CORNWALL Ontario – What should we pay our mayor and council in Cornwall? Clearly their salaries are low and some might say you get what you pay for. There are some, like Bernadette Clement, that spend mightily to get elected and clearly are using the role of Councilor as aContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – Mayor Bob Kilger has become nearly invisible as he devotes that last gasps of his term in office to secret meetings with the Federal Government and Akwesasne over proposed waterfront divestiture discussions. Over a decade ago such conversations took place, but rightly so Cornwall officials ducked itContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – Bob, Bob, Bob. It’s time to hang it up. I know the buzz is your busy helping the Feds dump the harbor properties on we poor taxpayers of Cornwall. I get it when you sleep more nights away from Cornwall than here that youContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – I had an interesting chat with two of Cornwall’s finest last night. Mayhem broke out at the Waterfront Committee meeting. CFN and myself were blindsided. For a few years now our high school drop out mayor, Bob Kilger, and some of his friends; I guess becauseContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – The Free Holder has a new Editor; one Hugo Rodrigues. He recently wrote about the Chem Tanks. It’s always interesting reading another perspective; but any perspective has to be clearly based on the facts. Has Mr. Rodrigues, as the Editor of the TC Media ownedContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – Is Mayor Kilger and his council after the RCAF Wing ? According to documents from Committee meetings it appears that the Wing is in play and part of the secret closed door Divestiture meetings taking place during the last year of this term. With Mayor KilgerContinue Reading
CFN – The circus that has become the Chem Tanks plunked on our waterfront by Trillium Distribution Cornwall Inc. has taken a bizarre turn. Mark A MacDonald who is running for council suggested that Council demand that Guy Lauzon resign. It makes for great filler on a slow news day; butContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – The little shed that could apparently couldn’t. After getting some new paint it was hauled away by order via Herb’s Towing. I contacted Mark A MacDonald; council candidate and leader behind his own occupy movement regarding the tanks and he stated the following: It’s too bad weContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – There has been one consistent public message in Cornwall Ontario since December 2013, and that the community wishes to not have chemical tanks on our waterfront and in particular the ones on the Trillium Distribution Inc. site. While there are varied responses, that’s the common theme. Continue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – Cornwall has lost a piece of its history as former Mayor Phil Poirier has passed away after a long illness. He was 68. He was a kind and generous man who cared greatly for his community. In my five years here at CFN he was very givingContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – Mark A MacDonald likes to throw around the term Occupy or Occupy Cornwall. Who can blame him. We all like to have some bad ass street cred; but frankly this gerrymandering about the Chem tanks is creating support for the bad guys. If you believe theContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – There’s a picture of Elaine MacDonald leading a march down Pitt Street over the health accord in today’s Freeholder. Ms MacDonald must have liked our march over the Chem tanks last month as she’s imitated it; but there are a couple of very scary issues at play.Continue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – We have just heard from organizer Mark A MacDonald that the Cabane a Sucre wagon will be placed in front or near the site of the contested Chem Tank site next to Legion Ball Park. We will be updating with video as more information becomes available.Continue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – So I attended the Chamber mixer at Table 21 Tuesday. I don’t go to many of these any more because frankly our Chamber here in Cornwall is a colossal joke. Corrupt, full of cronyism, and totally inept. From strange elections, to going hat in handContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – When politics take over principles we all lose. Today it was announced that the Cornwall General Hospital site was sold to developers in Ottawa for $2M. We have not confirmed that number as the Hospital has not sent us a release. Sadly politics doomedContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – While Mayor Bob Kilger and his council in Cornwall can spin the current discussions with the Federal Government over the Harbour lands, the bottom line is that council gave a green light with a 8-1 vote (councilor Samson was in Florida again) for the Mayor and ClerkContinue Reading
CFN – One of the first few things I learned when studying journalism is the importance of being unbiased. You can’t rationally write an objective article about somebody or something if you have an attachment of any kind to the subject. Your opinion will sway the flavour of your article,Continue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – Like something out of the movie Chinatown it looks like the Mayor and some of his team have been caught gerrymandering in the dark with regards to the divestiture of Harbour lands in Cornwall. What should simply have been a municipal government yielding to the will ofContinue Reading