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• Private health-care clinics leading to inequality of access, CUPE says

  16-06-2025 21:15 via thewhig.com
  KINGSTON — Five years of increased government funding of private health care has increased the inequality of access for cataract surgery, according to Canada’s largest public sector union. And the Canadian Union of Public Employees’ Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU-CUPE) said the government’s plans to expand private surgeries is part of an effort to privatize the province’s health-care system. “This is this is deeply concerning because the Ontario gove
  
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• Witness denies 'deep dive' on media stories of Haaima's sexual-assault charges ahead of OPP interview

  16-06-2025 21:07 via thewhig.com
  A Kingston woman who had been contacted by an Ontario Provincial Police detective about the investigation into alleged sexual predator Michael Haaima testified on Monday that she had read multiple online articles about the charges already laid against him in advance of her interview. In her cross-examination of the witness, Haaima’s lawyer, Natasha Calvinho, teased out the possibility of the woman being influenced by the media coverage of his charges and alleged crimes before giving her st
  
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• Author Margaret Atwood coming to Kingston in August

  16-06-2025 20:53 via thewhig.com
  One of Canada’s best-known authors will be visiting Kingston in August to kick off the city’s resuscitated writers festival. Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid’s Tale, Alias Grace, and Cat’s Eye, will be in conversation Sunday, Aug. 24, at the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts. “A Word after a Word after a Word is Power” — a line from Atwood’s poem “Spelling” and also the title of a documentary about her — will see
  
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• SIU investigation clears three Kingston Police officers from criminal offences

  16-06-2025 17:50 via thewhig.com
  Three Kingston Police officers involved in a serious arrest in February have been cleared of all charges, according to the Special Investigations Unit. The SIU is called in when there have been incidents involving an official that have resulted in death, serious injury, the discharge of a firearm at a person or an allegation of sexual assault. The events leading up to this SIU investigation stem from an alleged stolen vehicle complaint in Kingston. At about noon on Feb. 17, 2025, Kingston Police
  
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• Kingston city councillor 'ambushed' by colleagues' name change motion

  16-06-2025 17:34 via thewhig.com
  KINGSTON — The city councillor whose district includes Indian Road said he was “politically ambushed” by another councillor’s motion to rename the street and a pair of parkettes. King’s Town Dist. Coun. Greg Ridge authored a motion calling for the name change to be considered at Tuesday night’s meeting. The motion was seconded by Lakeside District Coun. Wendy Stephen. In an email to The Whig-Standard and an open letter to his constituents on Indian Road,&
  
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• A year after report's release, women veterans say fight for support, recognition is only beginning

  16-06-2025 16:13 via thewhig.com
  On June 12, 2024, the House of Commons Veterans Affairs Committee released Invisible No More, a report detailing the systemic discrimination, abuse and neglect faced by Canadian women veterans during and after their service. Based on testimony from nearly 100 individuals, the report highlights survivors’ struggles to gain recognition and support from Veterans Affairs Canada. “June 12 is now an anniversary of the tabling at the first ever study done by Parliament on the experiences of
  
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• Kingston Pride Parade draws thousands to Confederation Park

  16-06-2025 14:02 via thewhig.com
  The 36th annual Kingston Pride Parade was right on schedule, starting at noon, at the Kingston Memorial Centre on Saturday, June 14. It began with hundreds of participants when it rolled down York Street, but as it continued, many more joined along the parade route. The number of people marching grew to nearly 2,000 by the time it reached Ontario Street.Bee Dupuis has been involved with Kingston Pride since 2023 and is now its chair. “To me, being chair of Kingston Pride means being a beac
  
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• Strawberries return to Wynn Farms in Bath for the first time in nearly two decades

  16-06-2025 13:26 via thewhig.com
  Maybe you’ve picked apples, harvested some sunflowers or just stopped by for an ice cream at Wynn Farms on Hwy. 33 in Greater Napanee, 12 kilometres west of Bath, but when was the last time you were able to purchase or pick your own strawberries from this iconic generational farm?
    That answer would be 17 years ago, if at all.
    According to Sarah Wynn, current owner along with her husband, Jim, there was a time when the farm was so busy with cash crops, it was proving difficult
  
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• Kingston Fortifications National Historic Site - Parks Canada

  16-06-2025 09:00 via news.google.com
  Kingston Fortifications National Historic Site  Parks Canada
  
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