Cornwall Ontario – What is wrong with this city that I live in? Cornwall City Council just agreed to take over $4M from taxpayers and send it over to some of the largest and richest companies operating in Canada; many of whom are not even Canadian. $4.5M tax breakContinue Reading
CFN – It’s funny reading the latest on the Senate scandal, Stephen Harper’s possible political demise, and Justin Trudeau’s ascent. It’s almost like it’s a bad script. What we do know. Whatever success Mr. Harper has is because of planning and scripting. It’s boring. It’s not pretty. It’s brutal andContinue Reading
Yes, it’s that time of year again, the time when the debate is renewed among professing Christians whether or not to have anything to do with Halloween. Opinions range from seeing Halloween as harmless to seeing it as an opportunity to reach the lost with the Gospel of the LordContinue Reading
CFN – That fount of political wisdom, Celine Dion, has apparently come out in favour of the new PQ Charter which has been roundly condemned world wide including Amnesty International. I remember when long time family friend Benny Kushner would show up at our home bringing albums of theContinue Reading
I pity young men. Take for instance a young friend of mine. He’s very sweet, about 23 and not a bad looking kid. The other day, he gave me a disturbing insight about girls. Apparently – and I can’t confirm this, as I am neither single nor young – guysContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – Alyssa Blais has a funny way of running the Agape Centre and food bank in Cornwall Ontario. The hyper ambitious newlywed has been under fire lately. Many long time volunteers and staff have left in disgust pointing fingers at Ms Blais making claims of cronyism andContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – Why is the City of Cornwall subsidizing Smart Centres to the tune of over $4M? I know it’s incremental. I know that it will raise the value of the property and increase the tax base, but Smart Centres is not a dumb company. It is gettingContinue Reading
Bank of Canada audit finds Economists writing skills need improvement. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/bank-of-canadas-economists-write-poorly-need-help-audit-finds/article14950702/ Ontario open gover(n)ment spelling mistake. http://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/2013/10/21/kathleen_wynnes_open_government_launch_marred_by_spelling_mistake.html Quebec has Canada’s highest high school dropout rate. (They finish in Ontario’s equivalent of grade 11) http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2012/02/20/19402596.html 2009 -2012 dropout rate for Ontario is not much better. http://www4.hrsdc.gc.ca/.3ndic.1t.4r@-eng.jsp?iid=32 If you look at the graph comparing theContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – I know. It’s still nearly two weeks from Halloween, but with Christmas and the Holiday season revving up in the background it’s time to talk about a subject that’s very very important to most of our communities. Shopping locally. Why? Why not? What it really means? AndContinue Reading
CFN – I am not an advocate for being a total idiot, but sometimes it may not be such a bad thing. Remember the movie “Big?” For the uninitiated, this movie is about a 12-year-old kid named Josh, who makes a wish on a carnival game to be big (becauseContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – Utter mayhem and insanity as Cornwall City Council allowed councilor Elaine MacDonald to debate and vote in issues related to the Agape Food Bank of which she’s a sitting member of the board. And to add irony to the pot the councilor was seeking funds from theContinue Reading
CFN – One of the biggest obstacles in growing our humble independent media outlet is the bizarre boycott of CFN by government agencies. While some could argue that the City of Cornwall has some sort of reason (they don’t really and were disrespecting CFN before the War started) what reasonContinue Reading
CFN – I am convinced that some people can’t be happy unless they’re miserable. You know the type: always complaining, quick to tell you their latest misfortune. Boy, they’re fun people to be around. I worked with a woman like this. On the way out of the building one summerContinue Reading
In 1994, I graduated from St.Lawrence College with Distinction as a Registered Nurse. Over the years, I have worked locally & in the USA specializing in four areas; Critical Care, Operating Room, Post Anesthetic Care Room & Hemo-Dialysis units. Recently, I resigned from the Cornwall Community Hospital due toContinue Reading
CFN – Change can be very frightening! Changing an online newspaper with a huge database can be even more frightening! Thanks to our Advertisers & Subscribers incredible support we have rolled out our new look and feel. I hope everyone likes it and of course feedback is always welcome. AsContinue Reading
A friend of mine, a nurse who also teaches college and has two teenage children has recently received a speeding citation on a clear, straight, multi-lane stretch of highway 401 near Cobourg. She was charged with going 130 km/h in a 100 km/h zone. Her charge was not reduced inContinue Reading
Are you of a “certain age?” Are you female? If you answered yes to either of these questions, perhaps you’ve experienced the following. One day at my old job, an older woman who worked in my building approached me in the mail room and said: “Can I ask you aContinue Reading
CFN – I know I’ll bleed Bleu, blanc, et rouges forever, but I was a huge California Golden Seals fan as a kid. I still have a replica jersey hiding away somewhere… This week as George Parros spends time regaining his faculties after face planting the ice causing a hugeContinue Reading