Cornwall Ontario – Some might call this column “Sour Grapes”, but it really isn’t. It’s more of a question? Rogers is a large and wonderful company that offers many great services. It also has a huge footprint in hockey; something I know a bit about. My history with the sportContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – After years of labour peace it seems giving managers double digit raises while freezing hiring and wages for union staff leads to Strike votes. CUPE issued the following: Cornwall municipal workers give their union overwhelming strike mandate CORNWALL, ON – Municipal workers in Cornwall have given their unionContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – One of most crucial gigs on council is being on the police board. It’s meaty. It’s one of the biggest budget items. Yet it’s been used in a corrupt and abusive manner (last term under Kilger and Pat Finucan) and as a rubber stamp for police budgetContinue Reading
Toronto Ontario – It is too early to judge how profoundly Justin Trudeau and his government have been undermined by the debacle of the visit to India, which cannot be laid off by scapegoating Indian and Canadian officials. Coming on the heels of the “peoplekind” fiasco, it has created aContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – For Cornwall, Kingston, and now Ottawa Paralegal James Moak it’s been an interesting fight to see unauthorized practice by unlicensed people appearing before the Landlord & Tenant board of Ontario and other courts. He was recently featured in the LAW TIMES twice (HERE & HERE) The weeklyContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – The budget process has been so weird this year in Cornwall that the CBC gave a dingle to councilor Mark MacDonald who was the most diplomatic I’ve ever heard him be while hammering at the fact that it’s time to look at the big ticket items ratherContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – When three out of four candidates ask for another week to work out bugs and make sure that as many party members as possible can vote due to irregularities do you get to complain about issues when you were the only candidate to not want a delay? Continue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – Today has been a certain bit of delicious irony. The Progressive Conservative Leadership circus may have ended. If it has Doug Ford has surprised many and won the race on the first ballot, but not without at least one recount. One would think that after the HilaryContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – What an ugly budget procedure this year has been, and it’s not over yet. What we’re starting to see clearly is that the adage that you get the government you deserve always comes home to roost. A motion to cap an increase @ 4% because ofContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – It’s funny how words can become corrupt. Phrases start out well meaning, but then we humans start to interact and corrupt things. According to some, Communism is the greatest form of government, but as anyone that ever read or watched Animal Farm can attest, it can beContinue Reading
HAMILTON, ON: The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF.ca) is pleased with the ruling of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in the case of Derek and Frances Baars v. Children’s Aid Society of Hamilton (CAS) . The decision, released Tuesday March 6, declares that CAS violated the Baars’ Charter freedoms of conscience, religion and expression byContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – As council argues over whether to cut pizza and pop for committee meetings CFN has discovered that the City rents space above Gordon’s Jewellers on 2nd and Pitt so drivers can use the loo or take a lunch break. Of course if they break there where wouldContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – After living here in the River City for fourteen years I still get mystified at the tragic load of cow poop that some perpetrate on the public? Sadly because of a culture of exclusion and bullying, I call it the “Ed Lumley” factor, it leads to theContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – As it’s become clear that the political assassination of Patrick Brown was from within his own party it’s raised a number of questions for voters who clearly have had enough of the Wynne Liberals and their abuse of the public purse. From Hydro, to Sex Ed curriculum,Continue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – What do you do when you mess up a case in Cornwall Ontario? Run it in a language that the victims, and most media need a translator for! Even though transcripts from the botched handling the Kristine Cadieux death by Felix Laframboise show that Mr. Laframboise agreedContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario -Robert Cadieux has taken some of the pain at the tragic loss of his wife Kristine, and his injuries, and worked hard with a group of supporters to create a group called V.O.I.C.E. as many feel that the Crown and Justice system has let down their families andContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – Former Cornwall City Councilor and political lobbyist Charles “Chuck” Charlebois, better known as Mr. Cornwall passed He worked passionately to support Le Village and the Waterfront before illness slowed him down. CFN would like to offer our condolences to the Charlebois family on their loss. Continue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – With the demise of yet another hockey management team there are rumblings and even a piece written by that mincing lifeguard, Hugo Rodrigues. Cornwall Ontario is a hockey town. It just has a city government that for whatever reason refuses to allow business to be business. TheContinue Reading