Category: The Scoop!

This week on The Scoop, join CFRC Broadcast Journalist Karim Mosna, and Arts News Coordinator Christena Lawrie. Karim will share details from the recent special council meeting on the encampment protocol. Christena will feature interviews from the local arts community including coverage of Artfest.    

In this segment, Alex sits down with David Harder, Founder and Co-CEO at Atma Journey Centers to discuss the Psychedelic Medicine Global Conference taking place at Queen’s University from May 20-22 2022. Learn more about the conference and what to expect. Buy your tickets by clicking here!

Karim Mosna covered Science Rendezvous Kingston where he spoke with founder Dr. Lynda Colgan, as well as several student and faculty representatives from various Queen’s departments including: Mechanical Engineering, Space Engineering and Psychology. He also sat down with Janice Hill, the Associate Vice-Principal of Indigenous Initiatives and Reconciliation at Queens to talk about Red Dress […]

The 2022 Ontario general election will be held on June 2, 2022, to elect Members of the Provincial Parliament to serve among the 124 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. In the meantime, candidates across the province have begun campaigning in their respective ridings for their respective parties and their doing so in a […]

On Wednesday April 13th, the Bank of Canada announced that it would raise the benchmark interest rate to 1 percent, meaning it has risen by half a percentage point.  The Bank of Canada’s interest rate impacts Canadians and businesses because it influences the rates paid and received on savings accounts, mortgages, GICs, etc. With Canada […]

In this segment of The Scoop, Taylor is joined once again by PSAC 901 president Astrid Hobill to talk the union’s strike mandate vote outcome, and the subsequent agreement reached with Queen’s.

On Tuesday February 15th 2022, Queen’s University Principal and Vice-Chancellor Patrick Deane announced the formation of a task force that will see university and local community partners work together to find new approaches to address large unsanctioned gatherings in the University District.   In this episode, Principal Deane joins CFRC to discuss Kingston community and stakeholder […]

As of February 4th, 2022 with Freedom Convoy organizers vowing to stay in Ottawa, and more people scheduled to roll into town to join the demonstration, some leaders are calling for increased measures-including calling in the Canadian Armed Forces to protect the neighbourhoods and residents. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said using the military to […]

On January 26th, in spite of much speculation that the Bank of Canada would be hiking interest rates, the Bank instead held the overnight rate at its current .25 percent. Like other central banks globally, the bank of Canada slashed its core lending rate  in March 2020 at the beginning of the COVID 19 pandemic, […]

On January 14th, 2022 Queen’s University announced a new study, being led by Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) and Queen’s that is looking to find answers to the question of access to urgent medical care equipment in remote communities through the use of a portable MRI, a brand new technology now available in Canada. Developed […]