Kingston Transit offers opt-in semester passes for post-secondary students

August 14, 2020August 14, 2020 Jessica Foley 0 Comments 2020-2021 school year, Councillor Peter Stroud, Councillor Simon Chapelle, Jeremy DaCosta, Kingston City Council, Kingston Transit, Kingston Transit passes, mandatory student fees, opt-in student transit passes, post-secondary students, Queen's Alma Mater Society (AMS), Queen's University, St. Lawrence College, St. Lawrence College Student Association, student fees, student transportation passes

Post-secondary students have the option to purchase a Kingston Transit student pass for the fall semester, after the universal ridership

Community Crime News

Frontline workers look to City for funding amid high sexual violence case numbers

June 15, 2020June 16, 2020 Jemma Dooreleyers 0 Comments Brea Hutchinson, Chance MacDonald, City of Kingston, Constable Ash Gutheinz, counselling, COVID-19, funding, Justice Allan Letourneau, Kingston, Kingston Police, Mayor Bryan Paterson, Me Too movement, MeToo, municipal funding, Queen's University, SAC Kingston, sex crimes, sexual assault, Sexual Assault Centre Kingston, sexual violence, St. Lawrence College, Statistics Canada

It’s been three years since Kingston Judge, Justice Allan Letourneau, delayed Chance MacDonald’s sentence so that he could finish his

News

City receives $633,000 to support diversified work places

June 10, 2020June 10, 2020 Samantha Butler-Hassan 0 Comments City of Kingston, Craig Desjardins, diversified workplaces, Future Skills Centre, Government of Canada, Indigenous people, KEYS Job Centre, Kingston Economic Recovery Team, Mayor Bryan Paterson, people with disabilities, racialized people, St. Lawrence College

The City of Kingston has received $633,000 from the Future Skills Centre, a research consortium funded by the Government of

Art Community Culture Dance News

Street Ballerina Performance Art Project says thank you to frontline workers

June 4, 2020June 4, 2020 Jessica Foley 2 Comments Annette Willis, art project, ballerinas, Ballet, Chasing Lightning Bugs Studio, COVID-19, dance, dancers, essential workers, frontline healthcare workers, healthcare workers, Kingston, Mark Aiden Bergin, pandemic, photography, posters, St. Lawrence College, Street Ballerina Performance Art Project, thank you

Mark Aiden Bergin is the creative force behind the Street Ballerina Performance Art Project. He is a local dance, theatre

City News

Kingston Transit terminates bus pass agreement with Queen’s, SLC

June 1, 2020June 1, 2020 Samantha Butler-Hassan 0 Comments 2020-2021 school year, agreements, City of Kingston, contracts, COVID-19, free bus passes, Jeremy DaCosta, Kingston, Kingston Transit, online classes, post-secondary institutions, Queen's University, St. Lawrence College, students

Editorial note: The original headline of this article stated that Kingston Tranist is terminating it’s contracts with Queen’s and SLC

City News

Air Canada’s Kingston flights delayed until September 2020

May 28, 2020May 28, 2020 Tori Stafford 0 Comments Air Canada, Air Canada flights, Aron Winterstein, cleaning, faculty, fall semseter, fall term, flights suspended, Kingston, Kingston airport, Norman Rogers Airport, orientation, physical distancing, post-secondary schools, Queen's University, queuing, return-to-service, Royal Military College of Canada (RMC), sanitizing, September 8 2020, social distancing, St. Lawrence College, students

Despite an earlier announcement that Air Canada flights would resume in Kingston in June of 2020, the date for the

Campus News

SLC: 20-25 per cent of student body may be on campus for fall 2020

May 15, 2020May 15, 2020 Tori Stafford 0 Comments campus, coronavirus, COVID-19, Fall Semester, fall term, Glenn Vollebregt, health sciences, in-person classes, Kingston, on-campus program delivery, online classes, online program delivery, pandemic, physical distancing, physical space, post secondary education, school, St. Lawrence College, virtual classes

St. Lawrence College (SLC) announced that planning for the 2020 fall term has begun and revealed some of those plans

Campus News

SLC directing staff to work from home, limiting entrance to college

March 16, 2020March 16, 2020 Tori Stafford 0 Comments 2019 novel coronavirus, coronavirus, COVID-19, Glenn Vollebregt, Kingston, limited entrance to campus, residence, St. Lawrence campus, St. Lawrence College, student placements, work from home

As businesses, organizations and institutions continue to respond to the concerted effort to stop the spread of coronavirus COVID-19, St.

Campus News

St. Lawrence College suspends classes amid COVID-19 concerns

March 13, 2020March 13, 2020 Tori Stafford 0 Comments classes suspended, coronavirus, COVID-19, Glenn Vollebregt, in-person classes, Kingston, St. Lawrence College

On Friday, Mar. 13, 2020, St. Lawrence College announced it will suspend all in-person classes for one week beginning on

Health News

Kingston sees numerous cancellations and closures due to COVID-19 concerns

March 12, 2020June 3, 2020 Tori Stafford 4 Comments 2019 novel coronavirus, 2019-nCoV, cancelled events, City of Kingston, coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 cases, Dr. David Walker, elderly, Faculty of Health Sciences, health care system, Kingston, Kingston Frontenac Lennox and Addington Public Health (KFLA), Next Gen Masquerade, pandemic, Queen's University, seniors, St. Lawrence College, St. Patrick's Day, Suzette Taggart, United Way of Kingston Frontenac Lennox and Addington (KFLA), Utilities Kingston, virus

For information on cancelled elementary and secondary schools across the province, see: https://www.kingstonist.com/news/provincial-government-cancelling-two-weeks-of-school-due-to-covid-19/ Although Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington (KFL&A)

News

Hall Monitor: Transit Trees

December 18, 2019December 18, 2019 Tommy Vallier 0 Comments budget, City Council, Davis Tannery, downtown Kingston, hall monitor, Jay Patry Enterprises, kingston city budget, Kingston City Council, Kingston City Hall, Kingston Transit, Kingston Transit routes, St. Lawrence College, ygkc

On Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2019, Kingston City Council sat for meeting number 2020-03 (agenda) and their last meeting of the

News

Pewter ornament collection to go on sale beginning next week

November 12, 2019November 12, 2019 Tori Stafford 0 Comments Coffee Way Donuts, Douglas Library, Downtown Kingston Business Improvement Area (BIA), Fairfield House, holidays, Kingston, Leon's Centre, Newcourt House, pewter collectibles, pewter keychain, pewter ornaments, Queen's University, Reid and Ben, Royal Kingston Curling Club, St. Lawrence College, The Grand Theatre, The Pilot House, Visitor Information Centre

It wouldn’t be the holidays in Kingston without the release of the Downtown Kingston Business Improvement Area (BIA)’s pewter ornament

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