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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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CFN –  Wednesday March 14th Cornwall City Councilor David Murphy pulled a bully boy shout up at me at City Council.    The good councilor also said I had something against him or some sort of grudge previously in the Free Holder. In life it’s horrible when people make stuffContinue Reading

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CFN – It was confirmed yesterday that it is in fact the City of Cornwall Ontario this has hired heavy weight lawyer David Sherriff Scott of the firm BLG as reported yesterday.   LINK From Mayor Kilger: Mr. Sheriff-Scott is the City of Cornwall’s new legal Counsel and, as such,Continue Reading

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Good morning CFN, I am writing with a suggestion which should benefit the community as a whole and to give you a positive way of helping the Cornwall community.CAO Paul Fitzpatrick deemed it necessary not to spend out of his exorbitant salary to get a tow out of a ditch,Continue Reading

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CFN – When paramedic Erica Stacey was called to a possible drug overdose on Feb. 23, 2007, little did she know how much her life would change in the coming months and years. . She and her partner arrived to a lengthy country lane in Dundas County covered with aboutContinue Reading

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CFN –   That’s Bob Peters of Economic Development in Cornwall Ontario.    We initiated an investigation on his first round of employment with the city of Cornwall that ended in 1997.   Mr. Peters left to work with/for/ Web Tech; IE Mr. Peter Gault, dad of Joey. His directContinue Reading

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Dear Editor and Fellow Residents of Cornwall, Cornwall city government and admistration are leading the community without a moral compass. For all the talk of modernity and progress, Cornwall’s governance and administration are embarrassing relics of a time when secrecy, backroom deals, and favouritism for family and friends were theContinue Reading

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CFN – The actions of Cornwall Ontario CAO Paul Fitzpatrick seem to be getting stranger and stranger? A reader sent in the following this morning regarding our CAO. It would crush democratic principles if a CAO has more power than council. Indeed it would.     This weekend we discoveredContinue Reading