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Six Questions for Mary Rita Holland
1. Kingston has made some modest strides over the past few years to become Canada’s most sustainable city. What are the key environmental areas that you feel the city needs to improve upon? If elected, how would you and your party support continued green development in the Limestone City? One of the areas of which [...]
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Six Questions for John Gerretsen
1. Kingston has made some modest strides over the past few years to become Canada’s most sustainable city. What are the key environmental areas that you feel the city needs to improve upon? If elected, how would you and your party support continued green development in the Limestone City? I don’t feel it would be [...]
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Six Questions for Robert Kiley
1. Kingston has made some modest strides over the past few years to become Canada’s most sustainable city. What are the key environmental areas that you feel the city needs to improve upon? If elected, how would you and your party support continued green development in the Limestone City? In May 2010, Statistics Canada revealed [...]
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Ad-hoc Seniors Advisory Committee Proposed By Mayor
Noting a commitment made to the community in his inaugural address of December 2010, Mayor Mark Gerretsen today announced his proposal to City Council for the creation of an ad-hoc Seniors Advisory Committee. “Kingston is known to have one of the largest seniors populations in the country, per capita,” said Mayor Gerretsen. “That demographic in [...]
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Hall Monitor: Going Live
Considering all of the extended, high-energy, high-impact council sessions we’ve seen lately, Tuesday night’s get-together was far more subdued and routine – but a lot got done in the hour and a half or so that council was in open session. First, as we reported yesterday, the by-laws to allow for the 18-month backyard hen [...]
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Weekly Poll: Prioritizing Captial Infrastructure Projects
I need you to think back to last October, during the lead up to the 2010 municipal election. At that time, candidates of all stripes were making the rounds, touting the necessity of this aquatic centre over that road expansion, and then there’s the ongoing saga to realize a third crossing over the Cataraqui River. [...]
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Hall Monitor: A Capital Plan!
This is the first of a series looking at our city council’s strategic planning sessions and the resulting document. At the time of this writing, neither the final draft nor the final strategic plan have been presented or approved by council. The information below is based on observations and drafts made available at the time [...]
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Final Municipal Housing Strategy Draft Available
The complete draft of the Municipal Housing Strategy is now available for public review and comment until Friday, June 10. Once finalized, the Municipal Housing Strategy will define a number of community-based approaches to strategically address housing needs to encourage affordable housing in Kingston and the County of Frontenac. This last draft of the Strategy, [...]
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Council Approves 3.39 Per Cent Municipal Tax Increase
Last night, Kingston’s new City Council approved its first operating budget keeping the municipal tax rate increase at 3.39 per cent. “Council took a very considered approach in its deliberations and City staff was very responsive in answering their questions. City staff members are to be commended for keeping their budgets keyed to the rate [...]
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Friday Foto
Yum! This week was delicious, wasn’t it? Our unintentional focus on food has given us some ideas for possible future theme weeks…stay posted. So, we all survived the first week back and it looks like we’re going to be rewarded for our hard work with some gorgeous weather. Hopefully this won’t result in too much [...]
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