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Kingston Currents: November 30, 2023

In this episode of Kingston Currents, Christena will be discussing the final season full of exhibitions debuting tomorrow at the agnes etherington art centre before the construction of agnes re-imaginied begins. She also runs through some updates from the City of Kingston, Utilities Kingston, the Kingston Frontenac Public Library, and more.

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Kingston Currents: November 28, 2023

In this episode, we get into the new Community Standards Bylaw passed by Kingston City Council last week, an update on the closure of Queen’s Bader College campus with Vice-Provost Evans, and the walk-out held by Queen’s students last week in support of Palestine. We also run through some updates from the Kingston Frontenac Public […]

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Kingston Currents: November 21, 2023

In this episode of Kingston Currents, Christena Lawrie runs through what you need to know about the new Community Standards Bylaw which will be up for discussion at tonight’s city council meeting. Next, we sit down with Greg Tilson, Director of the Skeleton Park Arts Festival, to talk about their upcoming fundraiser to support the […]

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Abebe Alemu in the studio
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Abebe Alemu (Law) – Deaf Access to the Criminal Justice System in Ethiopia

The Ethiopian criminal justice system relies on spoken language and written communication for its day-to-day business. In principle, the system is supposed to serve everyone equally without any discrimination based on legally prohibited grounds. In Ethiopia, there are about 2.5 million Deaf and hard-of-hearing people most of whom rely on either sign language or other […]

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