It’s always interesting to see spin emanate from City Hall. It’s rarely graceful. Bob Peters and Kevin Lajoie have teamed to essentially “Brand” Cornwall. It’s been an odd failure of an exercise and some of my fellow journalists have questioned why the City is essentially trying toContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario — It’s been a bumpy beginning to the campaign for Cornwall City Councilor Bernadette Clement. She’s been part of a council this term that has attacked family ice rinks at Christmas and made National news again for getting jiggy with worm and lemonde selling kids. Her ridingContinue Reading
If money talks Stephen Harper will have another majority government. Of course when you make the rules it’s expected that you get good results. Right now Mr. Harper set the rules that they benefit himself and his party and it just might work. Justin Trudeau, if an electionContinue Reading
Cornwall Mayor Leslie O’Shaugnessy finally came out of hiding and spoke with the CBC regarding Wormgate. He blames Social Media and at the end suggested misinformation. Oddly enough he spoke with CBC instead of local media. The mayor has refused to grant an interview to CFN since hisContinue Reading
The Cadieux family was shocked to read a story written by Bill Kingston of Cornwall Newswatch who turns out to be their neighbor! Mr. Kingston owns the charming home across from the street which caused some neighbors to ask if Mr. Kingston was the party that complained to City HallContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – One of Cornwall Ontario’s most successful lawyers, Andre Bourgon of Bourgon Law, has offered his assistance to Kristopher & Clayton Cadieux after the city served the family with a threat of fines of $240 per day if the boys continued to sell worms from their 2ndContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – As Robert Cadieux explains it, he was shocked to come home from taking the kids to La Ronde in Montreal to find a notice from the City of Cornwall threatening him with fines of $240 per day. The infraction? His kids selling worms that they pluckContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – A mist of burning pig fat and beer farts wafted across Water Street as I returned across our new mighty bridge from the US of A. Ribfest was humming. There were a lot of cars, but I didn’t see a lot of people? It was bewildering.Continue Reading
The one consistent when I’ve entertained offers to purchase CFN these past three years has been the request that I remain in some capacity with the paper. The negotiations that have commenced this week are no different in that aspect. The one big difference was that Cornwall beContinue Reading
I’m not big on veneers. Politicians live by them. I’d rather be liked, or disliked, for whom I am than who I want people to see me as. There’s been a certain irony to watch the hate and stupidity roll here in Cornwall of late. We have theContinue Reading
YAC (Your Arts Council) announced today that it was moving away from having an Executive Director and cutting ties with Bruce Davis. Davis had been with YAC since it’s political inception with Community Futures under Francois Desormeaux. YAC had stated at the budget hearings that it needed cash from theContinue Reading
Something my lovely ex wife complained about Cornwall was a lack of inclusion for we outsiders. I’ve lived here 12 years now and still am an outsider. I speak with some that have lived here over 25 years and they feel the same. Our first year my wifey triedContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – The Art Gallery of Cornwall has overcome many obstacles in 2015. Board changes, a punitive City Council cutting its funding to ZERO, but the 33 year old public art gallery has shown that art and artists are a resilient bunch. Tired of the petty infighting withinContinue Reading
Oh Canada! Tomorrow is July 1st. Sadly you won’t see CFN participating in our local event that is about to be rained out (bad karma thanks to Guy) as our MP has hijacked Canada Festivities in our city. Canada Day, above all days, should be inclusive and community building.Continue Reading
The Cornwall River Kings have kicked off their first Season Ticket drive for the upcoming season after Council decreed that they would only get 30% of advertising revenue from the Civic Complex. Second season owner Steve Moreau cited his own excitement after seeing fan response since he took over theContinue Reading
Well one thing is becoming clearer. It really doesn’t appear that Bernadette Clement wants to be a city councilor in Cornwall? She has attempted to run for upper political office or hope to become a judge each election. Last night the local Liberal riding went through the charade of aContinue Reading
Not everyone is good or bad, smart or dumb, or even evil pollywosits…. City Hall has restructured after losing Stephen Alexanders salary due to retirement. The city issued the press release below. It gives CFO Maureen Alexander a stronger grip of how things runs as Norm Levac gets readyContinue Reading
So here were the options that council weighed in after a report from Management at Monday night’s council meeting. That Council approve the following: 1. That Council approve a three year agreement with the Cornwall Colts based on the same contract provisions as the last contract, as contained in thisContinue Reading