I am not sure if very many Canadians realize this; but “discrimination by language”, in our country is legal. Yes, you heard it. LEGAL; as in guaranteed by the Charter of Rights. Under Equality Rights 15.(1) Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the rightContinue Reading
CFN – I bet you clicked on this story. I bet you’re reading it right now. You’re looking for the dish and the dirt. You’re looking for blood; for the bone sticking out of the car wreck. The dead body maybe? A foot without a shoe? The news is becomingContinue Reading
CFN – Elliot Rodger somehow slipped through the net. It’s not like he was invisible. He was investigated by police after concern from his family and those in the outside world. He put pleas into his you tube clips. He posted in online forums where he was chastised. Yet somehow,Continue Reading
CFN – Dr. Nat Shah, a prominent family physician, has been given many awards and accolades over the years since he first came to Cornwall in 1960. He has worked tirelessly for our community, at our local hospitals and for many charities. Last year he received the Queen’s GoldenContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – Mayor Bob Kilger has become nearly invisible as he devotes that last gasps of his term in office to secret meetings with the Federal Government and Akwesasne over proposed waterfront divestiture discussions. Over a decade ago such conversations took place, but rightly so Cornwall officials ducked itContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – Bob, Bob, Bob. It’s time to hang it up. I know the buzz is your busy helping the Feds dump the harbor properties on we poor taxpayers of Cornwall. I get it when you sleep more nights away from Cornwall than here that youContinue Reading
CFN – It was recently brought to my attention that a person commenting on the Cornwall Standard Freeholder site is using the moniker “gardengirl13”. I am not sure if this is on purpose or not, I choose to believe the party is innocent until proven guilty, but it deeply offendsContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – I had an interesting chat with two of Cornwall’s finest last night. Mayhem broke out at the Waterfront Committee meeting. CFN and myself were blindsided. For a few years now our high school drop out mayor, Bob Kilger, and some of his friends; I guess becauseContinue Reading
CFN – Value Village is an interesting place. If you can get past the odd smells here and there, and the fact that at least one person has previously owned the goods at which you’re ogling, then hey, it can be quite enjoyable. Considering I very seldom find myselfContinue Reading
CFN – That gentleman on the left is Don McCurdy. He’s the Executive Director over at the Ontario Press Council. My journey of journalism that now is in its sixth year has been an adventure.It really has. This year Don entered “my movie” although he was supposed to enter lastContinue Reading
Hydro One has to be stopped. With the recent announcement that the Ontario Hydro debt retirement charge will be taken off hydro bills in 2016 they seem to be buttering up the Ontario voter and taxpayer. That debt was actually paid off in 2010. Thankfully, in Cornwall we are notContinue Reading
CFN – Everything in my mother’s house matches. The curtains match the furniture, the furniture matches the carpet, the pictures on the wall were carefully chosen, and even the TV stand is elegant. She is now on the market for some new furniture and I’m certain she will agonize overContinue Reading
CFN – Today the world observed a gross act of hypocrisy. One Donald Sterling; owner of the LA Clippers NBA basketball team was banned for life and fined $2.5 million dollars for the leaked tapes allegedly of him being led in a conversation by the tramp he was hangingContinue Reading
CFN – They say there is no fool like an old fool. As I write this there is a very very upset 80 year old man by the name of Donald Sterling. Sterling made his name as a divorce lawyer. He is the longest tenured current NBA owner. HeContinue Reading
Mr. Lauzon, I would like to thank you for doing an outstanding job in representing your riding here in Cornwall. When we were challenged with what we had initially perceived as a terrible infliction, “Chemical Tanks on our Cornwall Waterfront” you stepped right in, investigate and quickly andContinue Reading
CFN – Life is already messy and complicated. Why can’t the simple things be simple, straightforward and easy? I was thinking this while a pharmacist told me my brand new health provider had no idea who I was. She gave them my name, my birthday and my enrollment number andContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – Team Cornwall held its annual AGM. Team Cornwall President Gilles Latour, who doesn’t reside in Cornwall; but in nearby Long Sault in South Stormont led the way in ….what I’m not sure. Other media headlines stating “Dozen’s Attend Team Cornwall AGM” are surely not something to beContinue Reading
CFN – With Social Media becoming so prevalent nowadays many of our perceived realities and perceptions have become increasingly digital. Recently I experienced two very different instances that reminded me of this. First facebook switched my five year personal account to a business one wiping out all my friends (turningContinue Reading