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Progressive Conservative candidate Dr. John Rapin, who was a distant second in last night’s election, would have won in Kingston and the Islands were it not for party leader John Tory’s sabotage on the campaign trail, said Gareth Neilson, Rapin’s campaign office manager.

“If John Tory wasn’t the leader of this party, we would have won this riding. As a matter of fact, if John Tory hadn’t opened his fucking mouth, we would have won this riding.”Continue...

After four years as Ontario Premier, Dalton McGuinty has the challenge of convincing Canadians that he has done well and can make Ontario better. His track record includes the hiring of 8,000 new nurses, and the 1.3 million-square-kilometre Toronto region greenbelt among others.Continue...

More than 20,000 residents in Kingston don’t have a family doctor. For Progressive Conservative candidate Dr. John Rapin, this news is motivation to run for a seat in provincial legislature, representing Kingston and the Islands.Continue...

Freedom Party candidate Mark Fournier wasn’t originally going to run in Kingston and the Islands this provincial election.
Fournier received a call from Freedom Party leader Paul McKeever that convinced him to run.

The main issue he’s concerned with is abolishing the provincial income tax.Continue...

To Bridget Doherty, Green Party candidate for Kingston and the Islands, being a member of the provincial parliament (MPP) would mean more than an office in Queen’s Park. Her first task, if elected, would be to develop a relationship with other organizations and institutions in Kingston. Strong working relationships are necessary for improving the quality of life in Kingston for adults, seniors and kids, she said.Continue...

In recent years, the way people think about health care issues has shifted: There’s an increased emphasis on prevention, rather than solely finding a cure.

This shift, said Vice-Principal (Academic) Patrick Deane, aims to keep the general population as healthy as possible and minimize potential drains on the health-care system.Continue...

For the second year in a row, Aberdeen Street will be closed on Homecoming Saturday, but Kingston’s city council isn’t happy about it.

At Tuesday’s meeting, council voted unanimously to grant the AMS’ request to have the street barricaded at both ends from 8 p.m. Saturday to 4 a.m. Sunday morning.

Consensus didn’t come without a fight. The motion to allow the street closure was amended to include the proviso that a favourable vote doesn’t imply consent. The issue at the top of the minds of much of council was the strategy Queen’s and the AMS would adopt to end parties on Aberdeen Street altogether.Continue...

After researching proportional representation for a group project in a second-year politics class, Luke Field, ArtSci ’08, came to a clear decision.
For most students, a well-written paper stating that point may have been the end of the matter. But when he heard about the Citizens’ Assembly and the potential for electoral reform in Ontario, Field decided he couldn’t stay quiet on the issue.Continue...

This winter a Queen’s alumnus and Emmy Award winner will be teaching a film class at Queen’s.

Peter Raymont, ArtSci ’71, directed Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire. Along with another film about the genocide in Rwanda, God Sleeps in Rwanda, Raymont’s film was named best documentary at the 2007 News and Documentary Emmy Awards last week.Continue...