CORNWALL ONTARIO – Hydro will be THE election issue in Ontario. With Premier Wynne fighting for her political life she’s blinked first and reacted to the NDP’s strong first blow. The day after leader Andrea Horwath outlined plans to even out the playing field hydro wise, Ms Wynne announcedContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – In eight years here at CFN we’ve seen a few weird ones come in. Alana Kiteley of the MTO sent in the following release. However after exchanging emails it turned out it was not on behalf of the MTO. She and some fellow MTOContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – According to media reports, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne is suggesting that high hydro rates that are crippling Ontario are in fact her fault. Under the guise of caring for the environment, coal (even though there are new technologies that reduce carbon and pollution) was phased out inContinue Reading
CORNWALL ONTARIO – I left Team Cornwall after a sampling of its former President Gilles Latour, who’s now waiting his court dates from charges of fraud, including of his mother. I also am no longer a member of the Cornwall & Area Chamber of Commerce. When I first ranContinue Reading
Ontario Provincial Police News Portal OPP Media Release Corporate Communications GHQ OPP CHARGES TWO PEOPLE UNDER ELECTION ACT 2016-11-01 FROM/DE: Criminal Investigation Services DATE: November 1, 2016 OPP CHARGES TWO PEOPLE UNDER ELECTION ACT Sudbury Electoral Candidate Nomination Process (ORILLIA, ON) – Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) has charged two peopleContinue Reading
CORNWALL ONTARIO – Locally people are fighting to save their local schools, especially in rural areas like South Glengarry, where the people supporting Char-Lan are putting up a great battle including the video below shot by students Lloyd Rozon, and Harry Tieman. The group has also created a facebook page forContinue Reading
Letter to the editor – Hydro disaster in Ontario The Liberals added the 8% HST tax on our hydro bill to begin with now premier Wynne announces that she is going give us back the 8% HST in a tax rebate and thinks she helping us . I knowContinue Reading
September 27, 2016 Decision Will Reduce Electricity Costs for Consumers Ontario will immediately suspend the second round of its Large Renewable Procurement (LRP II) process and the Energy-from-Waste Standard Offer Program, halting procurement of over 1,000 megawatts (MW) of solar, wind, hydroelectric, bioenergy and energy from waste projects. This decisionContinue Reading
Randy Hillier, the PC MPP for Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox & Addington is one of my favorite politicians in Ontario. It’s not that I agree with all of his positions or support his party, but when you talk with him you can feel a passion and integrity that is sorely lacking in soContinue Reading
More cronyism in Cornwall Ontario as CFN has learned that former TC Media Seaway News editor Todd Lihou has been given a two year contract with Heart of the City, an arms length agency in Cornwall, funded with tax dollars, which employs City Councilor Denis Carr as it’s manager/leader. WeContinue Reading
Ontario Liberals are buying union votes at the hydro rate and taxpayers expense a recently retired Ontario Power Generation CEO made $1,528,933.36 in 2015 In 2014 at least 148 OPG and Hydro One employees made more than a quarter million dollars a year and there were 12,500 OPG and HydroContinue Reading
Letter to the editor Hydro at any cost in Ontari_owe: . Approximately 25 OPG workers are still employed at the closed coal Lambton station to preserve its idled condition for possible future conversion how many other closed coal plants employ people to do very little. The Atikokan converted biomass plant Continue Reading
Some agendas are more clear than others. The Ontario government makes a lot of money off of the licensing of tobacco products. In theory those monies are supposed to offset the high medical costs of traditionally smoked tobacco. E Cigs have grown exponentially with many using them asContinue Reading
As many regular CFN viewers know I am “Hyper Non Partisan” politically. I decided, after dealing with politicians here on CFN that I could no longer support Partisan Politics. It made no sense from a personal view point. Yes, belonging to a group could be a good thing, butContinue Reading
Province Strengthening Enforcement and Collaboration Ontario is taking action to combat contraband tobacco and keep our communities safe by creating a new Contraband Tobacco Enforcement Team within the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP). Located within the OPP’s Organized Crime Enforcement Bureau, the new team will be dedicated to investigating theContinue Reading
I mulled over whether to write this story or not. I get abused and attacked every time I highlight something negative about our city; even though what I write about is true. When I wrote about Swastikas in a local high school and used the R word it ledContinue Reading
Union expenses?? Seriously?? The government has been paying the various teachers unions “expenses” during contract negotiations? How long has this been going on? If my reading is correct it has been since at least 2008. And to top it off this is being done with no accountability!! When isContinue Reading
Ontario Conservative leader Patrick Brown took his seat at Queen’s Park and took aim at Premier Kathleen Wynne with his first question. He attacked on high hydro rates in the province which the Premier ducked and deflected. What do you think dear CFN viewers? Does Brown have game?Continue Reading