Politics

Evaluate policies, not bodies

Press coverage dedicated to politicians’ appearances and personalities is diverting focus from the discussion of policies and legitimate concerns.Continue...

Life after Gerretsen

With the nomination period for the Oct. 27 municipal election closed, six Kingstonians have put their names in the hat for the mayoral race.Continue...

Education ignored

Let’s face it — politics in Ontario isn’t sexy.Continue...

Wynne flops Reddit AMA

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne’s Reddit AMA was a failure. It isn’t clear whether arrogance, incompetence or a combination of both produced this result.Continue...

Don’t silence Canadian science

The Canadian standard of living is, in large part, the result of scientific discovery and technological innovation. Every Canadian has a vested interest in the well-being of public science, which directly affects our health, our environment and our economic development.

As such, every Canadian should be deeply troubled by the current federal government's abandonment of a commitment to the objective truth of basic science.Continue...

City soils relations with students

The vote to exclude students from census data has aggravated an already tenuous relationship between Queen’s students and the City of Kingston.Continue...

Sober second thought, rethought

A look at three perspectives on Senate reform.Continue...

Justin Trudeau returns to campus

Liberal leadership hopeful Justin Trudeau stopped in Kingston yesterday to speak to students and local supporters.Continue...

Death of the political centre

Recently Canadian politics was presented with the beginning debates of those running for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada. The inevitable discussion on where the Liberal Party is heading in the coming weeks, months and years will follow. This discussion is the definitive ground for why getting rid of the political centre is the best thing to happen in Canadian politics in ages.Continue...

A 'subdued' history of activism

The heart of campus saw students protest yesterday in response to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the Gaza strip.Continue...

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