TPS Officer charged Broadcast time: 11:27 Wednesday, November 15, 2017 Corporate Communications 416-808-7100 As part of a Special Investigations Unit investigation, on Wednesday, November 15, 2017, at 7:30 a.m., Constable James Forcillo surrendered to police. He was arrested and charged with: 1) Failing to Comply with Recognizance He is scheduled toContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – Cornwall Lawyer Milena Cardinal may not be a great lawyer, but she once posited that we journalists needed to spend more time in the courts because lawyers, justices, and the system can brutalize lives. She even went on about how police lie on the stand frequently. Continue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – There is a true partnership between media and police services. When there’s an emergency it’s important to reach as many people as possible and that’s where media come in. Whether it be a public alert or a simple police blotter, police forces are expected to professionally conductContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – The Police Board of Cornwall, led by Cornwall City Councilor Andre Rivette, announced that Deputy Chief Danny Aikman has been appointed the title of Designated Chief as of January 1st, 2018 to replace Chief Dan Parkinson on January 1, 2019. It is this writer’s opinion that thisContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – With the current “Red Scare” like atmosphere floating around the World, from the Weinstein allegations, to Kevin Spacey and other bigwigs in all fields, and even going back to Sir John A MacDonald, questions are being asked and emotional responses and allegations to many of those questionsContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – After complaints from multiple countries, including right here in Cornwall in Canada, the Cornwall Community Hospital has decided to discontinue their relationship with Patient Direct as of May 2018. Jolene Soares sent a communication from Hospital President & CEO Jeanette Despatie Friday afternoon confirming the details. WeContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – Oddly enough we media types read our competition, even minor competition, and that’s why it’s utterly astounding to read words quoted from Angela Vinet, the Exec Director of Sexual Assault Support Services in Cornwall. Vinet is hopeful the movement will be a catalyst for greater change, allowingContinue Reading
CORNWALL ONTARIO – It’s amazing how the old adage about doing things the same way expecting different results is ingrained in the failures that are our area chamber of commerces in the area. All three, Cornwall, Akwesasne, and Massena boycott this newspaper even though we have the largest audience inContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – After we did our story about Cornwall Ontario’s bloated police budget; something that has spiraled up sharply with the support of Councilors Elaine MacDonald and Bernadette Clement through the last three terms, this newspaper sent out several emails asking for comment and response. In that story weContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – For those upset about the high price of policing in Cornwall Ontario and the CCPS refusal to give out real and concrete numbers and information it’s been a challenge to process data so that the public can understand how much they’re being gouged. What we know forContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – As many CFN viewers know we’ve been pushing the CCPS to be more accountable to the public, in particular, via the media. With a per capita cost to taxpayers nearly on par with Toronto, and Cornwall’s tax rate already way too high, most residents want to knowContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – With the public screaming about high taxes, outside lawyers vulturing businesses getting MPAC valuations down to the point of impacting city budgets, and talk of a 6% tax hike to help fill empty infrastructure reserves, Council approved huge wage increases for senior management including CAO Maureen Adams.Continue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – So you’re a big star shooting on a film set. The Assistant Director calls on you to come to the set to shoot your first scene of the day. You say that you won’t come out unless they crawl under the blanket with you and give youContinue Reading
Feeling scammed, ripped off, lied to or ignored by Patient Direct aka the Community Network or MIS TV? You’re not alone. By Mary Anne Pankhurst If you’re a local business owner in Ontario “you” are the target market for Patient Direct. In fact the company may be so clever (afterContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – With talks of a 6% tax increase coming, chiefly because of a lack of infrastructure reserves, and plummeting property values, one area of cash to dialog on is our police budget which roughly stands at about $18M per year for a city of about 40,000 people. PuttingContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – Oddly enough the Standard Freeholder was pretty much silent when this writer took our very hypocritical Mayor and two councilors to court over their gross conflict of interest over the utter joke that was the Benson Vanity University project that the mayor and councillors Elaine Macdonald, andContinue Reading
Like all media today CFN faces revenue challenges. We face more of them because of the City Hall led conspiratorial boycott of this newspaper. It’s something that actually has damaged the economy of the entire community. There is at this point no business reason to not advertise hereContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – Some people are friendlier and more considerate than others. Some make good neighbors, and then there seems to be one Natalie B Trottier, a lawyer with Federal Crown Tilton T Donihee, the local law firm that purchased Diane Lahaie’s old practice after she became a judge. WhereContinue Reading