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• Defence challenges testimony, witnesses, in fatal cycling collision trial in Cornwall

  10-07-2026 22:52 via standard-freeholder.com
  
  The trial into the fatal collision involving a teenage cyclist continued Friday in Cornwall, as the defendant’s lawyer cross-examined earlier testimony and the court spent a chunk of the day dealing with procedural matters.Karen Brennan’s defence counsel, Jonatan La Rochelle, launched a long and unrelenting cross-examination of the Crown’s case, and a key expert witness. His focus was over undisclosed police emails, typing errors in the evidence, and the qualifications of the
  
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• Cornwall purchases former Parisien Manor building

  10-07-2026 19:41 via standard-freeholder.com
  
  Cornwall council voted in favour of purchasing the former Parisien Manor building from RKK Investments Inc. on Monday.The related bylaw passed during a special meeting of council explained how the corporation deemed the action as expedient and in the public interest. The purchase includes the property includes the lands addressed 435-439 Second St. E. and 202 Marlborough St.In March, council passed a bylaw for the city to extend its lease agreement at the property until the end of December, in
  
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• Ridgewood fined for February 2025 workplace injury in Cornwall

  10-07-2026 00:52 via standard-freeholder.com
  
  Ridgewood Industries Ltd. entered a guilty plea in a Cornwall court last month after a workplace injury that happened at its Cornwall plant on Feb. 20, 2025.The Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development released the details of the plea entered on June 16, and the $50,000 fine assigned by Justice of the Peace Stephen Diblee on Thursday afternoon. The company will also pay a 25 per cent victim surcharge equal to $12,500.In its summary, the ministry explained the injury happ
  
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