CORNWALL Ontario – Gilles Latour reached out to his clients via email. We received several of these forwarded to us today (info@cornwallfreenews.com) along with some very concerned messages by clients of Latour Wealth Management. Dear , As you may have heard, I am currently facing legal challenges. I planContinue Reading
CFN – Where to start; the political climate in this area is absolutely scary. This does not feel like a community, this feels like a battle between good and evil. I do not believe I need to define who is who, anyone with a functioning brain can see thatContinue Reading
Bob Kilger: Gilles Latour is a long-time personal friend and my thoughts are with him and his family at this time. (photo:facebook) CORNWALL Ontario – Former Team Cornwall Prez Gilles Latour was arrested in his office after a five month investigation by Corwall Police Services, but very little informationContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – It’s been two days since Monday night’s council meeting in Cornwall where Stephen Fournier presented his report to council. He really didn’t have to be there for the fifth time. That’s unusual as Mr. Fournier is simply a closed meeting investigator. In this case itContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – It’s time for our July 2014 Lihou Report; named after Seaway News Editor Todd Lihou, who raved about their numbers without really giving any numbers. His narrative inspired this new name change in our numbers reporting as CFN has always tried to be upfront about the support we getContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – Stephen Fournier, Closed Meeting Investigator for the City of Cornwall will be attending the Council meeting of Monday August 11 after council bumped discussing the report by a month. His report of what occurred at a Waterfront committee meeting where Mayor Kilger and Councilor Glen Grant votedContinue Reading
Last week I sent out press releases to area media. It invited members of the press to attend my conference in front of City Hall. Only one outlet showed up and I gave out my information and was asked some good questions as the reporter is one of our betterContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – In a recent Freeholder story Economic Development officer Bob Peters goes on about our amazing “growth” in Cornwall; but are we really growing economically? The city cites new distribution centre jobs, but doesn’t count the loss of our call centres; nor does it focus on recentContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – In a bewildering flip flop Cornwall Waterfront Committee member Patrick Clarke sent in his press release to announce his decision to run for council. Mr. Clarke (seated between Roy Perkins and Councilor Glen Grant) recently at the meeting where the WFC went in camera illegally as outlinedContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – Last week CFN sent a query to all those officially running for council regarding the voted upon pay hike for elected officials at the last Council meeting. The raise was severe and many residents have voted their outrage at having such increases including those union staff askedContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – Our city continues to slide in the Moneysense compilation of the best places to live in Canada. From 92 in 2010 to 167 in 2012 , our fair city has dropped to 173 in 2014. The rankings note our 9.9% unemployment rate, growth of only 2.8% from 2008-2013,Continue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – Jim Brownell is very upset. He’s ranting on his facebook page about yours truly. His invective is pretty out there for the normally mild mannered and polite retired school teacher and former Liberal MPP for our riding. I have been a huge supporter of Mr. Brownell, butContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – In what turned out to be one of the longest presentations to council I’ve ever endured Cornwall City council voted to give itself an unprecedented raise Monday evening. The presentation was so long that the mayor and four councilors took potty breaks during the monstrous amount ofContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – The July 14th meeting of Cornwall Ontario City Council has to be the best example of the dysfunction and corruption of the Kilger group. The meeting itself lasted until nearly 11PM and there were three main issues (four but I promised I’d play nicey nice on theContinue Reading
I normally don’t comment much on municipal affairs but the issue of pay increases for city council that will come up Monday night bothers me no end and proves in my mind that those advocating it are in it for the money. I covered city council for about 30 years and ofContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – Stephen Fournier, Closed Meeting investigator for the City of Cornwall Ontario has confirmed that the Mayor and two veteran councilors allowed a meeting of the Waterfront Committee to move in camera wrongly. The details of the report will be released by City Hall shortly; but it theContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – Woodhouse Museum Curator Ian Bowering finally paid for Battery and damaging our CFN camera ME-2 today at the Courthouse in Cornwall Ontario. It took seven months sadly because Mr. Bowering reneged on his apology and agreement to pay for damages. The incident stemmed from his attacking CFNContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – Mark MacDonald had called a meeting this morning at his new fave breakfast spot, Napoleon’s, in Cornwall Ontario. Candidates were invited to come down, speak, talk to media, and the focus was the report being voted on Monday night regarding a steep pay hike for council andContinue Reading