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Students of LaSalle Secondary School’s grade nine drama class are stepping beyond the stereotypical curriculum of Shakespeare to study a work by Curve Lake First Nation playwright Drew Hayden Taylor. The choice to study an Ojibwe writer is a “response to the TRC (Truth and Reconciliation Commission) Call to Action
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The following is a submitted Op/Ed, with an explanatory foreword by the author, followed by excerpts from an interview between the author, a Queen’s University Professor, and some of her students. The views and opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of Kingstonist. While it may be willful thinking that
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Students will be returning to in-class learning on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022, only two days later than previously scheduled, announced Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health (CMOH), Dr. Kieran Moore, in an online press conference this afternoon. This, along with several changes to testing and isolation guidelines, were the main
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Queen’s University has communicated with faculty and staff that it will be transitioning most Winter 2022 academic activities to remote delivery. This method will remain until the end of the scheduled reading week, on Monday, Feb. 28, 2022, according to an email sent to all faculty and staff at the
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The Royal Military College (RMC) is planning a full return to in-person classes for its undergraduate student population by January 2022. This information comes after months of near-silence from military university, who were unable to respond to media inquires during the beginning of the 2021-2022 school year. This was due
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As some doors close, others will open in Kingston’s University District this week, as students prepare to attend classrooms and lecture halls in the wake of Kingston Police dispersing a 2,000-person illegal street party on University Avenue, which subsequently resulted in the closure of Gord Edgar Downie Pier and the
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On Thursday, Jul. 8, 2021, Queen’s University announced their plans to move back to in-person classes and activities on campus through the announcement of a new website outlining the University’s “Reopening Framework.” Notably missing from the new website, which is designed to ease the return of in-person, on-campus activities, is
Read more Queen’s University is planning to reopen with in-person activities on campus this fall. Ahead of the fall term, Queen’s has launched a new website outlining its ongoing planning and preparations for the safe return of students, faculty, and staff to in-person activities on campus. According to a media release from the institution,
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Hard capped classes of 20, increased access to special education and mental health professionals, and a promise to match the over $500 million that’s already been invested by the federal government to improve school ventilation — these were the top promises made by Ontario Liberal Leader Steven del Duca laid
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It may be entirely different than most starts to the school year, but the cadets at the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC) here in Kingston are persevering, getting the year off to a successful start. Not only is RMC dealing with the current COVID-19 pandemic like schools around the
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With the 2020-2021 school year fast approaching, and with new information coming out daily on what the different models of curriculum delivery will look like, we want to hear from those in Kingston and the area about the decisions they’ve made with regard to their children for the upcoming school
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Queen’s University has confirmed that up to 2,300 students will be able to live in on-campus residences this fall, while maintaining compliance with physical distancing and public health requirements. “This is approximately 50 per cent of our normal capacity, therefore not every first-year student will be able to live in
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