Randy Hillier, the PC MPP for Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox & Addington is one of my favorite politicians in Ontario. It’s not that I agree with all of his positions or support his party, but when you talk with him you can feel a passion and integrity that is sorely lacking in soContinue Reading
The City of Cornwall is about to write a cheque for over $2 Million dollars to buy back a large chunk of its Industrial Park as Loblaws is bailing on the 121 Acre parcel in the city’s industrial park. Was it a game of chicken with its Quebec Unions forContinue Reading
Doug & Rachelle Raymond live in a lovely avenue in Cornwall Ontario. Doug, a retired accountant, has a card game with some of the family friends on Friday nights. Raymond home on the right The group of Seniors generally don’t play past 10PM and listen to such raunchy artistsContinue Reading
25 JULY, 2016. RE: TICKET # 586535 DO NOT PARK ON THE GRASS OR THE BOGEY MAN WILL GET YOU! Dear Sir/Madam, I’m a Senior turning 80 this September and getting around o.k. thanks to having a Disabled Persons Permit enabling me to park close to venues,Continue Reading
Canadian Muslim Community Bringing Nationwide Campaign Titled#MobileMuslims to Cornwall, ON Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama`at travels across Canada in a mobile exhibition to present the true teachings of Islam The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama`at Canada has launched a nationwide campaign called #MobileMuslims, in which a mobile exhibition will be driven coast-to-coast to spread theContinue Reading
Even in the week that he is nominated by the Republican party for the presidency of the United States, intelligent people fail in droves to understand what Donald Trump has accomplished. It was disappointing to read the editorial in this newspaper (the National Post) on Tuesday that “a Trump presidencyContinue Reading
If you know someone in the Public Service or someone who has recently retired from the government- chances are you know someone who hasn’t been paid or who isn’t receiving the pay and benefits that they are supposed to be getting. We all have friends in that situation. Stop andContinue Reading
81,000+ workers have missed paycheques, been underpaid, denied health benefits, and even had child support payments disappear – all thanks to the Government of Canada’s political and technological fumbling as it launched an untried, unmanageable pay system called PHOENIX. Unlike its mythical namesake, this PHOENIX immediately crashed and burned inContinue Reading
Recently a list of 25 Things Cornwall, ON People Know Too Well – The bitter truth of it all went locally viral. 2. The ski hill is made from industrial waste. Cornwall has a ski hill in the middle of town, right behind Lowe’s (formerly Walmart) which in and of itself isContinue Reading
I live in a very very strange town. Because of a City Hall led boycott many agencies refuse to send press releases or invites to CFN even though their works require the most amount of exposure to be successful. I watched from our public art gallery, which is inContinue Reading
“It is a first. I have never seen such a blatant defacement of our sacred symbol and believe that if other Canadians could see it, they’d be as outraged as I am,” says Bill Maxwell, who is secretary of the Legion’s Poppy and Remembrance Committee. A young man lies inContinue Reading
A pattern is emerging in the conduct of the Trudeau government. It straddles fairly stylishly between gestures to the trendy and fashionable cutting leftward edge of its support without grossly offending the solid centre of the country that provides the majority for any Canadian federal government. That centre was fairlyContinue Reading
More cronyism in Cornwall Ontario as CFN has learned that former TC Media Seaway News editor Todd Lihou has been given a two year contract with Heart of the City, an arms length agency in Cornwall, funded with tax dollars, which employs City Councilor Denis Carr as it’s manager/leader. WeContinue Reading
Alas Cornwall Ontario has some very strange ideas about how to govern itself. Two years ago it was sending heavy machinery to destroy a families ice rink at Christmas. Last year it was attacking kids selling worms and lemonade from their home. Now in what has to be oneContinue Reading
Like a walk of shame, the city released news of its official signing of documents for the turn over of Harbor lands to the City and Akwesasne from Transport Canada Thursday afternoon. Many in Cornwall and Akwesasne are against the deal which was shrouded in secrecy and with noContinue Reading
Following a decision by the National Association of Pharmacy Regulatory Authorities’ (NAPRA), Ontario is making naloxone available in pharmacies across the province without a prescription and at no cost to eligible Ontarians to help reduce opioid overdoses across the province. On June 24, 2016, NAPRA reclassified naloxone as a ScheduleContinue Reading
That Hugo Rodrigues is one funny cat. When I issued a release stating my intention to run for mayor again in the next election, and would do all possible to rescind the bizarre Harbor Deal in Cornwall Ontario that would give the good people of Akwesasne a half interestContinue Reading
What kind of a group of officials do we have in South Stormont council and working in office making decisions? We need to sweep the lot of them out next election! They work on double standards and cost homeowners like me too much money because of their decisions. Why areContinue Reading