MAY 5, 2020 – The Conservatives have a knack these days in setting themselves up to fail in the next election. Step #1: Insult the thousands of young voters and many adults who applied for the $2000 emergency funding from the government. For Scheer to imply that somehow college kidsContinue Reading
APRIL 20, 2020 – It’s boggling that an entity that is supposed to serve public health is boycotting this newspaper and refusing to release info that supposedly is meant to save and protect lives. That’s exactly what Dr. Paul Roumeliotis is doing. While many can understand that people don’t likeContinue Reading
After numerous and historical issues with the Eastern Ontario Health Unit while serving as Public Health Officer, we the undersigned as that during this COVID 19 Pandemic the Province of Ontario takes immediate action after the incident involving the Food Basics store on Brookdale Avenue. The public’s safety has toContinue Reading
APRIL 16, 2020 – As our economy teeters we’re learning more about this historic Pandemic. 2 meters apart? 4? We know that Dr. Theresa Tam and government officials have failed. Even though Dr. Tam led a pandemic guideline in 2006 she certainly hasn’t heeded her own advice. Thousands of CanadiansContinue Reading
Today is Vimy Ridge Day, a day to remember the sacrifices made by Canadians and Canada in World War One. For most Canadians it is just another day, many would have a hard time telling you what it was about and I daresay few know the horrific number of youngContinue Reading
Cornwall City Council is live streaming Tuesday afternoon. In the council chamber during the live stream are 12 people at a time as photos from the live stream show. CFN has learned that at least one complaint was filed with the Cornwall Police Service, but there has been no responseContinue Reading
There will be a time to hold the many accountable for the utter disaster we are facing. Today is not that time. Some of you reading this most likely not be here when that time comes. We are facing a lock down of 4-6 months, and most likely will seeContinue Reading
What a wild week. So much illness. So much death. We will survive, but the World will never be the same, much as it changed after 9/11. And it’s just beginning. We will see a huge financial disaster, one of epic size that we haven’t seen in about 100 years.Continue Reading
The problem with being corrupt and or incompetent is that it creates a culture, such as exists in the Cornwall Police Service. From the politicization of the force, to hiding truth from the public, enforcing some laws on some, and not on others, and not holding officers accountable like whatContinue Reading
Covid 19, Coronavirus, Sars2, whatever we’re calling this devastating illness that may kill as many as 6% of us, especially those of us over 50, overweight, with high blood pressure and other health issues is now the World’s main focus. We’ve seen some major gaffes on the part of theContinue Reading
Dear Editor, From shortly after midnight, and into the early hours of March 6, 2020, the Diamond Princess evacuees hope to leave the Cornwall Nav Centre quarantine facility and take back their lives. And if we’ve dodged a bullet, it’s chiefly because nobody was infected to start with, and itContinue Reading
I am a residential school survivor and this reconciliation thing was a failure from the beginning. Why-because none of those highly paid federal civil servants-including the Native ones-had the common sense to ask us what we thought would work and how. Not once did any of these people come toContinue Reading
-UPDATE #1- PROTEST ACTIVITY IN ONTARIO 10 Individuals Arrested and Charged (SMITHS FALLS, ON) – On February 24, 2020, shortly after 8:00 a.m., the OPP notified demonstrators near Tyendinaga that an injunction regarding barriers to the rail line would be enforced. Demonstrators were encouraged to leave the site and advised thatContinue Reading
A CFN viewer sent in photos from this morning of the first buses arriving at the NAVCAN facility in Cornwall Ontario. Details are tight right now and we will update as more information becomes available. You can reach CFN at info@cornwallfreenews.com From our CFN viewer onsite: No trespassing signs everywhere.Continue Reading
You have to feel for the Canadian passengers waiting to arrive at CFB Trenton. It’s not been released if they are still onboard the Diamond Princess or are waiting in transit? According to new flight info they are now leaving at 3:10AM JST or 13:10 Cornwall time. We will updateContinue Reading
What a hot mess. At root is the law of the land is being trampled on. IF a society doesn’t have rule of law respected then our laws are not really worth anything. We have court injunctions not being respected. We have police services refusing to enforce court orders. WeContinue Reading
What utter insanity filled with lies and misinformation. This writer feels for all the workers who are at NAV wondering what the heck is going to happen. Some have shared they have been told that they won’t be forced to come into work, but wouldn’t get paid. We’re waiting toContinue Reading
EDITORIAL: They say you get the government you deserve and that has played out in spades sadly here in Cornwall. While MP Eric Duncan and Mayor Bernadette Clement were jigging it up at Mamma Mia Saturday night the Federal government issued a release that Princess Diamond was going to dumpContinue Reading