Soapbox
Community Soapbox: Kingston Rallies Against Potential Cuts to Health Care
Most Ontarians don’t realize that the McGuinty government’s recent “austerity” budget will catapult the health system into another round of cuts and restructuring. With this warning, the Ontario and Kingston Health Coalitions are launching a 15 city tour across Ontario, including a town hall meeting in Kingston, to prepare citizens to stand up and protect [...]
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Community Soapbox: Battle Brewing Over Lease Agreement
I have a disappointing update to our [Coffeeco's] efforts to reach agreement on a lease extension at our Johnson Street location. For those of you who haven’t been following I’ll provide a detailed update. We have been sub-letting space at 344 Johnson Street from a failed coffee business and abiding to the terms of an [...]
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Best of 2011: Sustainability and the Third Crossing
We’re always amazed by the op-ed submissions that end up in our inbox, while one of the best of 2011 came from Alan Foljambe. He wrote about peak oil, commuter culture and their relation to the proposed third crossing over the Cataraqui River. Alan articulately argued that the third crossing is a non-starter for a [...]
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Community Soapbox: Improvised Explosive Delight
A Soldier Reflects on Kingston Cuisine after Returning Home Eleven months of eating dust, bombarded by rockets fired by an elusive, entrenched enemy, and all I can think about is the perfect sandwich. Separated from your family and the comforts of home, one has a great deal of time to build an elaborate sandwich fantasy. [...]
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Kingstonist’s Challenge # 6: Soapbox
Welcome to Kingstonist’s weekly challenge, dare, resolution or whatever you prefer to call it. Each week we establish a new and ambitious community goal, encouraging our readers, followers, friends and families to step out of their comfort zones and do something great, and hopefully a little out of the ordinary. Consider this your official and [...]
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Community Soapbox: Observations from the Bike Lane
I’ve been riding my bike here in Kingston for a few years now. After 10s of thousands of miles commuting on two wheels under my own power, I have noticed a few things about drivers. Things that they themselves probably not realize. So here as a public service, four recommendations from me to you, to [...]
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Community Soapbox: Sustainability and the Third Crossing
Despite the hard work done by the creators the Sustainable Kingston plan, Kingston is not a sustainable city. It may well be “the most sustainable city in Canada”, but since, to my knowledge, no city in Canada is anywhere near sustainable, that isn’t really saying much. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man [...]
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Best of 2010: Dear Prison Farm Supporters
According to Kingstonist’s final poll of 2010, the Limestone City’s most defining headline of the year was the closure of our Prison Farms. We received a generous number of photos and videos from the protests, while the most significant submission came by way of a letter via our Community Soapbox. Months later, Patrick Thompson’s account [...]
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Community Soapbox: Skate Park Closure
The City of Kingston is planning on removing vital and much used skate board equipment from the West 49 Lyon Skate Park in Polson Park in an effort to reduce usage of the skate park by teenagers. The skate park was developed through an initiative by members of the Polson Park Free Methodist Church. Initial [...]
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Community Soapbox: Ebikes
With the cool, wet weather returning, I’m noting the absence of a certain nifty little machine, out in the rainy traffic in front of my house today. The first time I saw one, it was hurtling toward me, going the wrong way up a one-way street. The second time, it was wobbling along in the [...]
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