Running for office is a major life decision. You are putting yourself out into the public eye to serve your community. There are many challenges. Whether you’re a rookie or experienced, the two sessions of this seminar have something to add to your arsenal of tools and help you not only get elected, but serve […]
Cornwall Ontario – Running for office isn’t the only way to help a community. For many it’s a vain ego thing. I just turned down a new provincial party looking for a local candidate. Looking around the table here in Council there really are only 1 or 2 that truly get what being a councilor […]
Cornwall Ontario – Like the fat kid chasing after the ice cream truck to be first in line conflicted Cornwall City David Murphy registered to run for Mayor on the first day possible. It was no surprise to many including the #metoo women he hit on while teaching at St. Lawrence College or local barmaids. […]
Cornwall Ontario – City Councilor Mark A MacDonald who has come under fire for pointing out the obvious, that which has inflamed the fiscal burden on the city’s budget might be where Cornwall has to look to find solutions, has come out with an intriguing and positive proposal which he’s released to city staff, council, […]
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 staffer could’ve had the same answers […]
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 in fact his last column, after […]
Cornwall Ontario – An incensed Cornwall Ontario City Councilor, Mark A MacDonald, sent an angry email from his vacation in Barbados over a budget committee vote for a tax hike of nearly 5% for 2018 to council and the media this afternoon! At the root of his tirade was the Community Action Group (CAG) […]
Cornwall Ontario – Good day everyone, I’m “Wendy the Weed Witch” and I’m excited to entertain and at least give some guidance regarding medicinal marijuana. A word of caution; as a patient, I tend to use common sense logic and am brutally honest as to the bullshit surrounding medicinal marijuana. For the first time legally, […]
Cornwall Ontario – One of the areas most successful agri businesses is closing after nearly 30 years of being in business. From its mill in Berwick Homestead Organics expanded into the facility in Morrisburg and at their peak employed over 25. 18 people will lose their employment. Our 25th Anniversary interview with Tom Manley before […]
Cornwall Ontario – Usually Cornwall doesn’t get much attention from political leaders in Ontario. At best it’s usually some glad handing at closed riding association events which was why it was nice that PC leader Doug Ford and his team gave CFN some one on one time via telephone Thursday. In a most unusual election […]
Cornwall Ontario – Multiple sources are now identifying former Cornwall City Councilor Robert Brock Frost as a police informant for the CCPS and other police services. Three sources have fingered the Columbian challenged former councilor, in particular to the Mike Logan cocaine bust and the Cedars on Wheels bust right across the street from the […]
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 Levesque which sadly will only lead […]
Cornwall Ontario – I’ve been a big fan of the salary cap, especially as I created one of the first Rotisserie style hockey league systems way back in the late 80’s. It makes a lot of sense. However the NHL under the long tenure of Commissioner Gary Bettman has changed the game dramatically. Yes, Bettman […]
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 weekly news bible reviewed his battle […]
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 rather than meandering about cuts to […]
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 would they leave their buses? The […]
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 agreed to his hearing in English, […]
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 and friends at the hands of […]