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A second Watch has been declared at Kingston’s Providence Care Hospital. “A COVID-19 watch has been declared on Parkside 0, an inpatient unit at Providence Care Hospital, after a staff member tested positive,” the hospital said in a press release. Providence Care said it has notified KFL&A Public Health about
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Environment Canada has issued a Special Weather Statement for Kingston, Odessa, Frontenac Islands, Napanee, and Consecon, due to the possibility of freezing rain on Sunday night. “A low pressure system will track east across the Great Lakes Sunday through Monday,” the national weather service advised. According to Environment Canada, precipitation
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The 1000 Islands Addiction Rehab & Treatment Centre has temporarily closed due to multiple cases of COVID-19, the centre has confirmed. The addictions treatment centre, located in Mallorytown, Ontario, serves clients from all over Canada and the USA. Andrea Robillard, the treatment centre’s President, confirmed that the associated cases are
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A new book, Healing Through Storytelling, provides a touchstone to recovery and restoration from the intergenerational trauma caused by the residential school system by recording survivors’ stories in words and art. The book, honouring local residential school survivors from the Bay of Quinte and their families, was made possible when
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As a positive twist on the misogynistic signs painted on white bed sheets during Queen’s University Homecoming weekend this past October, three Kingston groups have come together to give residents a chance to paint messages of support to end violence against women. “We want people to hang sheets [outside their
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A Kingston-based organic grocery store, located on downtown Princess Street, has garnered Gold Level in the Small Business Health and Safety Leadership Awards for 2021. Presented annually by the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB), the award amounts to $5,000, and the winner was selected among the participating stores and
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University students from Africa have an opportunity to receive entrepreneurship training through the Jim Leech Mastercard Foundation Fellowship of Entrepreneurship for African Students at Queen’s University. The Mastercard Foundation and the Dunin-Deshpande Queen’s Innovation Centre (DDQIC) have announced a partnership offering the free virtual entrepreneurship training, and an opportunity to
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Kingston Police have released the above photo and are asking for the public’s assistance in locating a missing female, Erin Davis, 42. According to police, Davis was reported missing on Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021 and her whereabouts remain unknown. She is described as a white female standing 5’7” and weighing
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Medium-security Bath Institution is currently on lockdown, according to Correctional Service Canada (CSC). A lockdown was put in place at the Institution at approximately 7:20 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021. The lockdown, which CSC said was prompted by a suspected throw-over, was put in place to allow staff members
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A Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) CH-146 Griffon helicopter landed at Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC)’s Kingston General Hospital (KGH) helipad today, Friday, Dec. 3, 2021, as part of Operation HOHOHO, an annual event that brings holiday cheer to the hospital’s young patients and their families. With the help of
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The following is a submitted Op/Ed. The views and opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of Kingstonist. In June 1981, the world received the first reports of what would later be known as HIV/AIDS. In the forty years since, over 36 million people have died from the disease. Today,
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The Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington region has recorded its eleventh death due to COVID-19. The deceased was a male in his 60s, according to provincial information. This is the fifth death in KFL&A associated with COVID-19 over the past two weeks, after a male in his 60s died on
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