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Ted Darby is the Ontario Liberal Party candidate for Hastings—Lennox and Addington (H—L&A). The son and grandson of physicians, Darby jokes that he couldn’t bear to dissect a frog, let alone a human, so he took his enthusiasm for public health into environmental science and health care administration. He has
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Candidates in the race for MPP of Hastings-Lennox & Addington faced off Wednesday evening at the Napanee Lions Hall. The debate was the second of two in Napanee. On Tuesday, May 17, 2022, a previous candidates’ meeting was held by education workers with only New Democrat Eric DePoe, Liberal Ted Darby,
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City Council received and passed a motion on Tuesday, May 17, 2022, directing City staff to review information on options to incorporate the regulation of taxis in Kingston and Loyalist Township within municipal services and under the City Council’s oversight. This comes on the heels of what can only be
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A striking worker was struck by a truck and injured while on the picket line at a Barr Homes construction site in Amherstview, Tuesday, May 17, 2022. Terry Moore, 42, had just begun his first picket, at the corner of County Road 23 and County Road 6, when he was
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The Town of Greater Napanee issued a Statement of Apology Monday, May 16, 2022, after Napanee Town Council mistakenly approved a proclamation request declaring May 13 Falun Dafa Day. At the Regular Meeting of Council on April 26, 2022, Council approved a proclamation request from the Falun Dafa Association on
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Content warning: This article contains quotes with strong language and profanity. Kingston City Council convened for a special meeting Thursday night, May 12, 2022, to discuss the encampment of homeless citizens around the Integrated Care Hub (ICH) and in Belle Park. A motion recommending a continued pause on the City’s
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While the sixth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic appears to have peaked, with the transmission of the virus on the decline, Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Piotr Oglaza, told the press on Thursday, May 12, 2022, that Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington (KFL&A) residents should not yet let down their
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Unifor is outraged after members returned to work following a nearly six-month-long strike at Napanee’s Lennox and Addington Interval House, only to be terminated. Striking shelter workers at the Lennox and Addington Interval House (LAIH) accepted and unanimously ratified the employer’s most recent offer on March 29, 2022, ending their
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In a media release Tuesday, May 10, 2022, the Ontario Party (OP) announced that Derek Sloan, party leader and local candidate in the riding of Hastings-Lennox and Addington (HL&A), has had his Twitter account suspended, just like his consultant and friend, Trump advisor Roger Stone. According to the OP, Sloan’s
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After much public and private outcry about a 40 per cent fare increase, the Kingston Area Taxi Commission (KATC) held a special meeting on Monday, May 9, 2022, to make amendments revoking the massive increase. In addition, the Commission revoked the controversial tiered fare schedule, which was adopted on Apr.
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Ric Bresee is your Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario (PC) Candidate for Hastings–Lennox and Addington. Born and raised in Amherstview, Bresee has lived most of his 55 years in the riding. He graduated from St. Lawrence College as a Business Systems Analyst, and spent 1996 to 2015 working full-time as
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Eric DePoe is the New Democratic Party (NDP) candidate for Hastings—Lennox and Addington. DePoe has always been an activist. He worked as a mail sorter at Canada Post for 28 years, where he defended the rights of Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) employees as a union activist and as
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