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As part of its plan to stay open, the Ontario Government is investing $1,294,458 to support three surgical innovation fund projects in Kingston and Napanee hospitals. According to a release from Hastings-Lennox and Addington MPP Daryl Kramp’s office, this funding is part of the government’s expanded $86.2 million Surgical Innovation
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On Tuesday, May 3, 2022, Daryl Kramp, MPP for Hastings-Lennox and Addington, joined Enbridge Gas and Tyendinaga Mohawk Council to announce that approximately 126 homes and businesses in Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte First Nation will be able to connect to natural gas for the first time thanks to
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Findings from People for Education’s (PFE) 2021-22 Annual Ontario School Survey (AOSS): A Perfect Storm of Stress, show that there has been little or no respite for educators in the second year of the pandemic. The issues that students and educators were facing in 2020-21 remain relatively unchanged, and the
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On Monday, Apr. 25, 2022, MPP Daryl Kramp announced that Ontario is providing joint funding with the federal government for 62 projects to bring high-speed Internet access to thousands of households in Central Eastern Ontario, including 24 communities in Hastings-Lennox and Addington. The total public investment for this phase of
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Friendly Manor Nursing Home in Greater Napanee, near Deseronto, will be among three newly announced long-term care homes to be redeveloped beginning this fall. Provincial Minister of Long-Term Care Paul Calandra and Hastings-Lennox & Addington MPP Daryl Kramp visited Napanee’s Lennox and Addington County General Hospital (L&ACGH) to announce the
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To further support the province’s cautious easing of public health measures, the Ontario government is expanding access to free rapid testing kits to the general public for at-home use. As a result of the province’s direct procurement, the provincial government said that Ontario will be distributing five million rapid tests
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Ontario is providing close to $46 million to support 186 municipalities, Indigenous communities and non-profit tourism, culture, sport and recreation organizations experiencing significant pressures due to COVID-19. In Hastings-Lennox and Addington, Loyalist Township is receiving $243,100 and the Town of Bancroft is receiving $500,000 from the Province of Ontario Community
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After the provincial government announced a variety of changes with regard to COVID-19 Public Health regulations, Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) is addressing some of the changes that will be occurring at the local Assessment Centre here in Kingston. KHSC, which oversees the operations of a number of healthcare facilities
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As COVID-19 case counts for the Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington (KFL&A) region continue to climb, so too do the number of outbreaks locally. Between Friday, Dec. 3 and Monday, Dec. 6, 2021, KFL&A Public Health declared three outbreaks, bringing the current number of active COVID-19 outbreaks in the region
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At their last meeting, the Limestone District School Board (LDSB) Board of Trustees discussed and approved a motion regarding allowing staff to bring their face masks to work, providing those masks are approved by Health Canada. The previous Notice of Motion presented by Trustee Robin Hutcheon stated, “That Limestone District
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At the end of a combined nearly 10-hour meeting that took place over two evenings, Kingston City Council managed to approve several large healthcare expenditures, including funding for the Integrated Care Hub (ICH), recruitment of family doctors to Kingston, University Hospitals Kingston Foundation (UHKF) for the Kingston Health Sciences Centre
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With Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) preparing for the second phase of the redevelopment of Kingston General Hospital (KGH), Kingston City Council will discuss the what, why, when, how, and how much the City will contribute to the approximately $1 billion project. At their meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021,
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