DOMESTIC BREACHES                  Cornwall, ON- A 25 year-old Cornwall man was arrested on the 15th of February, 2012. He was bound by a recognizance with the relevant condition of not to associate directly or indirectly with his 21 year-old ex-girlfriend.  It is alleged that on the 15th of Febraury, 2012 he was foundContinue Reading

CFN –   Ring Ring.   It’s my phone.  One second please. Valued CFN Viewer Did you see what Todd Bennett wrote about you on facebook? Moi Let me check.  No, I can’t see;  he’s unfriended me. Valued CFN Viewer He’s calling you out for your Corruption poll. Moi That’sContinue Reading

CFN – With the February 18th membership deadline for the New Democratic Party’s spring leadership vote drawing near, Professor Charles Taylor, one of Canada’s preeminent academics and a long-time champion of the NDP in Quebec, released an open letter supporting NDP Deputy Leader Thomas Mulcair in the party’s leadership race.Continue Reading

DOMESTIC SEXUAL ASSULT               Cornwall, ON- A 40 year-old Cornwall man was arrested on the 14th of February, 2012. It is alleged that on the 22nd of January, 2012 he attended his 34 year-old ex-girlfriends residence and sexually assaulted her. The victim was not injured. Police were contacted and an investigation followed.Continue Reading

CFN – According to http://www.thegrower.com  genetically modified specimens of Hamlin orange trees may be planted in Florida field trials once required permits have been obtained.  The modified specimens have been engineered to produce a natural insecticide that wards off Asian citrus psyllids.Plant pathologists K. Cox and H. Aldwinkle from Cornell UniversityContinue Reading

CFN – On January 21st, 2012, Bradley COOKE (age 39) from Akwesasne, Ontario, was charged under the Excise Act, 2001 after being stopped at Cornwall’s Port of Entry with nineteen (19) cases of contraband cigarettes.  COOKE’s 2011 Ford F-250 pickup truck was seized. On January 26th, 2012, while conducting surveillance in the South Glengarry,Continue Reading

CFN – I finally finished transcribing the 1851 Charlottenburgh township census records. On the final pages of the census record Mr A Kennedy, the census taker, had the following to say about the educational state of the residents. ”…… – be the fault where it may Education is not progressingContinue Reading

CFN – In a column written this past weekend for the Toronto Sun, author and television host Ezra Levant advanced two questionable assertions. The column follows comments made in the House of Commons by Conservative MP Larry Miller comparing the 1990s Liberal government’s intentions behind establishing a long gun registry to Adolf Hitler’s racist andContinue Reading

CFN – The Honourable Sinclair Stevens, Leader of the Progressive Canadian Party (PC Party) and Party President, the Rev. Dorian Baxter PC Party candidate in the March 19th Toronto-Danforth, called following the passing of NDP Leader Jack Layton, stressed today that the by-election is in a very real sense aContinue Reading