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Your Kingston, Your News. YGK News is a news platform that aims to bridge the resident and student communities in Kingston, Ontario. We publish news, politics, business, editorials, lifestyle, and campus content. We try to branch out into new mediums as much as possible, including through photojournalism, videography, and radio. Since starting, several stories have been broken that have been..
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2d ago
Donald Abelson, McMaster University
It was snowing in Old Montréal when well over 1,000 people gathered in the neighbourhood’s historic and majestic Notre-Dame Basilica to pay their respects to Brian Mulroney, Canada’s 18th prime minister.
In the nine years that he held office — from 1984 to 1993 — Mulroney transformed Canada at home and abroad. As I took in this special and solemn occasion in Montréal, my mind was consumed with many things.
Mulroney was a prime minister with whom I worked closely for five years as the inaugural director of the Brian Mulroney Institute of Government at St. Fra ..read more
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2d ago
Queen’s is celebrating a record setting donation from this year’s student led Cure Cancer Classic.
The student organized fundraising initiative includes a number of flagship events, most notably the seventh annual Cure Cancer Classic rivalry hockey game between Engineering and Commerce students at Queen’s.
This year’s rivalry game was hosted at Slush Puppie Place on March 14, and the event raised $338,344 after a dollar-for-dollar match through the Canadian Cancer Society.
All-in-all, fundraising efforts throughout the 2023-24 school year resulted in a record breaking annual total of $624,103 ..read more
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Last week, the City of Kingston put out several statements regarding fire safety at the Belle Park Encampment.
Kingston Fire & Rescue gave out a number of Immediate Threat to Life (ITL) notices at Belle Park last week, including issuing four notices in just one day on March 21 for infractions including open air flames within tents.
On Friday night Kingston Fire & Rescue issued yet another ITL notice, this time with three people being transported to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Fire crews removed a ‘homemade appliance’ that was being used to burn charcoal inside a tent ..read more
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6d ago
Kingston Police have released a summary of actions taken from St. Patrick’s Day, and while a number of fines were handed out, many officers involved say it was one of the best in recent memory.
Kyle Compeau, Manager of Enforcement at the City of Kingston, credited the student engagement with police liaison teams and by-law officers for the relatively smooth affairs.
While there was still work to be done for officers, he said things were relatively tame in the grand scheme of things.
“Overall, we’re glad about how things went this weekend. We had a lot of compliance and did not have any se ..read more
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1w ago
A group of Queen’s biology students are working on a project to raise awareness about the negative impacts outdoor pet cats have on biodiversity in their area.
While many with pet cats think its relatively harmless to let them roam outside and come back, the students say that research makes clear the threat that cats have on birds and small animals in particular.
Inn Canada cats kill between 100 and 350 million birds a year, which is assumed to be the largest human-related impact on bird mortality, and 23 species have been put at-risk due to predation from cats.
Kerry Roe, one of the three stu ..read more
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1w ago
The Grad Club has launched an emergency fundraising campaign to combat multiple factors that the Board of Directors say are causing unprecedented financial hardship.
Like other small businesses in the country, The Grad Club is faced with the repayment of the CEBA loans that were acquired during the pandemic, and also needs to address a number of infrastructure issues that have arisen in the building.
This is coinciding with what the Board of Directors say is a 400% rent increase from the building’s landlord, Queen’s University.
Gabriella Castillo Raga, President of Queen’s Grad Club Board of D ..read more
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Starting April 2, the City of Kingston will be enforcing its Parks Use Bylaw (2009-76), meaning that tents and temporary shelters in parks must be disassembled before sunrise everyday and be erected no sooner than sundown.
In a release, the city says the work begins today in a “respectful, safe, and empathetic manner”, with bylaw officers handing out notices to those currently residing in the Belle Park encampment.
Commissioner, Infrastructure, Transportation and Emergency Services with the City of Kingston Brad Joyce acknowledged in the release that enforcement will cause strain on those livi ..read more
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2w ago
By: Nikhil Arora, Queen’s University, Ontario and Mark Richardson, Queen’s University, Ontario
On April 8, 2024, there will be a total solar eclipse in Canada. This is an opportunity to experience, learn from and participate in the excitement and wonder. And rather than hiding inside, researchers have been communicating how people can safely enjoy this unique opportunity.
Roughly every 18 months, the sun, moon and Earth come into perfect alignment and somewhere on Earth experiences a solar eclipse. During this phenomenon, the moon casts a roughly 250 km wide shadow onto Earth.
This ephemeral d ..read more
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2w ago
Kingston & the Islands NDP have nominated Daria Juüdi-Hope as their new federal candidate.
Juüdi-Hope is a Registered Nurse and educator with with experience at both St. Lawrence College and Queen’s University, she was announced as the new local candidate on Thursday night at Seaway Coworking.
She takes over Kingston’s NDP candidacy from Vic Sahai, who finished 2nd in the 2021 election with just over 29% of votes.
Juüdi-Hope said at a time of uncertainty for a lot of Canadians this can be a time for change, and she wants to help affect that change.
“It’s time for change, but we have to mak ..read more
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2w ago
Queen’s University has announced the appointment of Yanwen Zhang as the Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Impact of Radiation in Energy and Advanced Technologies.
Zhang comes to Queen’s as part of the CERC program, which was established in 2008 to help attract top tier researchers to Canadian institutions to improve Canada’s competitiveness on .
The federal government provides $8 million or $4 million grants to universities in an effort to recruit top researchers to Canada, Queen’s now has two for a total of $16 million – with Dr. Zhang joining Dr. Paul Kubes, who was appoin ..read more