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Hall Monitor: Off the Deep End
Last night, city council, staff and the public gathered in City Hall for Kingston City Council meeting number 14-2013. The city has published the agenda and addeds online. The meeting, while facing a full agenda, focused on two main items: the closure of the Oakwood Childcare Centre and the budget change request in Frontenac County [...]
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Hall Monitor: Speed of Money
Last night, city council, staff and the public gathered in City Hall for Kingston City Council meeting number 13-2013. The city has published the agenda and addeds online. The meeting seemed to fly by, with us letting out just before 9:30 – but quite a bit got accomplished in those two quick hours. The largest, by far, [...]
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Hall Monitor: Park The Vote
Our elected officials and city staff filled a very busy council chambers again last night for our regular council meeting and as usual, the agenda and addeds are available on the city website. The meeting paused at 8:51 pm to observe a minute of silence in memory of the tragedy that struck Boston last week. The bulk of [...]
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Guide to Patios 2013
Once again, dear reader, I am going to take my chances and allude to the fact that spring is here. Hopefully these words will ring true and won’t jinx us anymore this year. It is that time of year when (on some days) we can toy with the idea of enjoying some time on one [...]
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Outer Station, 1958
There are a multitude of examples of the harbingers of Spring in Kingston. Lawns of bluebells and flower beds full of crocuses, daffodils, and tulips. Longer days, and hopefully, warmer weather, which turns our thoughts to yard work, golf courses, sailboats, cycling, and strolls along the waterfront and through the conservation area. It is also [...]
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Weekly Poll: Keep Our Hospitals Public
This past weekend it was near impossible to make your way around Kingston and not come across one of the fifty-five polling stations that had been established to gauge public opinion regarding the public private partnership (P3) funding model that’s being considered for our new 270-bed hospital. The Providence Care project is one of the [...]
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Residents Must Get Approval To Voice Concerns About Ontario’s Tar Sands Pipeline (Line 9)
Residents of Ontario (and Quebec) must fill out a 10-page form and submit a resume in hopes of being allowed to ask questions or voice their concerns about an Enbridge plan to pump 300,000 barrels of oil and bitumen from the Alberta tar sands every day through the 37-year-old Line 9 pipeline. And under new [...]
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Hall Monitor: Representative Cartography
While April’s meetings are a little off from our regular schedule, our council and city staff took to Council Chambers last night for our regular meeting, sort of; and as usual, the agenda and addeds are available on the city website. I suppose I’ll get the easy part over with first. Our meeting began with a [...]
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What if Kingston…
When we purchased our first home nearly five years ago this summer, we eagerly embraced all of the challenges and chores that came along with being new home owners. This resulted in various purchases such as shovels for tending to snow-covered sidewalks, a ladder to help us clear out leaf-packed eaves-troughs, as well as our [...]
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Weekly Poll: Development of Block 4
During a special meeting last Wednesday evening, City Council voted to begin the process of developing the downtown property known as North Block 4. Located across from the KRock Centre and dubbed “the gateway to the downtown”, this area offers great opportunity to potential developers. Thus far, council has created a starting point for options [...]
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