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‘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.Continue...

Student drinking habits and Canada’s new guidelines

Even one drink a week could harm your health, the Canadian Center on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) declared on Jan. 17.Continue...

Inside the Black Studies Program

“The category of Blackness and Black Studies has an inherent hybridity to it because the onslaught of colonialism and the transatlantic slave trade touched every single aspect of the lives of the people of African descent. Every single aspect,” Jennifer S. Leath, assistant professor for the School of Religion, said in an interview with The Journal. Continue...

Something borrowed, something red, yellow, and blue: Discovering Queen’s weddings

‘ Be my valentine’, turns into ‘be my bride’ when planning a Queen’s-themed wedding to commemorate your undergraduate relationship.Continue...

How artistic power is fuelling resilience

For Dr. Juliane Okot Bitek of the Queen’s English department, art is inherently political.Continue...

Battle of the bands: Unpacking Kingston-born bands

There’s a classic pub on Princess St., around the corner from the late-night 7-Eleven. You might know it: The Mansion.Continue...

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.

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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.Continue...

Student side hustles that give back

In May 2021, Maddie Wright, ArtSci ’23, was looking for a way to make some extra money in her first year of university.Continue...

Investigating the unpaid labour behind club leadership

There are roughly 300 clubs here at Queen’s, each of them run by presidents, executives, directors, or other leaders of varying titles.

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Winter holidays at Queen’s

Professors are wrapping up their lectures, and students are rushing towards the end of their semester with the holiday fervor hovering in the background.Continue...

The relationship between climate change and human health

Eight years ago, Dr. Anna Gunz, a pediatric intensivist in London, saw her first patient who was impacted by climate change.Continue...

Sexual health, Kingston, and Queen’s

According to experts at Queen’s, sexual health is an individualized process that goes beyond STIs and is something students should care about.Continue...

‘I imagine we die in the same way we live’: Investigating deathcare in Kingston

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.Continue...

Transforming Indigenous healthcare, one person at a time

This article discusses anti-Indigenous racism and the atrocities committed in Residential Schools and may be triggering for some readers. Continue...

A critical look into Queen’s dining

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, communities have pushed local food sourcing and systems in anticipation for any affairs that may cause another food shortage.Continue...

Queen’s reputation, on the classroom level

Queen’s prides itself on being one of the top research universities in Canada, founded on Oct. 16 1841 and predating confederationContinue...

For students living with disabilities, self-advocacy is key

When Madia McGowan, ArtSci ’24, arrived at Queen’s in 2020, she saw it as a “big adjustment”—but not in the way most students do. It’s not unusual for incoming students to see the shift to university as a turning point in their lives, but for McGowan, who was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease when she was 10 years old, that transition symbolized something more.Continue...

Places of comfort at Queen's

Approximately 95 per cent of Queen’s students come from an area outside of Kingston, with more than 90 per cent of first-year students living in residence.Continue...

Kingston needs more family doctors, but where are they?

In the late winter of 2007, Blair Frost made his way from his small coastal hometown of Yarmouth, N.S., to Kingston.Continue...

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