CFN – Youth retention is a huge issue in Cornwall Ontario, and while it’s easy to make it an election issue there’s very little any candidate can do to change the course and direction of what’s happening here in our fair city. Today I was talking with a young manContinue Reading

CFN – Organic Council of Ontario (OCO) board member Tom Manley called for continued diploma education programs, organic dairy research, and rural waste water management research at Alfred Ontario in Eastern Ontario.   Mr. Manley, owner of Homestead Organics in Eastern Ontario, is also the President of the Alfred CollegeContinue Reading

CORNWALL Ontario – In Shakespearean tales things usually start with a storm and end with sunshine.   Weather can be a predictor of a good story. Today’s story is one of hate and willful ignorance.  While South Stormont Deputy Mayor seems to be targeting it at CFN and myself theContinue Reading

CFN – Apparently this is Fraud Prevention Month according to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre. It would appear that in celebration of that someone has come up with a particularly appealing fraud during tax season. Just today I received an email supposedly from the Canada Revenue Agency telling me that theyContinue Reading

CORNWALL Ontario – Nearby Prescott Russell MPP Grant Crack rode shotgun with a few ministers of the Wynne Government as they brought a few bags of money to Cornwall to help with our failing infrastructure and flooding issues. In particular  the reconstruction of sewers on Eleventh, Grand and Miron, and redirectionContinue Reading

CORNWALL Ontario – Is Premier Kathleen Wynne playing hide the Canoli with Education dollars?  The part time Agricultural Minister saw the shut down of two Farming programs as the University of Guelph shut down The Kemptville Agricultural College and Francophone Alfred Campus. While there is some partisan points being scoredContinue Reading

CORNWALL Ontario –  City Hall here in Cornwall just issued a release stating that Trillium Distributing Cornwall Inc. is going to halt for a month while ongoing talks continue. Frankly that’s frightening.    The Mayor and Council have still refused why Economic Development knew about the project starting in FebruaryContinue Reading

Ontario Provincial Police News Portal [STORMONT DUNDAS and GLENGARRY] Investigation Completed – Fatal Collision 2014-03-11 (South Glengarry) – SD&G OPP officers assisted by SD&G Crime Unit members have completed their investigation that involved a pedestrian (20yr old male from Valleyfield, QC) and a Via passenger train. The death was non-suspicious inContinue Reading

CORNWALL Ontario – SD&G OPP officers are currently at the scene of a train (Via) and pedestrian collision near 5TH Line Road, South Glengarry Township. The investigation has revealed that a male was struck by an eastbound via passenger train at approximately 4:00pm just west the Ontario/Quebec border. The investigation is ongoingContinue Reading