BREACH Cornwall, ON – Stephanie Kirker, 29 and William Poitras, 59 both of Cornwall ware arrested on April 7th, 2015 and charged with breaching their undertakings for associating with each other and failing to keep the peace. Kirker was also charged with breaching a probation order for the sameContinue Reading
Dear Editor, I am a concerned Canadian citizen and believe it is my civic duty to protect the rights of children in our country and our community from segregation. The act of separating English and French children on different buses is promoting segregation and division across both linguistic groups. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/acadian-society-says-bilingual-buses-promote-assimilation-1.3019136 . Tensions are rising inContinue Reading
HOMICIDE UPDATE Cornwall, ON- On Monday, April 6th, 2015, shortly after 9:00 am, the Cornwall Community Police Service was called to a residence on Carleton Street and located a 52-year-old woman with no vital signs. Investigation revealed that the Jacqueline Martin had been stabbed and as a result her 28-year-oldContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – The City of Cornwall’s signature event has been grounded for 2015. There will be no 21st Lift Off this year. Consistent to their unprofessional nature Lift Off organizers sent out a press invite and didn’t show up giving selected media snippets of info. The Standard Freeholder gotContinue Reading
Fire at 15 Edward Street claims life of 79-year-old woman Officials have completed their investigation into a fire at an apartment unit at 15 Edward Street on Sunday, April 5th. The fire claimed the life of a 79-year-old woman. Firefighters extinguished the fire and found the victim upon the initialContinue Reading
CFN – Today Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is on trial. In reality it is former Journalist and Senator Mike Duffy that’s on the docket and facing a judge, but ultimately Canadians will be keenly listening for glimpses of the man behind the curtain. What’s scariest to this writerContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – Cornwall Community Police issued a statement revolving around the grisly murder on Carleton Street in the East End early Monday. A 28 year old man is alleged to have killed his mother in the family home. MURDER Cornwall, ON – The Criminal Investigation Division of theContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – Sgt. Maxwell of the CCPS confirmed to CFN that a suspicious death is being investigated after a death in the East End of Cornwall. The CID unit and Coroner have been called to a Carleton residence near Walton. No name is being released pending notificationContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – Dr. Thomas Baitz has been practicing medicine in Cornwall for 40 years. He arrived in our city in 1975 after training at the famed Mayo Clinic and studying in Edmonton after arriving from his native Hungary. If you are treated via dialysis in Cornwall you probably oweContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – Fire struck a Seniors building in the le Village section of Cornwall Sunday night. Fire Department Responds to An Apartment Fire The Event At 6:20 pm, on Sunday April 5, a call was received by the 911 operator advising of an Apartment on fire at 15 EdwardContinue Reading
Cornwall & Area Pop Event – CAPE will be held on Saturday, April 18th in Cornwall at the Benson Centre. CAPE will have many of the features of the larger shows held in cities such as Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto and expects to attract a couple thousand people through theContinue Reading
The $99 per month YOUR AD HERE special on CFN will be for all of 2015! That’s right. Space is limited to the three Top of the Site rotating slots which host 24 banners in total. Banners are 300×250 pixels in size, can be animated gifs, and of course areContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – CFN is putting together a list of the top, or perhaps bottom, list of people in our amazing city. These are the self serving nasties that hold our community back and discredit us again, and again, but for mystic (or not so mystic) reasons are still allowedContinue Reading
Queen’s Park is at it again in its support of sexual diversity. It is Bill 77 this time. Bill 77 – “a bill that would ban therapy to ‘convert” gay and transgender children and youth….”, and even deny “OHIP coverage of conversion or therapy for adults intended to change theirContinue Reading
CFN – Tonight marks the beginning of Passover; the Holy Jewish Holiday whereby Jews across the world eat matzoh and get constipated if they don’t eat enough prunes and fruit. Here in Cornwall the Jewish community is nearly extinct. The synagogue is now a private home; but there is hope asContinue Reading
CFN – What a busy week. Congratulations first off to YAC. City Council decided to give the group nearly $1,000 cash per member for this year. That gives hope for the arts community as TAG has nearly 200 members. Could a big cheque be on the way toContinue Reading
One day at work I was assisting the doctor and read something out to him from a chart. He said to me that he thought I needed glasses. I didn’t know why he said that; I could read perfectly. He said it was because I was holding the paper rightContinue Reading
ASSAULT, ROBBERY, MISCHIEF Cornwall, ON – A 35-year-old Cornwall man was arrested on April 1st, 2015 and charged with robbery, mischief and three counts of assault. It is alleged that during arguments with his 48-year-old girlfriend on March 21st and 30th, 2015 the man pushed, slapped, punched and caused damageContinue Reading