CFN – What a busy week. Congratulations first off to YAC. City Council decided to give the group nearly $1,000 cash per member for this year. That gives hope for the arts community as TAG has nearly 200 members. Could a big cheque be on the way toContinue Reading
One day at work I was assisting the doctor and read something out to him from a chart. He said to me that he thought I needed glasses. I didn’t know why he said that; I could read perfectly. He said it was because I was holding the paper rightContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – There may be something that artists in Cornwall Ontario can learn from Firefighters. The charade that has been this year’s budget committee has given lip service to cutting taxes. With half of council having signed a pledge to do so it seems the only things cutContinue Reading
CFN – Here in Cornwall Bernadette Clement announced that she will be attempting to be the candidate for MP in the 2015 election. There’s been a lot of chatter, but one question that keeps coming up is whether an Independent candidate could win and whether more should run? As someContinue Reading
CFN – I own a small business. Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne just raised minimum wage which essentially is a big fat tax grab. It’s already been seen in studies that Minimum Wage kills jobs. It also kills the opportunity for people to learn skills on the job becauseContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – It’s not easy at the top. Cornwall Community Police Chief granted an interview to the lowly Todd Lihou at the Seaway News. Todd gets lots of police news; perhaps because one of his confreres son works for the CCPS; perhaps because Todd himself tried to beContinue Reading
Dear Editor, It was suggested at the Budget Committee session that TAG was not a stable organization or that there were questions about its future?. TAG Cornwall has been around over thirty years, over twenty in the same location. While it has endured criticism, as all organizations have at oneContinue Reading
CFN – Fascinating. Looking at the search warrants laid against now former OPPA President Karl Walsh an alleged potential money trail leads to distant lands where banking is a bit friendlier than here in Canada. Theft, Criminal Breach of Trust, Fraud, Laundering the Proceeds of Crime, Fraudulent Concealment areContinue Reading
The federal government deserves credit for unveiling its plans for regeneration of Canada’s long-shrinking navy. Seven years have passed, inexplicably and expensively in terms of ultimate cost, since the prime minister announced that eight Arctic off-shore patrol ships with ice-breaking capacity would be built, the first to be delivered inContinue Reading
It is hard to believe that I am typing my 41st. column for Cornwall Free News. The first one came out in August of 2012. After the second one, I was wondering what exactly I would write about next. Somehow things just kept crossing my desk. Watch your hearing aidsContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – The Seaway News editor Todd Lihou was all goo goo over praise given to the paper along with The Freeholder and Cornwall Newswatch. He doesn’t get why they get that praise. During the budget process, of which Ms Clement is the chair, the city has been givenContinue Reading
CFN – Claude McIntosh & Andre Rivette led the charge against Art funding at the Budget Committee meeting Monday. Groups had ten minutes only to sing for their supper with some follow up questions with Bernadette Clement chairing. For disclosure purposes I am on the board of our ArtContinue Reading
CFN – Time can make things surreal. The last few weeks have been a whirlwind. My beloved Rottie, Melly, turned 14 in January after having cancer surgery to remove a fast growing mass. Fourteen is ancient for Rotties. It really is. She’s had an amazing life andContinue Reading
CFN – Sexual Education for Ontario students has been a hot button topic recently in the media. Ontario Premier, Kathleen Wynne, who is a former Education Minister and is openly gay, has been getting and giving back the rhetoric. Our world in 2015 is a much different place thanContinue Reading
CFN – The Meals on Wheels program, a service provided through the Outreach Program at the Glen Stor Dun Lodge, is a program available to anyone in the community who needs some support for their nutritional needs. I contacted Andree-Anne Morin, Meals on Wheels Coordinator of the program. She sentContinue Reading
Dear Editor: With respect to the city budget and the huge financial problem that we are facing, we must stay focused on admitting that we (everyone that works for the city) have a problem and we need help. Empirical data shows that the disproportionate rate of growth in our protectiveContinue Reading
The Emperor Has No Clothes In reviewing the papers, hearing the gossip and assessing on my own thoughts it has become painfully obvious that a city, our city, has become part and parcel to an entrapment within the elements of our budgeting processes and that intimidation’s, blackballing’s, entitlements haveContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – So are things improving when it comes to bullying in the Cornwall area? Another Pink Shirt day passed. It was the usual blah blah rah rah. Monday night about 20 or so of our firefighters showed up at City Council. Some might consider that a formContinue Reading