Kingston City Councillors Jim Neill (Williamsville District), Mary Rita Holland (Kingscourt-Rideau District) and Robert Kiley (Trillium District) drop by the virtual studio in this episode with guest host, Dinah Jansen. In this episode, the council members discuss the Ontario Government’s Oct. 20th 2020 amendment to the 1996 Municipal Elections Act, legislation that removes the framework […]
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Happy Halloween! It’s spooky season, and with spooky season comes all our favourite movies about witches (anyone else a Twitches fan?). This week’s episode is for all of you that want to know why witches aren’t just all spooky pointy hats and old ugly villains trying to steal your youth. Come listen to Jacqueline and […]
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In this episode of Today in YGK, Alexandra sits down with Sadaf Amini, a local Kingston musician who specializes in playing the Santur. Also a finalist of the YGK Emerging Musician Competition, she has an upcoming performance at the Elm Cafe Open Mic Night in partnership with the Skeleton Park Arts Festival that you can […]
Continue ReadingIn this week’s episode of Today in YGK, Alexandra sits down with Harshavardhan Thyagarajan, a graduate student of Queen’s University, to talk about Queen’s International Graduate Students losing their teaching assistant positions due to the fact that they do not reside in the country during this pandemic, which is posing a lot of difficulty.
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Pamela Dickey Young, Professor in the School of Religion at Queen’s University joins us for this segment. Young discusses Pope Francis’ watershed endorsement on same-sex civil unions, an endorsement that emerged on October 21 2020 in the debut of Evgeny Afineevsky’s documentary Francesco at the Rome Film Festival. Young fills in details about official teachings […]
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Professor David Skillicorn, Professor in the School of Computing at Queen’s University joins us in this segment. Dr. Skillicorn discusses the province’s announcement on Tuesday October 20th that it will launch a new ‘digital wallet’ plan to move provincial identifications and services onto a cellular virtual platform. He highlights anticipated issues as 25% of Canadian […]
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In this episode of Campus Beat, we are joined by Dr. Mark Walters, Dean and Professor of Law in the Faculty of Law at Queen’s University. We discuss the motivations and recommendations made to remove Canada’s first Prime Minister, Sir John A. MacDonald’s name from the law school’s building at Queen’s. Mark sheds light on […]
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Here’s your CFRC Daily News Brief for Friday, October 23, 2020! As of today in the KFL&A region there are 6 active cases of COVID-19, with 2 young men having tested positive over the past 24 hours. Please remember to continue with preventative measures and get tested if you display any symptoms. On Wednesday evening, […]
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This week we take a hard look at that oft forgotten prairie province: Saskatchewan. We go over The Skatch’s political history, look at their current election, and marvel at their low-tier-UFC-fighter-esque names. We also return to the Mi’kmaq and the fresh horrors being visited upon them, and spitball a new title for the Queen’s Law […]
Continue ReadingHere’s your CFRC Daily News Brief for Thursday, October 22 2020! In the KFLA region, there are now 7 active COVID cases, 167 cases resolved and a total of 174 cases. Two males in their 20’s have tested positive for the virus. The assessment centre at the Beechgrove Complex is open from 9 am to […]
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