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The Winston Churchill school community, School Street volunteers, and the Kingston Coalition for Active Transportation (KCAT) are celebrating a full school year of running the School Street program as elementary schools in the city enter their final week. This week, the program becomes the first of its kind in Ontario
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The proceeds from an end-of-May fundraiser by the Kingston and Area Real Estate Association (KAREA) were presented on the afternoon of Wednesday, Jun. 22, 2022. KAREA continued 19 years of raising funds for the Kingston Youth Shelter with the return of the organization’s fundraising Bowl-a-thon, which saw a two year
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Grad students at Queen’s say it’s been made clear to the university that the current need for more affordable housing is as great as ever. The school manages two larger housing complexes for grad students at west campus and ,while demand fluctuates from year to year, available units for the
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Landlords are sounding off against proposed changes to Kingston’s Nuisance Party Bylaws, saying the changes would punish them for something over which they have no control. At last Tuesday’s council meeting where discussion on the topic spilled over into a Wednesday night continuation (February 15 and 16, 2022), Kingston City
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EDITOR’S NOTE – Queen’s University provided a statement late Wednesday, included in full below the story. Graduate students working at Queen’s University look to be headed towards a strike mandate vote. Queen’s administration, led by Queen’s Director of Faculty Relations Michael Villeneuve, has been meeting with PSAC 901, the union
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The Limestone District School Board has laid off 56 casual employees who have failed to attest vaccination status. The information was presented at Wednesday’s Education, Policy, Operations Committee board meeting on November 10, 2021, by Superintendent of Human Resources Susan McWilliams. The layoffs have little to no impact on operations
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Lightstruck Film & Media has produced a documentary, The Kingston Red Barons: Born at the Right Time, honouring Kingston’s first all-female hockey team. David McCallum, the documentary producer, gathered the pioneers and team members of the Red Barons and presented their stories in an hour-long documentary. “It is little known
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On the same day St. Lawrence College and Queen’s University made similar announcements, Kingston Pride’s Board of Directors decided to require COVID-19 vaccination to maximize safety for attendees. The board released a statement that said they have made the “difficult but necessary decision that all attendees of in-person, COVID-screened events
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The recent announcement that Kingston’s longstanding Playtrium on Days Road would be closing its doors for good as of August 31 has brought back fond memories for many, but also a prevailing sense of worry that families of young children are rapidly losing options in town. “After several decades of
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Ballots are being mailed out today for the election of Algonquin Negotiation Representative (ANR) in three communities in Ontario. The ANRs include the Chief and Council of the Algonquins of Pikwakanagan First Nation and one representative from each of the nine other Algonquin communities. Six candidates have been acclaimed by
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The City of Kingston is welcoming a new Manager of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) after initially approving the position in February. Muhammad Ahsan will join the city of Kingston working alongside a number of departments to help promote an inclusive and diverse workplace. Ahsan says one of the most
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