Cornwall Ontario – CUPE sent out a release today. The four CUPE locals who have been on strike in Cornwall have each ratified their tentative agreements. Assuming City Council and the Library Board both ratify from management’s side today, people will return to work on Tuesday. Oddly enough more questionsContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – Cornwall council has embarrassed the city multiple times over the last few terms. From the Fitzpatrick scandals, to the CFN boycott that included a mayor hitting the panic button over a t shirt he didn’t like, to this writers false arrest during the election while the mayorContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – Imagine that you’re a publisher, editor, or journalist in Ontario in 2018. Times are tough in the newspaper business. Print is dying if not dead. The economy in Ontario is not rosy, especially outside of certain areas like Toronto. And as you scroll through facebook youContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – It can be bewildering sitting in a council meeting in Cornwall. Monday night was first one in about three years, but more about that in a later editorial. Monday night we were treated to a presentation of information from Transport Canada that any journalist or city stafferContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – In Ontario you don’t have to be a lawyer or paralegal to be appointed as a Justice of the Peace. You don’t need any legal training or background. Essentially you need a highschool diploma, which is why former Cornwall Mayor Bob Kilger couldn’t become one, and reallyContinue Reading
WORKPLACE RETALIATION HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF 1. If you have a professional organization which offers legal protection join now. Without RNAO I would have been financially destroyed very early in the process. 2. Check your facts from all sources i.e., review the files, speak with police, the Ministry review policiesContinue Reading
“Choose Cornwall”. I did. In fact, both my wife and I did. We came here to attend St. Lawrence College, (SLC) not knowing much about the area.You can look at tourism sites, review sites and city websites but you never know what kind of culture a place has until you’veContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – Our city councilor here in Cornwall, Claude McIntosh, actually once wrote about me having to do all the jobs here at CFN as though it were something to be embarrassed about or amateur. Of course he’s participated on a City Council that boycotts this newspaper and inContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – When I ran for Mayor of Cornwall in 2014 I was really clear about our number one issue, taxes. I had a clear plan that would cut taxes by 5%. Now knowing the lay of the land; my false police charges, still not held accountable for byContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – There are rules for In Camera meetings for a reason. Past councils of Cornwall, including many current members have been sanctioned for violating them in the past. Now apparently they simply are trying to rewrite their rule book putting all the pressure on Clerk Manon LevesqueContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – Corruption is not new to Cornwall. Sadly it’s in the culture. Bullying and ignorance is far too common. This writer experienced it first hand during my time saving our former Art Gallery before it ultimately folded simply because of the insane politics of this area. IContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – With the Sunshine List coming out (a list of public servants earning over $100K annually) it’s frightening to see the escalation of Cornwall area services, especially at City Hall where there’s a wage freeze and hiring freeze of unionized employees while management is seeing in some cases,Continue 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
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 – 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 -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 – 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