CFN – Mixed communications coming in regarding some bed closures at the Winchester District Memorial Hospital. PC MPP Jim McDonell sent out the following press release: Winchester District Memorial Hospital announced the permanent closure of 14 beds earlier today, which equates to more than 22% of their total capacity. MPPContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – Writing about suicide is never a happy topic, nor is it easy. It’s hard to get the words you mean to say across, without them sounding either offensive or just down right insensitive. The only thing worse then writing about suicide, is writing about teenagers committing suicide.Continue Reading
CFN – A neutral arbitrator issued a new contract for our PSWs working out of Red Cross. It is an improvement over the previous tentative agreement and proves that when we stand together, we can put pressure on employers and government for change” said Sharleen Stewart, President of SEIU Healthcare,Continue Reading
CFN – I recently read the Forbes compilation of the 30 best under 30 in science and health, and in all honesty, the profiles blew my mind. (LINK). I think anyone who reads that article will feel the same way, what these prodigies are doing in their own respective fieldsContinue Reading
CFN – We said good-bye to 2013 a couple of days ago. For me, it was a bittersweet good-bye; sad because I have always been emotional with them, and happy because 2013 was a year of endings and new beginnings. And that type of year is filled with sadness, hardship,Continue Reading
Olivia and Liam are the most popular names for girls and boys born in Ontario for the second year in a row. Olivia has been the favourite name for girls since 2008, followed by the same second, third and fourth place names from last year — Emma, Sophia and Ava.Continue Reading
CFN – The Legislative Assembly of Ontario passed Bill 36 Local Food Act, 2013 on November 5, 2013. The purposes of the Act are to foster successful and resilient local food economies and systems in Ontario, help increase awareness of local food in Ontario and develop new markets for localContinue Reading
CFN – Specialist physicians should be paid by the hospitals where they carry out their procedures, rather than by provincial insurance plans as they are now, according to a report released today by the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Paying Hospital-Based Doctors: Fee for Whose Service?” authors Ake Blomqvist andContinue Reading
CFN – A new expose by the people at Mercy for Animals Canada is featured on the website eggmcmisery.ca. The video includes scenes of abuse of hens and chicks while describing the process at a factory farm as uncovered by a hidden camera. At root is the practice of keeping layingContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – Vasectomy is being promoted as one way to help control world overpopulation and hunger. On the 18th, Drs. Doug Stein from Florida and Nick Demediuk from Australia will be performing vasectomies live on a video stream to highlight this project. In addition, over 173 doctors around theContinue Reading
CFN – One of the most sensational courtroom dramas ended today as Dr. Sheridan Diaz was declared NOT GUILTY by Judge Bruce McPhee in courtroom number 6 earlier this morning in Cornwall Ontario. Dr. Diaz and her long time spouse had come to Canada after leaving Texas with Dr. DiazContinue Reading
CFN – For generations chocolate lovers in Eastern Canada would venture to Smiths Falls Ontario in an odyssey to indulge their cravings for Chocolate. Hershey thought it better to move its plant from Canada to Mexico; right near a cattle yard, decimating the workforce of the town of about 9,000Continue Reading
CFN – Friends of the Earth Canada has filed a notice of objection to Health Canada’s decision under the Pest Control Products Act to renew conditional registration of a bee-toxic pesticide, clothianidin, despite lack of due diligence by the applicant companies. Health Canada’s agency dealing with pesticides is recommending renewingContinue Reading
CFN – For Mark A MacDonald the the Concerned Citizens Coalition the Fat Lady hasn’t sang her last song yet when it comes to the Cornwall General Hospital site which the sale of sits under a cloud of mystery. The sold sign is not on the building. It was onContinue Reading
CFN – I was given a book by a friend not too long ago which I am just getting around to reading, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan. So much interesting information…”Our ingenuity in feeding ourselves is prodigious, but at various points our technologiesContinue Reading
CFN – A determined group of protesters filled petition sheets in front of City Hall in Cornwall Ontario. After being rebuffed once, Liz Leduc and her team have starting a petition that can be signed across Cornwall and the area. I shot some video of the group trying toContinue Reading
CFN – Liz Leduc was peddling her bike all over Cornwall this weekend getting people to sign the petition to ask the City of Cornwall to stop adding fluoride to its drinking water. Fluoride Free Cornwall will be gathering signatures for a petition to end water fluoridation outside of cityContinue Reading
The Concerned Citizens Coalition has called a meeting to talk and try and get an update on the Sale of the Cornwall General Hospital. . Monday September 16, 2013 at the RCAFA Wing 424 at 6:00 pm. . The meeting will be open to the public. The real estate agentsContinue Reading