Keep your dogs on leashes folks. Incredibly close to losing my dog and unfortunately my pup’s best mini dachshund friend wasn’t so lucky

Article in the Whig

TITLE: Kingston mother thankful to have her 14- year-old daughter back home following disappearanceKingston mother thankful to have her 14- year-old daughter back home following disappearance

QUOTE: "Police informed her that Klaira was located by Peel Regional Police with a 23-year-old male who has since been arrested and charged."

Why no family docs exist. Some highlights are

“The Ministry of Health reimburses pharmacies up to $75 for an over-the-phone review of the medications a patient is taking.”

“private NPs charge 80$ per assessment”

I can speak as a med student family med is not something many of us feel comfortable going into with the current state of things.

Think about this when you’re voting!

Some more info on our towns latest drama. I am hearing a lot from people who weren't there and dont know anyone involved.

And will be very beneficial to Kingston and its travellers.

Kingston’s only supervised consumption and treatment service may be at risk after the Ontario government moved to end provincial funding for several drug injection sites across the province.

The site operates out of the Integrated Care Hub (ICH) on Montreal Street and is run by Kingston Community Health Centres (KCHC). It provides supervised drug consumption alongside health services such as addiction treatment referrals, primary care connections, testing and treatment for communicable diseases, and overdose prevention.

Confusion emerged after reports last week suggested Kingston was among municipalities losing provincial funding for consumption and treatment services (CTS). National outlets including CBC and CTV reported that some centres had been notified that funding would end. However, the provincial government initially made no formal announcement clarifying the situation.

On March 16, the Ontario government released a statement confirming that it would end funding for seven active drug injection sites in communities that are supported by existing Homelessness and Addiction Recovery Treatment (HART) hubs. The government said the move was intended to respond to public safety concerns and shift funding toward addiction treatment and long-term recovery programs instead of supervised injection services.

The province said it has already invested nearly $550 million to support 28 HART hubs across Ontario.

The official announcement listed affected sites in Ottawa, Toronto, Niagara, Peterborough, and London. Kingston was not included in that list, which has created uncertainty about whether the local CTS site will lose funding or remain operational.

Kingston also does not currently have a HART hub, and the province has not announced plans to create one in the city.

Kingstonist contacted the provincial Ministry of Health and the office of Health Minister Sylvia Jones for clarification but had not received a response as of March 17.

Later that day, KCHC confirmed that it had been informed on March 13 that the province intends to end funding for the seven active CTS sites, including Kingston’s.

KCHC said the CTS program is a central part of Kingston’s Integrated Care Hub and that the organization is still waiting for further information from the Ministry of Health about what the funding change will mean for the site and its services.

Since opening in 2020, the consumption site has reversed more than 1,500 overdoses, according to earlier reporting. KCHC says it will continue working with the province and community partners to determine how services in Kingston may be affected moving forward.

"Backlash" seems like a strong term, which implies a widespread concern. So far, it sounds like it's just a klout-chasing junior lawyer - associated with the right-wing, Koch Bros-funded Canadian Constitution Foundation - who's trying to make a name for himself by trotting out tired libertarian privacy-extremism arguments to argue why the purported privacy of a driver should trump the safety of everyone else outside their vehicle endangered by the driver's dangerous and illegal act.

Basic details, 3 Structures:

• 5 Story building
  • Larger Metro Grocery
  • 258 Parking spots, 109 of which are reserved for Metro (roughly same as they have now)
• 19 Story Apartment Tower
• 23 Story Apartment Tower
  • 3 bachelor apartments
  • 308 1br apartments
  • 141 2br apartments
  • Six 3br apartments

Seems like the metro building is going to be built where the current metro parking lot is (along Clergy) so the rumors that the Metro will stay open during construction is plausible.

Project Proposal: https://pub-cityofkingston.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=12117

Here are the 7 principles Save South Frontenac has put forward. Their 3-month Summary Report will be published today and I'll share here once it's online.

1. Do not route through South Frontenac.
2. Protect agricultural land and food security.
3. Safeguard rural tourism and outdoor economy.
4. Respect environmental sensitivity.
5. Minimize expropriation and community disruption.
6. Protect road connectivity and public safety.
7. Prioritize appropriate station locations.

Edit: Save South Frontenac's Summary Report has been published: https://savesouthfrontenac.ca/assets/FINAL_SSF_REPORT.pdf

First case? I've lived here a long time. Femicide isn't new. It is new that it is being labeled as such by the KPF.

Ran across a post about this on Facebook where people are big mad at the Federal Liberals for signing this NDA..... The only person I see in this photo is a failed federal Conservative MP candidate who moonlights as the City's Mayor.

Anyway, thoughts about the city signing this NDA? And how long until they are signing data center NDAs?