All Posts Tagged With: "KGH"
Weekly Poll: Frosh Week Folly
It’s hard to believe, but eleven years ago I was entering my first year of undergraduate studies at Queen’s University. I can still remember the nervous ride in the fully-loaded, family minivan on move-in day. We were greeted by various vulgar slogans hung from the overpasses of the 401, and as we got closer, groups [...]
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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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Guide to Museums
As one of Canada’s oldest cities, Kingston is rich with history. You can find Canadian Heritage signs on buildings of all types, and monuments declaring the historical significance of various locations throughout the city. Many of these sites still act as private homes and stores but we are also lucky to have dedicated folks who [...]
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Limestone Race Weekend
Over 500 runners are expected in four events, including the Kidsfest Kids’ Run and KGH Trauma 10k, both on Saturday afternoon, April 30th in City Park, and the Limestone 1/2 Marathon and 5k races on Sunday May 1st. The Sunday races start and finish in front of Kingston City Hall. Kingston Road Runners annual Limestone [...]
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TV Desserts with Ohbijou
In my ongoing quest to discover new online tidbits of information concerning the Limestone City, I search for terms such as “Kingston, Ontario”, and I am often surprised by results such as the latest from KGH Food Services’ foodfight.ca. Lately though I’ve noticed a really terrible trend on YouTube of all places, which seems to [...]
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Mouthy Features Local Stories, Storytellers
Mouthy provides a forum for guests to dabble in engaging storytelling by featuring a different theme each month. On Tuesday night, the group met at The Artel to share compelling tales with a Kingston flavour.
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Taxing Times
I have a confession: I love budget season at city hall. Sickening, isn’t it? The draft 2010 budget was released over the weekend at city hall, two weeks ahead of when budget meetings will actually commence. (I should clarify that the entire budget was not released on the city’s website — the staff reports with [...]
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Another Questionable Bus Ad
In the past, I’ve written about advertising on board Kingston Transit’s fleet that did not promote the use of public transportation, as well as the prospect of a controversial atheist campaign. Both posts sparked mild debate over the rules and regulations, which govern advertising on board city buses. On one hand, advertising on mass transit [...]
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Grey’s Anatomy it Ain’t
With all of the negative discussion surrounding the state of hospitals in Canada it is hard to see any bright light. Hospitals are understaffed and therefore the waiting rooms are backed up beyond belief, leaving many people to spend hours there with minor (and sometimes not so minor) injuries. We hear these stories all the [...]
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Docs at the Krock
I’ve been in Kingston for 9 years and I finally have a doctor! Well, I shouldn’t put it that way, the four years I was at Queen’s I had access to their health centre but was sent on my way with no help in finding a doctor now that I was moving here permanently. Luckily, [...]
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