CFN – OPG celebrated winning Gold Certification in it’s first LEED award for the OPG Visitor Centre in Cornwall Ontario! Ontario Power Generation (OPG) is awarded its first LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold Certification by the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) for the St. Lawrence Power DevelopmentContinue Reading
CFN – Submitted Article – Interested in Birding, Fishing, Farming or Forests? The St. Lawrence River Institute is hosting a Community Day, May 16th, at St. Lawrence College Aultsville Hall, Cornwall, Ontario, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Admission is FREE and the public and students are welcome and encouragedContinue Reading
Submitted Media Release…April 4, 2013. Some 65 species have been waiting and waiting for habitat protection – on average for 19 years Sixty-five species slated to receive mandatory habitat protection this summer under Ontario’s Endangered Species Act, 2007 (ESA) may be out of luck if the government proceeds with sweepingContinue Reading
AMBE March Break Camp Activities BMO Module Summary: (Bank of Montreal Financial Group) Grades KG-3 and 4- 8, Days 1 and 3 BMO Smart Steps for Parents Today’s kids are exposed to more gear, more gadgets, and more high-pressure advertising than ever before. How can today?s parents best prepare their kids toContinue Reading
CFN – What do Goldilocks, Star Trek and CSI Miami have to do with man’s timeless question: “Is there life out there in the universe?” Well apart from the obvious – at least where Star Trek is concerned – let’s just say that about 30 of us discovered new waysContinue Reading
CFN – Felix Baumgartner broke a bunch of records today as he successfully jumped from 127,000 + feet and landed near Roswell New Mexico! Millions of people across the world watched on www.Redbullstratos.com and on you tube as it was the loudest news story of the day! Mr. Baumgartner brokeContinue Reading
CFN – I get emails all the time. Frankly I don’t get a chance to read them all. I get over 500 per day without exaggeration. Most are easy to skim into the bin, but I love my flyers for Electronic stuff! Today Staples sent a blast about theirContinue Reading
CFN – The Cornwall Free News has reached another humble milestone as we shot our 1,000 th video. In just over three years we’ve been busy. To date we’ve used two camera’s; Mini Me, our first JVC Everio which now resides in the JVC Hall of Fame Museum inContinue Reading
We have all fallen in to an abyss but we just haven’t realized it yet. The change that has taken place in our world in the last 10 years is greater than the previous 100 years. The changes that one generation is experiencing, took 6 or 7 generations to experienceContinue Reading
CFN – Does this image offend you? It’s so odd here in North America, the birth place of mass produced Pornography, that the hint of the image of a nipple can cause outrage. I’m sure Oreo’s ad agency is loving it. It’s an awesome ad and millionsContinue Reading
The Optics of Corruption and Incompetence or Cornwall City Council in Action – Meeting 4 PM at City Hall – April 16, 2012 CORNWALL ONTARIO – LACK OF TRANSPARENCY KNOWN AND RECOGNIZED ACROSS CANADA – LTE Corneliu Kirjan South Stormont Resident’s Claim to Fame- CANADA’S LARGEST TITANIC MOVIE MEMORABILIA COLLECTIONContinue Reading
CFN – Apple is in the news for issuing a dividend for the first time since the 90’s and announcing a share buy back program as it’s sitting on a cash egg of over $90 BILLION dollars! The company is also set according to media reports pull in as muchContinue Reading
CFN – Cornwall Ontario fascinates me. It’s part Twin Peaks; part Peyton Place, and full bore Cornwall. Since founding the Cornwall Free News nearly three years ago the person I have dealt with the most has been Mr. Bob “Vienna Sausage” Peters with the Economic destruction Development department. Mr.Continue Reading
CFN – Friday our office started getting emails about Joey Bellmore. By this morning we’d had nearly 60 emails from people all over the world seeking our assistance in finding out what happened to the 30 year old St. Lawrence College Business grad. It seems Mr. Bellmore has been buildingContinue Reading
CFN – There’s a trend in BIG CORPORATE media that is seeing a lot of talented people being replaced by young and less experienced voices. Cost reduction or just reactions to divergence in media? Some would see a decentralization and less focus on local is the culprit. Create oneContinue Reading
CFN – A small victory for Canadians over the big Internet providers in Canada. The CRTC did not allow them to charge for carriage. IE, UBB Usage Based Billing is dead….for now. We still pay far too much for our internet. I just got my Cogeco bill. Here inContinue Reading
CFN – Sadly Steve Jobs passed away after a long fight with Cancer. The co-founder of Apple and visionary who brought the company back from brink to become the innovation leader and monster it’s become was 56. Apple’s website said it best. To me I’ll forever remember theirContinue Reading
Cornwall ON – Some amazing stuff is sprouting in the Cornwall Ontario area and Kristine Pickens from the Cornwall Game Makers sent in the following. “Video games have an interesting history. From the time of their invention in the 1940’s there was a lot of controversy over the assumedContinue Reading