Finding equity in Athletics and Recreation

Women’s Basketball just returned from their second ever—and second consecutive—appearance at nationals. However, their progress as a team these past two years goes far beyond the medals they’ve earned. 
March 10, 2023

‘I’m stuck in a rut and can’t get out of it’: The Kingston housing crisis

Kingston resident Brian Geddes “has not had a locked door behind [him]” for the past three years.
January 27, 2023

Kingston wants to become the re-birthplace of psychedelics

A new frontier in mental health treatment is emerging in Kingston, centred around a class of drugs once considered almost too taboo to research. 
January 20, 2023

Demystifying Queen’s alumni network

Being a member of the Queen’s community doesn’t end upon graduation. Rather, you’ve entered the next phase of your career as a Queen’s alum.

Winter holidays at Queen’s

November 18, 2022
Professors are wrapping up their lectures, and students are rushing towards the end of their semester with the holiday fervor hovering in the background.
Eight years ago, Dr. Anna Gunz, a pediatric intensivist in London, saw her first patient who was impacted by climate change.
According to experts at Queen’s, sexual health is an individualized process that goes beyond STIs and is something students should care about.
Aileen Stewart, a deathcare guide in Kingston, told The Journal she got into the business of deathcare through her daughter, who was training to be a midwife at the time.
This article discusses anti-Indigenous racism and the atrocities committed in Residential Schools and may be triggering for some readers.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, communities have pushed local food sourcing and systems in anticipation for any affairs that may cause another food shortage.
Queen’s prides itself on being one of the top research universities in Canada, founded on Oct. 16 1841 and predating confederation
In the late winter of 2007, Blair Frost made his way from his small coastal hometown of Yarmouth, N.S., to Kingston.
When Sam Zhang, graduating CÉGEP student, found out he was accepted to the Commerce program at Queen’s, he was thrilled.
Kingston resident Alex Haagaard first began seeking out medical gender transition in early 2021.  
The use of chemicals and potentially toxic makeup to meet societal expectations of beauty isn’t a new phenomenon. 
In 1989, a report called for Queen’s to implement a sexual assault centre on campus. The same recommendation was suggested in 2015. In 2020, it still hasn’t happened.
Student-athletes are immensely privileged—they have access to cutting-edge training equipment and techniques, advanced sports medicine, tutors, and alumni networks. But while the ‘student’ and the ‘athlete’ are accounted for, the person can often be forgotten. 
Queen’s has at least 11 alumni above the senior vice-president level at eight of Canada’s 10 largest fossil fuel companies, a The Journal inquriy has found. 
Every year, the principal of Queen’s University loses 1,800 sugar cookies to Stauffer Library. 
When Queen’s passed a new responsible investment policy in 2017, it promised to publish its complete holdings across all portfolios. In the following two years, it didn’t.
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