CFN is reviewing and rating local candidates this election instead of endorsing. Our next candidates for review are Alyssa Blais, Rony Major (Macarone) Earle Depass & Rick Currier During her service as director of the Agape Ms Blais has seen services cut while costs go up. If you can’t runContinue Reading
At a recent presentation of Cornwall mayoral candidates, one candidate (O’Shaughnessy) advised the audience that administration had not followed council’s directives. The incumbent mayor replied that administration people were of high character . . . and he said that at a time when the public is reading news media reportsContinue Reading
CFN is reviewing and rating local candidates this election instead of endorsing. Our next candidates for review are for Davey Bedard & Donna Primeau I’m not sure what Davey Bedard stands for or why he’s really running, but he did give one of the most entertaining speeches at the Civic ComplexContinue Reading
Hope doesn’t always spring eternal. This was especially true (for me) in late summer, after the 100th anniversary of WW1 slipped back into the past, and August was on the wane. By that time, it was fully two months after the defacement of the poppy (by a gang that grewContinue Reading
CFN is reviewing and rating local candidates this election instead of endorsing. Our next candidates for review are for Gary Samler & Jason Swerdfeger Mr. Samler is taking his second whack at getting elected. He’s come a long way in the last four years. His public speaking is much better. HisContinue Reading
CFN is reviewing and rating local candidates this election instead of endorsing. Our next candidates for review are for Heather Megill & Mark Pendergast. Ms Megill is a gifted speaker. She did quite well at all of the candidate events she spoke at, as few as those were. She howeverContinue Reading
CFN – How do you end up being Mayor of a Municipality and its Insurance broker and what happens if a claim needs be filed? That’s exactly what happened to South Stormont after a salt shed contaminated water making some residents ill and costing six figures to deal with includingContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – If there was a photo in a text book in a section on media corruption in elections Todd Lihou’s would embossed. The Seaway News Editor has clearly not only showed his personal bias pro and con for candidates in this election in editorial, which is fair game, butContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – Beleaguered former Team Cornwall President Gilles Latour is watching his empire crumble before his eyes. In addition to the police charges already laid for fraud the amount of monies being bandied around have now gone from the $200K area to over $600 as the Mutual FundContinue Reading
CFN – Today was a dark day in Canadian history. A man (or men) killed one of our brave Canadian soldiers. The second this week. Why is this happening? Politics. There are people dying in wars all over the world. In particular the Middle East.Continue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – At the request of the Cornwall Police Service Friends of Vets President Gary Samler announced that their event will be postponed. It had been scheduled today, the 22nd, as a symbolic gesture matching a number of suicide victims from PTSD; but after events in our Nation’s CapitalContinue Reading
CFN – Our next candidates for review are Geoff Stephenson & Mike Proulx. Geoff mostly gets a rating of NA. He hasn’t spoken at any debates and simply hasn’t had enough info about himself shared. It’s a tough situation and hard to review or rate. He did do anContinue Reading
CFN – As myself and Reg Coffey are both running in this election I have decided to simply review & rate candidates this election locally instead of the standard endorsements or endorsenots. Up first today for Cornwall is incumbent Syd Gardiner for Cornwall and Dave “Grumpy” Smith for South Stormont.Continue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – Yes the municipal election in Cornwall is getting dirtier than Todd Lihou’s sandal clad stink feet. The Freeholder’s Greg Peerenboom nailed Mayor Kilger for using city resources. This would not be the first time that Mayor Kilger is using the excuse that he’s a near illiterate highContinue Reading
CFN – Cornwall isn’t ready for change. At least not this election. My core pillar of changing the culture of Cornwall is the most important issue facing our city as it’s how we conduct ourselves. While there’s a surface veneer of “nice” there’s a nasty darkness that probably isContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – In a bizarre act of election machinations the Seaway News has run a story based on an unnamed source regarding the Diane Shay case. A source has confirmed the details are in relation to a $425,000 lawsuit launched against the city by Diane Shay, who was aContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – There are 12 people that owe the truth to the people of Cornwall. Bob Kilger, Elaine MacDonald, Syd Gardiner, Maurice Dupelle, Andre Rivette, Leslie O’Shaughnessy, Denis Carr, Denis Thibault, Bernadette Clement, David Murphy, Glen Grant, and yes, Gerry Samson owe the people of Cornwall some answers.Continue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – A new whistle blower has gone public. RN Julie Johnston of Cornwall Ontario who works at Glen Stor Dun Lodge has submitted a letter which we have published unedited below. Ms Johnston is the nurse that submitted 11 letters to council that never made their way directly;Continue Reading