Empty for the wrong reasons: A visual archive of Kingston’s COVID-19 encampment evictions

Contact tracing apps ‘fundamentally flawed’ for controlling COVID-19

December 11, 2020December 11, 2020 Kingstonist 0 Comments Aaron Bailey, City of Kingston, coronavirus, COVID-19, encampment evictions, government, homeless encampment, homelessness in Kingston, housing and homelessness, Kingston, opinion, pandemic, photo essay, politics, social housing, UN Protocol for Homeless Encampments, unhoused people, viral transmission

The following is a submitted Op/Ed photo essay. The views and opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of The Kingstonist. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated governmental failures to provide housing for all across Canada. Mounting rent burdens, the lifting of provincial eviction moratoriums, and the rollback of federal income

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July 9, 2020July 9, 2020 Samantha Butler-Hassan, Local Journalism Initiative 0 Comments Australia, Bluetooth, computer science, contact tracing apps, coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 exposure, David Skillicorn, Germany, government, Kingston, Kingston Frontenac Lennox and Addington Public Health (KFLA), outbreaks, phone apps, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Public Health, Queen's University, School of Computing, Singapore, technology

A computing expert from Queen’s University says mobile contact tracing apps simply aren’t useful for managing the spread of COVID-19. “The thing is, these just can’t work,” said David Skillicorn, a professor of computing at Queen’s University. Contact tracing apps use a phone’s Bluetooth mechanism to alert people when they’ve