All Posts Tagged With: "health care"
Best of 2011: Six Questions for Ted Hsu
Over the next two weeks, Kingstonist will be counting down our best posts from 2011. The list includes a diverse mix of topics that are near and dear to the hearts of our volunteer contributors. Rest assured, we’re already working on some interesting stories for 2012, but we’re suckers for best of and top 10 [...]
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Weekly Poll: Safe Injection Site
Last week, the Supreme Court of Canada unanimously decided to uphold British Columbia’s right to operate the safe drug injection site in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. The highly controversial Insite facility was established in 2003 to curb overdoses and disease spreading that is synonymous with illicit needle drugs. What is more contentious, while cocaine and heroin [...]
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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 Rodger James
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? There are still issues with sewer [...]
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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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Weekly Poll: Rate Local Health Care
My Grandmother ended up in the hospital this past weekend thanks to yet another nasty slip and fall. While she’s on the road to recovery, I couldn’t help but reflect on how strange the hospital experience was. Thankfully I’ve managed to stay out of Emerg, but sadly the same cannot be said for my wife. [...]
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Birth Fest
The third annual Birth Fest will take place at the Mulberry Waldorf School and will celebrate pregnancy, birth and family. Birth Fest aims to promote family health and well being by creating an opportunity for women and families to connect with one another and to get to know local health care options and service providers, [...]
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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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Six Questions for Ted Hsu
Today we’re featuring the third and final MP candidate interview with local Liberal Party representative, Ted Hsu. I would encourage you to read and compare his responses with those provided by Eric Walton and Daniel Beals respectively. By posing a standard set of questions to each candidate, we’ve been able to gain insight into their [...]
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