Cornwall Ontario – Poor Hugo Rodrigues. I say that in jest. The former President of the Canadian Association of Journalism spewed a rant over our pathetic Ministry of Culture, Melanie Joly’s, new whatchamacalit thingy where essentially the biggest gloat was Netflix spending $500M creating content in Canada. Nothing against Netflix,Continue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – Can you imagine a magazine called “Cornwall Living” not really about living in Cornwall? The vanity magazine is grossly subsidized by Bob Peters and the City via its Economic Development department. You can’t blame TC media who simply are trying to run a business, but whenContinue Reading
It was bewildering to get a phone call at CFN from a very upset Cornwall Ontario Mom. Laurie St. Pierre is a hard working mom of two with no criminal record. According to her and her ex husband, court documents state that they currently have joint custody with Ms. St.Continue Reading
The Standard Freeholder has been around a long time. The newspaper, after only being owned by the Sun chain for a brief time, ended up with Post Media after they consumed the chain. Where you had contrast in many Canadian cities with a Sun tabloid vs a broadsheet many citiesContinue Reading
You ever see someone and you know that either they aren’t sleeping, are about to lose their job, or simply aren’t getting enough TLC? Hugo Rodrigues, editor of the Standard Freeholder, has been on the warpath of late. We here call it “Gilcig very very lite.” The biggest differenceContinue Reading
CFN – As a service to Standard Freeholder readers who cannot post comments on local stories we at CFN thought we’d allot some space for you to discuss their top local stories of the day. Here are the links: An unnerving array of notice when it comes to council agendas inContinue Reading
CFN – As a service to Standard Freeholder readers who cannot post comments on local stories we at CFN thought we’d allot some space for you to discuss their top local stories of the day. Here are the links: Cornwall microbrewery a dream come true Cornwall and Akwesasne students pushedContinue Reading
CFN – As a service to Standard Freeholder readers who cannot post comments on local stories we at CFN thought we’d allot some space for you to discuss their top local stories of the day. Here are the links: Sponsoring a Bike-a-Thon rider led to organizing a concert for theContinue Reading
CFN – In a not so surprising move the Standard Freeholder today announced that it would no longer allow comments for local stories. Comments are a huge topic for media. On the positive they can truly move a story forward and add valuable debate and information. On the negative theyContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – A simple first paragraph of a news story has set off a fire storm of controversy between South Stormont Mayor Jim Bancroft and his council and the Standard Freeholder. “A need to set aside money for reserves to help pay for future projects is driving a 12.2%Continue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – Ok,we’re a bit late and are at 51,169 comments since 2009. CFN doesn’t use key word filters. All of our comments have been manually approved. It’s not a perfect system, but one day we may publish a collection of the comments we never published. CFNContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – I hate fake. I hate fake flowers. I hate fake stuff. Mostly I really am not a fan of fake people and fake spin; especially when it’s petty. Yesterday some very silly persons appearing to lack personal integrity tried to showboat with an ALS Ice Bucket challenge.Continue Reading
(photo:facebook) CORNWALL Ontario – Imagine using ALS as a cause to play petty small town politics? That’s exactly what some media outlets did in Cornwall Ontario today. Many across social media are using the ALS challenge for the right reasons of raising awareness; but many are also using itContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – For a new comer Hugo Rodrigues, editor of the Standard Freeholder and poobah at the Canadian Association of Journalists is upset. He’s mad. He’s talking radio licenses. He’s not happy that Corus radio shut down their newsroom in Cornwall terminating three jobs. I agree with him.Continue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – Today Corus Radio shut down The Cornwall Daily.com; essentially cutting down its local newsroom in Cornwall. Three jobs were lost including,most likely, news director Bill Kingston who also represented the station as a member of the board of the Cornwall & Area Chamber of Commerce; aContinue Reading
CFN – It was recently brought to my attention that a person commenting on the Cornwall Standard Freeholder site is using the moniker “gardengirl13”. I am not sure if this is on purpose or not, I choose to believe the party is innocent until proven guilty, but it deeply offendsContinue Reading
(Photo:Facebook) CORNWALL Ontario – Hugo Rodrigues is new to Cornwall; but he certainly isn’t new to journalism. Besides now being the Editor in Chief of the oldest newspaper in Cornwall Mr. Rodrigues is the National President at the CAJ Canadian Association of Journalists. You would think that he, more than yourContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – Be gentle. She still smells of new car. We have done our annual April Fool’s makeover of CFN. So far so good. We do have some minor tinkering to do, and wiggling and jiggling of elements. If you see anything we miss feel free toContinue Reading