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  • 2 days 22 hours ago

Residence dons seeking to unionize at Queen's

On March 15, United Steelworkers (USW) announced that Queen’s University residence dons filed an application to unionize on USW’s Instagram page .Continue...
  • 4 days 2 hours ago

Team OAK wins COMPSA executive election

The votes are in: Team OAK has been elected the new Computing Students Association (COMPSA) executive team.

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  • 6 days 5 hours ago

AMS to reassess Orientation budgeting process

In the last AMS Assembly , changes were brought forth to return the Orientation Roundtable (ORT) budgeting process to its pre-COVID state.Continue...
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Queen’s projects $43.9 million shortfall in student fee revenue

Queen’s overall revenue is anticipated to be $37.6 million lower than was outlined in the 2022-23 operating budget.Continue...
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Queen’s student petitions Canada amid human rights abuse in Iran

Queen’s Iranian student Niki Ehsan, ArtSci ’25, is petition ing the Government of Canada to label the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)—or “morality police”—as a terrorist entity.Continue...
  • 6 days 5 hours ago

KFL&A Public Health sees uptick in STI cases

Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox, and Addington (KFL&A) Public Health is seeing a “spike” in gonorrhea cases among post-secondary aged individuals, says Nicole Szumlanski, manager of the sexual health program at KFL&A Public Health.Continue...
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Queen’s alumni named ‘changemakers’ in sustainable future

Two Queen’s alumni, Chase Edgelow, BSc ’06, and Stephen Penstone, BSc ’15, were recognized as “changemakers” by The Globe and Mail on Feb 24.Continue...
  • 6 days 6 hours ago

Social Issues Commission adds braille to campus signage

To improve readability of building signs on campus for blind students, AMS Social Issues Commissioner (External) Dreyden George is introducing The Braille Project.Continue...
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Student Voices Week shines light on equity conversations

Conversations on equity were amplified this week on campus by Queen’s first in-person Student Voices Week.Continue...
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Queen’s Albert Street Residence named Endaayaan-Tkanónsote

Queen’s newest student residence, formerly known as Albert Street Residence, has been named Endaayaan–Tkanónsote to honour Indigenous histories, lands, and communities.Continue...
  • 6 days 6 hours ago

Science Formal raises funds for United Way KFL&A

Queen’s Science (Sci) Formal—run by the Engineering Society (EngSoc)—was back in-person at Grant Hall on March 11, in support of United Way Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox, and Addington (KFL&A) to provide monetary support to the Kingston community.Continue...
  • 1 week 6 days ago

External panel completes review of Queen’s sexual violence policy

21 recommendations have been made on the Queen’s sexual violence policy going into its triennial review.Continue...
  • 1 week 6 days ago

Prime Minister Trudeau and President of European Commission stop in Kingston

President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen visited Kingston’s Canadian Forces Base (CFB) on March 7. During her two-day visit to Canada, she was hosted by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and they both attended the CFB for a joint press conference.Continue...
  • 1 week 6 days ago

AMS Assembly discusses Black Student Clubs Caucus letter at AGM

At the AMS’s Annual General Meeting (AGM), members of the Black Clubs Caucus said the AMS doesn’t see them as a priority.Continue...
  • 1 week 6 days ago

U-Flourish research works to support student mental health

The U-Flourish Student Mental Health Research program is composed of researchers at Queen’s seeking to understand how to support students’ mental health and well-being.Continue...
  • 1 week 6 days ago

André Picard gives talk about health care at Queen’s

“Welcome, boomers. Let’s talk about health care,” is how award-winning journalist André Picard started his lecture, “Medicare 2050: Rebuilding the Health System for an Aging Society” on March 2 at Ellis Hall.Continue...
  • 1 week 6 days ago

Queen’s hosts OUSA General Assembly

Student policy makers replaced city councillors at City Hall on March 5 to plan the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance’s (OUSA) lobbying agenda for the 2023 year as part of OUSA’s General Assembly.Continue...
  • 1 week 6 days ago

Queen’s and Kingston support survivors of human trafficking

Kingston and its community partners unveiled a new protocol to address human trafficking in Kingston and surrounding areas on March 7 at City Hall.Continue...
  • 1 week 6 days ago

‘Journal’ staff win big at 2023 JHM awards

The Journal had five articles shortlisted and two winning pieces at the recent John H. MacDonald (JHM) Awards for Excellence in Student Journalism.Continue...
  • 1 week 6 days ago

Female leaders on breaking glass ceiling

Successful women at Queen’s gathered virtually on International Women’s Day on March 9 to discuss how they broke the glass ceiling and how other women can, too.Continue...

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