Munich Takes the Initiative Canada, and North America as a whole, have always lagged behind the Europeans regarding energy efficiency. Perhaps it’s because we’ve had it too cheap for too long. As we’ve never had to pay European prices for oil, gas and electricity, we don’t appreciate the true valueContinue Reading
We’re going to do a poll and find out who you think is Cornwall Ontario’s Person of the Year for 2009. Contest will end December 31, 2009 at Midnight! Email in your suggestions and why to info@cornwallfreenews.com – We’ll be adding candidates to the poll as they come in.Continue Reading
Tick Tock, Tick Tock, Christmas is almost here. If you haven’t finished your holiday shopping yet what better place in Cornwall to shop than at The Cornwall Square? Gift Cards….always the perfect gift! Let that special someone choose from the finest selection of fashions, home decor, electronics, services &Continue Reading
THIS STORY we wrote was picked up by the Bourque Newswatch, one of Canada’s biggest news portals on the web. It doesn’t happen very often and we’re proud to have our site exposed to the world. So hello to all of you new readers of The Cornwall Free NewsContinue Reading
Canadians Must Speak UP! The time has come to legalize marijuana, tax it, and create a few hundred thousand jobs. Marc Emery is currently waiting to see if we will let the US extradite him, to face a possible life sentence for selling seeds on the internet. 44% of CanadiansContinue Reading
15-20 Centimeters predicted for Wednesday! That could be you Thursday morning trying to shovel out your vehicle! Call Syljack Snow Removal today at 613.931.3366 as it’s never too late to sign up for a worry free season of snow removal. Ask Ryan to tell you about the Syljack difference andContinue Reading
So I was sitting having lunch with Joe Gunn yesterday. Joe is of course not a Liberal by any means or definition. We have these occasional meetings and usually end up discussing politics and making “two bit” bets. Since the Cornwall News has evolved I’ve become more interestedContinue Reading
If you love to write this group is for you if you’re in the Cornwall area. From novices to the more experienced there’s nothing like being in a room full of creative people to get you going in the right direction. Here is a blurb from Lorna Foreman whom youContinue Reading
The Year in Review meeting is a popular meeting that is expected to attract hundreds of business people, including special guests from outside of the City. The meeting will be held on Friday, December 18, 2008 at 7:00 am, at Aultsville Theatre at St. Lawrence College. The highlight of theContinue Reading
I was going to write this story last night, before the game, but decided not to. I couldn’t imagine this team losing after the emotion of the evening which saw almost every living Montreal Canadien’s legend on the ice including many that I’d worked with in the past. AsContinue Reading
What do Harper, McGuinty & Obama Have in Common? Hypocrisy 101 We are misled and lied to each and every day by the leaders of governments around the world. I think they all take a course called Hypocrisy 101 as a precondition to running for office. Close to home theContinue Reading
Gotta love the net for finding news and bits. Keith “Ciaran” Duffy returns to Coronation street to heat up the screen with Kym Marsh (Michelle Connor) Check out the photo gallery as Simon Gregson (Steve McDonald celebrates his 20th year on the show. “This week it’s exactly 20 years sinceContinue Reading
By Markus Noé: After 40 years of dedicated service at the Cornwall General Hospital, Denis Legros partially retired this week. An Orthopedic Technician, Legros got his start at the hospital as an orderly while in his mid teens. He was noticed by staff while taking care of his father whoContinue Reading
Stacy Landriault and her partner Alain Leblanc have opened up one heck of a Pet Store at 805 Sydney here in Cornwall Ontario. It’s a smaller version of big box pet stores and features a full line of pet food as well as a grooming facility, birds, fish, reptiles, lizards,Continue Reading
Valleyfield, December 4, 2009 – As part of surveillance operations targeting illegal contraband tobacco smuggling, investigators of the Central St. Lawrence Valley Detachment – Valleyfield Office, in partnership with the Sûreté du Québec, conducted two raids in the Sainte-Martine and Saint-Anicet area this week. These raids resulted in seizures valued atContinue Reading
Being outshot 23-37 doesn’t win you a whole lot of hockey games. Not drawing penalties isn’t a winning formula either. Hall Gill & Paul Mara in the same D corps…..um,erm…..with Ryan O’Byrne isn’t reminiscent of Pointu, Bird, and Serge. It’s not even reminiscent of Jacques Laperierre. The goodContinue Reading
Oderous to the Extreme! I just read some news about a local pharmacy, Medical Arts, losing a nursing home contract to an outside competitor. Something about how this went down makes me hold my nose. The reason given to change providers was that a very successful 50 year old establishedContinue Reading
David Nesseth of the Standard Free Holder is reporting ” “Katenies Janet Davis, who is representing her daughter Fallan Davis in a Canadian Human Rights Tribunal against the Canada Border Services Agency, was detained at the Cornwall Port of Entry en route to the Tribunal this morning. Today’s session ofContinue Reading