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• Heat awareness advocates press Kingston to expand tenant protections during sweltering summer

  15-07-2026 22:27 via thewhig.com
  
  Climate advocates, physicians, public health officials and a city councillor used Extreme Heat Awareness Day on Wednesday to press Kingston to adopt stronger protections for renters, arguing that dangerously hot apartments are becoming an increasingly urgent public health issue as heat waves grow more frequent and severe.At a press conference organized by Seniors for Climate Action Now (SCAN) at Kingston City Hall, speakers called on the city to move beyond recent pilot initiatives and enact a
  
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• ENT: Festival marks five years celebrating 'analog traditions'

  15-07-2026 21:27 via thewhig.com
  
  Even though her maternity leave started a few weeks ago, Laura Kelly still has a few items left to check off on her to-do list.“I’m seven months pregnant right now,” Kelly said before she made her way to a doctor appointment Wednesday morning. “I know it’s kind of crazy organizing a festival at this moment.”That festival is the Analogue Island Music Festival, which takes place from Friday to Sunday at the Hotel Wolfe Island. The three-day events blends film,
  
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• Complainant's testimony about car crash sparks courtroom dispute over police investigation at Haaima trial

  15-07-2026 21:10 via thewhig.com
  
  A complainant’s account of fleeing the scene of a motor vehicle collision after Michael Haaima allegedly told her he did not want to be “caught with an underage girl” triggered an unusual legal battle on Monday over whether police investigators should continue gathering evidence while a criminal trial is underway.The dispute erupted after Kingston Police Detective Jesse Braun used the lunch recess to verify the woman’s testimony, locating a collision report and Highway T
  
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• Rural politicians, groups worry about effect of Kingston's Alto NDA

  15-07-2026 20:27 via thewhig.com
  
  KINGSTON — Municipal politicians and community groups around the Kingston area are calling for the city to be open about any discussions it has with Alto.On Friday, Kingston and the Crown corporation developing a high-speed rail project between Toronto and Quebec City signed a non-disclosure agreement that is to govern talks between the two.Alto is considering the addition of a Kingston station to the route, something the city has been pushing for since the project’s study corridor
  
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• Kingston ranks as Canada's eighth most expensive rental market

  15-07-2026 20:09 via thewhig.com
  
  Kingston remains one of Canada’s most expensive places to rent, according to the latest national data from Zumper , an online rental marketplace that analyzes rental data from hundreds of thousands of active listings across the country.Vancouver, Burnaby, B.C., and Toronto remained Canada’s three most expensive rental markets last month, while Kingston ranked eighth nationwide for average asking rent price.The data revealed that median asking rents in Kingston reached $1,800 for a o
  
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• People urged to stay indoors as wildfire smoke descends on Kingston region

  15-07-2026 16:45 via thewhig.com
  
  KINGSTON — Much of Ontario is experiencing poor air quality this morning, as smoke makes its way from wildfires in northwestern Ontario into the Kingston region.Environment and Climate Change Canada has added a yellow warning for air quality , on top of the yellow warning for heat that it issued earlier this week and that continues today.The Air Quality Ontario website , run by the Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks for the government of Ontario, placed a level 4 air qual
  
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