jail on false police charges by a corrupt Police Force that I clearly had not committed. IE, I was charged with making Threatening PhoneContinue Reading
THEFT OF MAIL Cornwall, ON – The Cornwall Police Service is looking to identify the man pictured below in relation to an incident involving the theft of mail. The incident occurred on July 18th, 2019 in the area of Meadowvale Crescent. Anyone with information on this man is asked toContinue Reading
Thanks to some last minute donations, CFN in a limited capacity, is allowing comments until September 30, 2019. We’re hoping to see the public step up and support comments. This newspaper doesn’t get hand outs from the Federal government like certain other media do so it’s up to our communityContinue Reading
By Jamie Gilcig As repeatedly shared, the recipe for insanity is to repeat something that doesn’t work. Just a snippet from last night’s council meeting. Our corrupt and rigged council voted themselves a modest raise, a bit this year to catch up with tax changes, and bit more because ElaineContinue Reading
A CFN viewer was kind enough to email in the following photos of the collision on 9th that sent one officer to hospital. Herb’s Towing was in attendance. Sometime before 2:45 p.m. today, Wednesday 7 Aug 2019, a collision occurred at the intersection of Ninth St E. and McConnell AveContinue Reading
CFN has been getting calls from area contractors complaining of high priced delays because of what they feel is incompetence and abuse at City Hall in Cornwall Ontario. Every week delay is costing me thousands of dollars…It adds up! Anonymous Contractor They’re explaining that these delays trickle down to serviceContinue Reading
Akwesasne has a long history of weed traffic. While many focus on the illegal tobacco smuggling; Marijuana has long been moved through Akwesasne. In fact when this newspaper covered allegations of Fentanyl laced cannabis they were based in Akwesasne. Frightening enough, the EOHU ran to another media squealing that thereContinue Reading
One of the issues that this newspaper has been fighting for has been proper police and emergency service disclosure. While the police don’t give out every call for service; some forces, like in Kingston, give a breakdown. The SD&G OPP do that on occasion, but the Cornwall Police refuse. ThatContinue Reading
Only in Cornwall can the weird get this weird. What we have is a city that historically has not supported the arts. Right now they are paying more to keep a building empty than they gave to keep its former public art gallery open. The city should not be inContinue Reading
SD&G OPP WARN ABOUT CONTINUED MAIL FRAUD (SD&G) On July 19, 2019 Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were made aware of new fraudulent documents being circulated in the region and throughout Ontario. The documents are targeting one individual, their associates and their place of business. The SD&G OPPContinue Reading
We’ve had a lot of feedback since we announced that we would stop allowing viewer comments on CFN stories after July 31, 2019. So after a lot of internal discussion we decided to allow those that want it to stay to put their money where their mouths are. If weContinue Reading
A tragic cliche appears to have played out; one that the public only now seems to be finding out about. A hearing was held in Toronto where Sheryl Fontaine, a soccer coach at Char Lan had her license revoked for allegedly sleeping with and sexual abusing a 14 year oldContinue Reading
TODDLER STRUCK BY MOTOR VEHICLE Cornwall, ON – On July 10th, 2019 at approximately 4:17 pm, the Cornwall Police Service was called to investigate a motor vehicle collision where a vehicle had struck a toddler in the area of Fifth Street and Sydney Street. The vehicle subsequently fled the areaContinue Reading