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Kingston’s municipal election: Meadowbrook-Strathcona (opens the original)
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Editor’s note: As Kingstonians prepare to head to the polls for Ontario’s municipal elections on Monday, Oct. 26, The Whig today begins its coverage. Over the next three weeks, we will offer sweeping coverage and analysis of the candidates vying to become our civic leaders and the issues facing our city and region. In no particular order, we begin with Elliot Ferguson’s look at the candidates seeking election in Meadowbrook-Strathcona District. Cost of living tops the issues on voters minds in t
Kingston farm family says city councillor sent ‘inappropriate’ material about elderly father (opens the original)
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KINGSTON — A long-time city councillor is being criticized for “threatening” correspondence sent to a west-end land owner earlier this year. In March, Collins-Bayridge Dist. Coun. Lisa Osanic, who is seeking her fifth term on city council in next month’s election, was lobbying to prevent the cutting down of woodlots on a property on the south side of Taylor-Kidd Boulevard. She delivered a letter to farmer Michael Robinson, who cleared the land for farm operations. In her letter, Osanic asked Rob
Kingston Islamic community calls out city council candidate for ‘Islamophobia’ (opens the original)
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KINGSTON — Municipal council candidates are being called on to condemn the campaign platform of a candidate that some have labelled hateful and racist. On Monday night, the four mayoral candidates were asked by a member of the local Islamic community for their responses to campaign material published by a west-end candidate. “A candidate in this municipal election is using Islamophobic rhetoric as a major part of his platform," Sabena Islam said at the mayor debate. “Some of these tropes were in
Kingston releases text of non-disclosure agreement with Alto (opens the original)
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The City of Kingston released thetext of the non-disclosure agreement it signed in July with Alto. In response to a freedom of information request filed by The Whig-Standard, the city provided the six-page document late Friday afternoon. The agreement makes confidential all information shared between the city and the Crown corporation including what was shared prior to the document's signing. The agreement's term include the city's elected councillors. The agreement is to be in place for five ye
Kingston city council’s closed meetings were valid, investigator report says (opens the original)
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A pair of city council meetings in 2024 and 2025 did not violate the Municipal Act, according to a council report. City council met behind closed doors on Aug. 13, 2024, and Oct. 21, 2025, to discuss the proposed creation of a municipal services corporation to oversee water and wastewater services. Complaints to the city’s closed meeting investigator raised “substantive and procedural concerns” about the meetings and how much information about what was discussed was made public. But a report fro
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