CFN – And then there were nine. Leslie O’Shaughnessy made it official and resigned this afternoon as a councilor for the City of Cornwall. He spoke with CFN stating the following: I find it unfortunate to leave Council, but I’ll have more to say on why in the upcoming months.Continue Reading
From left to right is Me, Allison St.Jean, President of the Stormont Dundas South Glengarry Young Liberals, Del Jones President of the SDSG Federal Riding Association, and David Jones Vice President of Federal Affairs for the SDSG Young Liberals. CFN – Over the last year, the Liberal Party of CanadaContinue Reading
Greetings Mr. Mayor and Council: The Ontario Government has recently been discussing plans to overhaul gambling in the province and at the same time the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Commission have plans to unlock greater funding for health care and education. In a recent interview OLG Chairman Paul Godfrey said OLG would not makeContinue Reading
CFN -I have to admit that Jamie Gilcig had me thinking the Cornwall Free News was closing last week! Then I realized that it was April Fools and maybe, just maybe, we were all being duped! Whether we were tricked or whether the public support changed the administrations mind willContinue Reading
First of all, let me thank the local news papers for caring enough to report about what’s going on at the Cornwall Community Hospital. I got involved in the hospital issue not because I work there, not because there is anything in it for me, I got involved because IContinue Reading
CFN – Finishing 11th in a 10 horse race is never fun; but for Gerry Samson it might be his ticket onto council after Leslie O’Shaughnessy announced his intention to resign from Cornwall Ontario City Council as of April 10th. Gerry on the campaign trail I reached Mr. Samson inContinue Reading
CFN – Cornwall Ontario suffered a great loss today as Councilor Leslie O’Shaughnessy resigned from council a midst the strife and undertow of countless in camera meetings. His voice was one of the strongest and loudest against the corruption the is rife at council and resulted in bloated amounts of moneyContinue Reading
CFN – Hi! Welcome to our new site design. It’s been in the works for quite awhile and isn’t quite finished. It’s been an interesting weekend. An act of faith. Trying to take over 5,000 stories, 7,000 images, and far too many words and take them fromContinue Reading
CFN – I’ve decided to become Issue-Centric politically. After three years in this industry I’ve lost any desire to belong to a political party. Traditionally I’ve been Liberal, but frankly the Federal scene and local scene have burned that out of me. The utter hypocrisy and evil of peopleContinue Reading
CFN – Such an odd meeting of Cornwall City Council? There was a near total disconnect with the voters, a total disconnect with why the tax increase was needed, and this oddly marvelous, but disengenous embracing of the fine art of debate around the council table. CornwallContinue Reading
CFN – It was an unusual day this week as Wyatt Walsh of Walsh Pressure Cleaning called and joined our family of sponsors here on The Cornwall Free News. Mr. Walsh had heard about some of our sponsors being pressured to leave. Like many media outlets our sponsors occasionallyContinue Reading
CFN – Pee Wee, Pilsbury, Mr. Potato Head were some of the epitaphs used for the first time yesterday about CAO Paul Fitzpatrick as emails and calls flooded CFN regarding the Sick leave of $1.4 Million Dollar man Paul Fitzpatrick. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7i1I89FCJQ Never kick a dog when it’s down? Not byContinue Reading
CFN – The end of a dark and stormy era may be dawning in Cornwall Ontario as embattled CAO Paul Fitzpatrick has taken a Sick Leave from his position from the City of Cornwall as of 3 PM EST today. Erica Stacey, Mary Anne Pilon, Diane Shay, Robert Menagh andContinue Reading
CFN – After being placed near last in the CFIB’s Economies in Boom report and now ranking 167th in MoneySense’s Top Places in Canada to live, you have to ask yourself: “Has Cornwall Hit Rock Bottom?” As a young aspiring politician I find it hard to stand behind some ofContinue Reading
CFN – Cornwall sure has been “branding:” itself of late. Moneysense Magazine comes out with a Best City to Live in Canada each year and for this year Cornwall Ontario dropped from 90th in the 190 city ranking to 167. The City also finished 98 out of 100Continue Reading
CFN – As we draw near the two month mark of the Bilingual Nurse Protest of the Cornwall Ontario Community Hospital’s implementation of the French Language Services Act patterns seem to be evolving. One that a core of nurses have issues over not either being able to be hired asContinue Reading
CFN – Cornwall Ontario PLUNGED from 90th to 167th on the Moneysense Magazine annual Top Cities to Live in Canada list for 2012. This in addition to it’s abysmal ranking in the CFIB Communities in Boom report on Small Business. The good thing about being in the toilet onContinue Reading
I graduated in 1994 with my Registered Nurse Diploma with Honors from St.Lawrence College in Corwall,ON. During my 3 years of schooling I trained in various hospitals including the former General(public & english) & Hotel Dieu(Catholic & english)Hospitals. . Soon after my graduation my husband(an RN too) & I relocated to the USA becauseContinue Reading