Cornwall Spine Care Plus+ Cornwall’s #1 Clinic for Chiropractic, Acupuncture, Massage Therapy and Physical Rehabilitation. Cornwall SC+ is a team of healthcare professionals working under one roof with one shared vision – exceptional patient care. The healthcare team is dedicated to the non-surgical conservative management of all joint, muscle, tendon,Continue Reading
CFN – Hospitals are supposed to be places of safety and comfort. Where we take our loved ones in times of fear to be healed. To take ourselves to be healed. Of joy when most often a new one is brought into this world to join our family orContinue Reading
CFN – Local resident and medical student Sarah Robichaud will be the second recipient of the City of Cornwall’s Medical Scholarship. Cornwall City Council approved the selection of Ms. Robichaud at its regular Council meeting tonight. Ms. Robichaud will receive the academic scholarship of $25,000 per academic year, worth inContinue Reading
CFN – Innovative reforms are needed to prepare for the coming surge in demand for long-term care services from aging babyboomers, according to a report released today by the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Long-Term Care for the Elderly: Challenges and Policy Options,” authors Ake Blomqvist and Colin Busby recommend methodsContinue Reading
CFN – With November being Movember to raise awareness for Prostate Cancer Mayor Bryan McGillis of South Stormont Ontario has joined the cause and will be Flashing his Stache shaving his long term lip hair to raise funds! We caught up with him while taking a sneak peek at theContinue Reading
CFN – Medication errors. They’re serious, can be injurious, life threatening, and happen anywhere: in hospital, in longterm care or the privacy of our own homes. And they’re precisely why Medical Arts Pharmacy continues to invest in technology. For as pharmacist Harry Haramis says: “Safety is the lightning rod forContinue Reading
CFN – In this world many things are printed or said as statements of fact. Not all are true. Not all that are not true are false. It can get confusing which is why one of the roles of we media is help ask certain questions and investigate certainContinue Reading
CFN – It is that time of year again, the period in which men from around the world get a little fuzzier for a good cause. I speak of course of the month long fund-raising campaign first started in Australia referred to as Movember, a port-manteau of the colloquial termContinue Reading
CFN – After a series of weekend open houses, the city’s newest fitness club is officially open for business. Purple belt instructor Stephen Lefebvre has several medals attesting to his expertise. Lefebvre, who trained with Steven Burgess and Marcus Soares, previously taught Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ) to military personnel atContinue Reading
Are we going to tell our children to stand up and do the right thing, or to watch in silence? How do we have a hope against bullying if so many of us are complicit bystanders? CFN – There’s lots of talk about bullying these days. While it appears thereContinue Reading
It’s never too late to check your prostate! Help us throw the book at prostate cancer! Book your arrest! Book your annual check-up! The Canadian Cancer Society & Supply Chain Management hosts the annual Jail-N-Bail event: Thursday, October 18, 2012 Cornwall Square 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Dollars raised at theContinue Reading
CFN – In January of 2007, my wife Christine Lowe and I posted a video on Youtube of Christine having an epileptic seizure. We’d searched Youtube with the words “epilepsy”, “seizure”, “seize”, and so on, and found little of any real worth. Kids faking them for a laugh, flickering cartoonsContinue Reading
In recent weeks, the local Cornwall media has carried several news items that relate to cancer. In 1995, Health Canada released a study that indicated that Cornwall had a higher rate of cancer that industrial cities such as Hamilton, Windsor and Sarnia. A story very recently came to public attentionContinue Reading
CFN – This morning some members of the Language Fairness for All group used a homemade train as their latest vehicle to promote awareness of what they see as increasingly discriminatory hiring policies at area places of employment. Amid cries that members of the Anglophone majority are being forced to:Continue Reading
The financial crisis the Community Care Access Centre is currently experiencing was brought to the public’s attention in June of this year. The Champlain branch of the CCAC, responsible for providing health care and home care services to the Cornwall area, are doing their part to remedy the CCAC’s $1.47Continue Reading
CFN-Earlier today members of the local Language Fairness for All – LFA group were joined by members of the Ottawa area Canadians for Language Fairness – CLF umbrella group in front of Cornwall’s taxpayer-funded French-only medical clinic. In late May the groups converged in Chesterville, catching James Moore, Minister ofContinue Reading
CFN – For the last twenty years, the quality of health care in Canada has been deteriorating. There is a chronic shortage of doctors, emergency rooms are overflowing, waiting times for surgeries are getting longer, the lack of hospital beads is chronic and costs are constantly increasing. The debate onContinue Reading
CFN – It’s said that you can fool some of the people some of the time, but not on a good TV night… Provincial 3rd Place Finisher, Cornwall Ontario City Councilor, and a bunch of other titled Elaine MacDonald led the charge by an esteemed panel to talk aboutContinue Reading