CORNWALL Ontario – That pretty picture above is actually a slide of cancer cells. For nearly three years CFN has been trying to glean information about Cancer rates in Cornwall Ontario to only be met with roadblocks and a total lack of disclosure and information by the very agenciesContinue Reading
WARRANT Cornwall, ON – Carl Beckstead, 63 of Cornwall was arrested on February 20th, 2015 on the strength of a warrant. It is alleged that the man was in breach of his conditional sentence and a warrant was issued for his arrest. On February 20th, 2015 the man attendedContinue Reading
WORLD PREMIERE SCREENING IN OVER 85 LOCATIONS ACROSS CANADA OF A DOCUMENTARY BY MAZIAR BAHARI, THE REAL-LIFE SUBJECT OF JON STEWART’S FORTHCOMING FILM ROSEWATER The Iranian government tries to stop the members of its largest non-Muslim faith community (the Baha’is) from teaching and studying at university. But they do teachContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – Cutting taxes may be great buzz words to getting elected, but they are a lot harder to implement. What you have in today’s Cornwall are a group of council. There are a few experienced hands on deck like Mayor O’Shaughnessy, Elaine MacDonald, Mark MacDonald, Andre Rivette,Continue Reading
The board of TAG (tagcornwall.ca) are proud to announce a new direction for 2015! “We’ve already seen results from our new board format and have received a lot of positive feedback from area artists” said TAG President Wyatt Walsh. After extensive meetings and discussion the board is focusing on someContinue Reading
CFN – Today I was in a chat with someone. They mentioned an incident in Cornwall and forgot that it was CFN that stepped up and came to the defense of their own business and that of others. It was one of our first ombudsman pieces and an experienceContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – A simple first paragraph of a news story has set off a fire storm of controversy between South Stormont Mayor Jim Bancroft and his council and the Standard Freeholder. “A need to set aside money for reserves to help pay for future projects is driving a 12.2%Continue Reading
FRAUD Cornwall, ON – Laura Primeau, 27 of Cornwall was arrested on February 13th, 2015 on the strength of a warrant. It is alleged that she failed to declare changes in her living arrangements to the Ontario Works Resource Centre between October, 2013 and April, 2014 which resulted inContinue Reading
Any senior attending one of those special dinners at Logan’s Art Gallery is in for a surprise when they leave…a gift of a cup and saucer. Nice gesture on Mike’s part. Heard the food is wonderful also. One day when it was snowing and blowing recently and theContinue Reading
CFN – Progressive Conservative Leadership candidate Patrick Brown fought off snow and brutal cold Saturday and attended a breakfast meeting at the Ramada Inn. It was a surprising large crowd considering the brutal weather conditions, but significant in that the Conservative MP, MPP, and Mayor of Cornwall were not inContinue Reading
ASSAULT, ASSAULT WITH A WEAPON, MISCHIEF, FORCIBLE CONFINEMENT,SEXUAL ASSAULT WITH A WEAPON, SEXUAL ASSAULT, THREATS, OVERCOME RESISTANCE, POSSESSION OF A WEAPON FOR A DANGEROUS PURPOSE Cornwall, ON – A 41-year-old Cornwall man was arrested on February 12th, 2015 and charged with: · Assault · Assault with a weapon · Continue Reading
CFN – Media is a hard biz these days. Even the big guns suffer. Today, on Friday the 13th Sun News Network shuttered down. They flipped the switch to off. I won’t get into the merits of Sun News and it’s fake boobed talking heads or farContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – Temperatures are going to plunge from -10 to -23 tonight in Cornwall with a wind chill of negative 11,000,000 as Winter digs in for the Mid February death grip! It won’t warm up much until Saturday when Mother Nature will take a snow dump on usContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – Monday night two subjects stood out. Now these were distractions from the bigger mess of our budget which preliminary numbers are looking at a tax increase of over 5% which simply is not acceptable, especially considering the bloating of taxes through eight years of Kilger rule.Continue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – Former Team Cornwall President, Kilger Bagman, Liberal politico, former Max Keeping Foundation board member and Long Sault resident Gilles Latour had another round in court which revealed a few more victims including….his mother. CFN spent $4 at the court house today in Cornwall getting a partial listContinue Reading
WARRANT Cornwall, ON – John Seguin, 54 of Cornwall was arrested on February 6th, 2015 on the strength of a warrant. It is alleged that the man was responsible for a theft that occurred in March, 2013 at a local grocery store and a warrant was issued for hisContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – Sheep. Not everyone likes them. They can be a bit like Art. Well actually that would be taking artistic licence as sheep really aren’t like art unless well….we are entering a fuzzy zone of mystical proportions that probably aren’t relative to tonight’s City Council meeting in CornwallContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – Sometimes politicians listen. Councilor Mark M MacDonald sent out an email to Mayor O’Shaughnessy and Council as well as the media. His thoughts echoed a CFN editorial from awhile back where the public also voted in our poll about changing the dangerous changes to 2nd StreetContinue Reading