Faith Development Day
On September 25, the entire staff community of Holy Cross Catholic Separate School spent a day together at Camden Braes Golf & Country Club reflecting on Pope Francis’...
Proclamation of Social Justice Vigil Recognition Day
September 17, 2015 will be Social Justice Vigil Recognition Day in Kingston. Here's the proclamation which was passed unanimously by Kingston City Council in mid-July....
The beginnings: Sister Shirley Morris looks back
1995: Two Sisters hold up a sign they had just made at the planning meeting for the first vigilBY SISTER SHIRLEY MORRIS, SP As a Sister of Providence, I would like to...
Stop Hydro privatization: A poverty perspective
Photo courtesy of CUPEThe headline of a recent web post from northern Ontario by Mike Balkwill, provincial organizer for Put Food in the Budget, reads: Privatizing Hydro is...
Changing Workplaces Review submission
Presentation to Ontario Ministry of Labour Public Consultations on the Changing Nature of the Modern Workplace Kingston, July 28, 2015 Tara Kainer, Justice, Peace &...
Jobs, Justice, Climate March
Tara Kainer of our Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation office joined more than 10,000 social justice advocates, students, workers, faith communities, Aboriginal peoples...
After 20 years, the vigil will end on September 17
Vigil from around 2001 with the since-deceased Sr. Mary Hamilton sitting down on the job.BY JAMIE SWIFT And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will...
#FridayVigil July 3: Talking to police
Today the #FridayVigil vigil keepers arrived to find a long line of police vans in front of Kingston city hall. Turns out they were police from Toronto, OPP, Halton and...
Dr. Danielle Martin on basic income
Dr. Danielle Martin in Kingston, May 2015BY JAMIE SWIFT A virus. One of those nasty bugs that’s hard to shake, immune to antibiotics. Sometimes a virus can spread like a...
It’s time for basic income guarantee
BY JAMIE SWIFT The world’s richest man is a chubby sort of chap by the name of Slim. If he spent his money at the rate of a million dollars a day, it would take Mexican...