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Weekly Poll: Memorial Centre Market
Like many other Kingstonians, we had gardening on our minds this past long weekend. This resulted in countless hours spent digging around in the earth, coaxing our tiny vegetable seedlings into the ground and purchasing a few additional tomato, zucchini and pepper plants from local producers at the Market. This year however, we veered away [...]
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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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Kingston’s Town/Gown Symposium Largest Ever
According to the Town Gown Association of Ontario (TGAO), Kingston hosted the largest-ever annual TGAO Symposium this week. This was Kingston’s first chance to host more than 140 people from across Ontario representing various municipalities, colleges, universities, police departments and students associations at this important two day conference. The annual TGAO event aims to increase [...]
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Hall Monitor: Out With The Old
Last night, our elected officials braved the incredible heat of council chambers for meeting 15-2012 of Kingston City Council. The agenda and addeds from last night are on the city’s website. We decided to mix things up a bit last night and focus on the streaming video. With so many journalists now live-tweeting and using [...]
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Weekly Poll: May-Long Weekend
May two-four? More like yay two-four! With Victoria Day and a long weekend fast approaching, I’m finding it really difficult to concentrate on work at the moment. Sure, the May long weekend may not be a tourist-ridden spectacle involving a parade, fireworks display and the like, but it nevertheless signifies the unofficial start of something [...]
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Kingston Obstetrician’s Low-Tech Tool Inspires Smartphone App That Benefits Mothers, Babies and Physicians
A low-tech cardboard wheel used for decades by physicians to calculate pregnancy delivery dates has inspired the creation of a novel iPhone app with the potential to improve the health of new mothers – while also changing medical practice. Developed by Dr. Graeme Smith, a Kingston General Hospital obstetrician, Maternelle is a post-pregnancy tool that, [...]
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Kingston Correction Institutions Amongst Cheapest to Operate and Maintain
Continuing to pursue the government’s rationale behind the slated closures of local correctional institutions, Kingston and the Islands MP Ted Hsu made the following statement today: “The Public Safety Minister has more explaining to do. As part of my investigations into the announced closure of Kingston Penitentiary and Regional Treatment Centre, I went back to [...]
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Guide to Homegrown
In it’s fourth year, Homegrown Live Music Festival will once again be showcasing some of Kingston’s finest musicians all in support of Joe’s MILL and The Partners in Mission Food Bank. On Saturday, May 12th, eleven downtown venues will be taking part, each playing host to one specific genre of music. By purchasing a bracelet [...]
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Penitentiary Water Tower
Local urban legend has it that this sturdy landmark on Sir John A. Macdonald Boulevard, photographed by George Lilley in 1949, was where prisoners were hanged. Of course, this could not be farther from the truth. A purely functional building, the Kingston Penitentiary water tower was completed in 1895 on the former site of the [...]
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Weekly Poll: Condo-lences or Condo-nable?
Just over a year ago, it was announced that the massive hole at the corner of Bagot and Princess would become Anna Lane, a condo development that makes it easier to come up with an initial down payment. The building’s design sort of fits with the surrounding neighbourhood, which includes boxy buildings such as Staples [...]
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