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Lockdown ended at Joyceville Institution after workplace health and safety issue resolved

March 11, 2020March 11, 2020 Tori Stafford 0 Comments Canada Labour Code, Correctional Service Canada (CSC), Employment and Social Development Canada, Joyceville Institution, Joyceville Penitentiary, Kingston, lockdown ended, visits resume, workplace health and safety issue

Joyceville Institution has resumed normal operations after the lockdown put in place last week has ended, according to the Correctional

Lockdown at Joyceville Institution due to ‘workplace health and safety issue’

March 5, 2020March 5, 2020 Tori Stafford 0 Comments Canada Labour Code, Employment and Social Development Canada, Joyceville, Joyceville Institution, Joyceville Penitentiary, Kingston, visits suspended, workplace health and safety issue

A lockdown has been put in place at Joyceville Institution, a medium-security correctional facility just east of Kingston on Highway

Opinion Politics

Our city’s homeless: Living as one, PiT counts, and public policy decisions

January 24, 2020January 28, 2020 Cliff Morton 0 Comments 10-year Municipal Housing and Homelessness Plan, City of Kingston, County of Frontenac, Employment and Social Development Canada, homeless crisis, homeless data, homeless statistics, homelessness, housing, Housing First Program (HFP), Kingston, living rough, Point in Time count (PiT), Rapid Re-Housing, recovery-oriented approach, shelters, transitional housing, unsheltered

… A brotherhood of man,Imagine all the people,Sharing all the world.You may say I’m a dreamer,But I’m not the only

Community Opinion

Homelessness in Kingston just the tip of the global ‘social crisis’ iceberg

December 10, 2019December 10, 2019 Cliff Morton 6 Comments affordable housing, Canadian Observatory on Homelessness, Employment and Social Development Canada, global homeless crisis, homelessness, homelessness in Canada, Kingston, living on the streets, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, temporary housing

Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his