Cornwall Ontario – It’s sad to see cat owners and kitties being used as pawns in a game that simply is about cash. At the root is the OSPCA wanting the cat control business in Cornwall. Maybe they deserve it, but there are legitimate questions that need to be answeredContinue Reading
Running for office is a major life decision. You are putting yourself out into the public eye to serve your community. There are many challenges. Whether you’re a rookie or experienced, the two sessions of this seminar have something to add to your arsenal of tools and help you notContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – There are many definitions of Elder Abuse and Neglect. Although most are similar, the Yukon has one of the most comprehensive definition: the deliberate mistreatment of an adult that (a) causes the adult physical, mental or emotional harm, or (b) causes financial damage or loss to theContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – Running for office isn’t the only way to help a community. For many it’s a vain ego thing. I just turned down a new provincial party looking for a local candidate. Looking around the table here in Council there really are only 1 or 2 that trulyContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – Like the fat kid chasing after the ice cream truck to be first in line conflicted Cornwall City David Murphy registered to run for Mayor on the first day possible. It was no surprise to many including the #metoo women he hit on while teaching at St.Continue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – I sat through my second council meeting in nearly three years. (More about that in another column) but one thing was still the same. Bernadette “Flipper” Clement still bloviated as though she was in full campaign mode. Not sure what she’s campaigning for now, but it certainlyContinue Reading
Cornwall, Ontario – Denis Carr is the city’s longest running council member in the city of Cornwall. Carr has been passionate about Cornwall, Ontario, and while he may in the upcoming years consider slowing down with his political career, he will always work to improve the city. He believes that thereContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – City Councilor Mark A MacDonald who has come under fire for pointing out the obvious, that which has inflamed the fiscal burden on the city’s budget might be where Cornwall has to look to find solutions, has come out with an intriguing and positive proposal which he’sContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – It can be bewildering sitting in a council meeting in Cornwall. Monday night was first one in about three years, but more about that in a later editorial. Monday night we were treated to a presentation of information from Transport Canada that any journalist or city stafferContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – David Murphy has aspirations to run for Mayor of Cornwall in 2018. In the meanwhile he voted to support the vanity project of his long time employer, Gerry Benson. The farcical waste of cash and Liberal slush funds going into the CIC are shameful pork of theContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – It’s been an exciting week so far! I finally returned to Cornwall after being away for over a year, just in time for an important city council meet. Last night City council kicked off the meeting with a presentation on Waterfront Lands given by Rachel Perkins.Continue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – CFN can confirm that CAG, the Community Action Group, supposedly dedicated to fighting rising taxes in Cornwall has dissolved. Group leader Gerry Benson spoke with CFN after appearing at council to beg for more cash for his vanity Liberal slush fund excuse to pump cash into theContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – One area lawyer refers to Mayor Leslie O’Shaugnessy as a hobo. They get irate that the man won’t wear a tie to council and dresses shabby even to going as far as once saying he was going to drop some coins onto the mayor’s desk to helpContinue Reading
“Choose Cornwall”. I did. In fact, both my wife and I did. We came here to attend St. Lawrence College, (SLC) not knowing much about the area.You can look at tourism sites, review sites and city websites but you never know what kind of culture a place has until you’veContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – For those of you in the Cornwall are who are fed up with your taxes skyrocketing without value here are the five councilors who clearly are not remotely trying to keep costs in check and are not worthy of voting for come the Fall. Claude McIntosh, ElaineContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – An incensed Cornwall Ontario City Councilor, Mark A MacDonald, sent an angry email from his vacation in Barbados over a budget committee vote for a tax hike of nearly 5% for 2018 to council and the media this afternoon! [bs-quote quote=”Hello everyone: With respect, if youContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – When I ran for Mayor of Cornwall in 2014 I was really clear about our number one issue, taxes. I had a clear plan that would cut taxes by 5%. Now knowing the lay of the land; my false police charges, still not held accountable for byContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – The Benson Charity Golf Classic has folded. Another cultural event dying in an area already nearly void of culture. Since 2002 it was a great tool to advance the Benson name, consolidate political power, and an excuse for some golfing buddies to have a great time andContinue Reading