Alan S. Hale
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Kingston, ON, Canada
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Kingston diagnostic lab developed a COVID-19 test in just a few days
KINGSTON — The molecular biology laboratory at Kingston Health Sciences Centre and other labs like it have been at the heart of the effort to contain COVID-19, not just in Kingston but across… → Read More
Public health recommends wearing mask 'in confined areas'
Going to the grocery store during the COVID-19 pandemic has become a delicate dance of trying to keep away from other shoppers while stocking up on enough goods to last for a week or more.Signs and… → Read More
Queen's University team designs easy-to-make medical ventilator
A team of around 25 students and faculty members from various departments at Queen’s University has designed a working medical ventilator using readily available parts in just 10 days.The tea… → Read More
Kingston outpacing many places on testing and turnaround
Kingston outpacing many places on testing and turnaround → Read More
How to talk to your children about COVID-19, social distancing
No school, no ability to go see friends, empty streets and nervous adults. It must be an unnerving time to be a child. So how should parents talk to their children about what is happening in a constructive way that won’t terrify them? That was the dilemma faced by Kris Boksman, but fortunately for her, […] → Read More
Kingston begins stockpiling toilet paper and other necessities
The phenomenon of people stockpiling toilet paper and other necessities has finally arrived in Kingston, coinciding with the World Health Organization declaring the outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus to be a pandemic. Shoppers in Kingston began noticing empty shelves in local grocery stores on Wednesday evening and even began having trouble finding enough rolls. Some […] → Read More
Kingston kindergarten teacher develops a better way to teach reading
KINGSTON — Teachers, education specialists and speech and language professionals from across Canada will be listening on Wednesday to a Kingston kindergarten teacher explain her method for teaching young children how to read. Emily Moorhead teaches at Winston Churchill Public School. She has spent the past seven years pioneering a method for teaching an entire […] → Read More
Former Kingston MPP and wife arrived at CFB Trenton for quarantine
John and Assunta Gerretsen of Kingston are among 228 Canadian passengers from the Grand Princess cruise ship to have arrived safe and sound at Canadian Forces Base Trenton after being flown there from Oakland, Calif., early Tuesday. The Gerretsens will spend the next two weeks there to make sure they do not manifest symptoms of […] → Read More
Former Kingston mayor and wife to be quarantined at CFB Trenton after cruise
Former Kingston mayor, MPP and Ontario Attorney General John Gerretsen and his wife, Assunta, are aboard the Grand Princess cruise ship, which is currently quarantined off the coast of California because some of its passengers are infected with the COVID-19 virus. The Gerretsens are in good health and good spirits despite the hitch in their […] → Read More
Four Royal Military College cadets in Kingston may have been exposed to COVID-19
Four Royal Military College officer cadets are being isolated at Canadian Forces Base Kingston after potentially being exposed to the COVID-19 virus. According to the Department of National Defence, one of its cadets may have been exposed to the virus on an airplane flight from Montreal to Vancouver on Feb. 13. The British Columbia Centre […] → Read More
Inquest announced into 2017 deaths of Hydro One employees
It has been more than two years since a group of four Hydro One employees perished after their helicopter crashed while they were servicing some remote power lines near Tweed. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada’s report on the crash was released last month, clearing the way for a coroner’s inquest, which was finally announced […] → Read More
Cornwall cancer patient has a friend in James Taylor
Musician James Taylor has lived up to the message in one of his most famous hits this week, letting Cornwall cancer patient Darrell Johnson know he had a friend. The singer-songwriter sent a personal video message to one of his biggest fans, Darrell Johnson, who is in palliative care at the Carefor Hospice Cornwall. Over […] → Read More
Duncan challenges leadership candidate who said being gay is a choice
Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry MP Eric Duncan issued a tongue-in-cheek invitation Conservative Party of Canada leadership candidate Richard Décarie to speak with him about his choices, after Decarie said he believes being homosexual is a choice. Decarie made the comment during a television interview with CTV’s Evan Solomon, who asked the candidate if he believed being gay […] → Read More
Comedian Derek Edwards brings his whimsical brand of humour back to Ottawa
Comedian Derek Edwards will be coming to Meridian Theatres at Centrepointe this Saturday to deliver his whimsical and irreverent brand of comedy to an Ottawa audience. Edwards just wrapped up a tour of Atlantic Canada and is diving straight into the Ontario leg of that tour entitled, So Here’s The Thing… “It was beautiful; it […] → Read More
Charges dropped against Ottawa co-accused in South Glengarry homicide case
CORNWALL — Anh Quang-Nguyen is a free man after spending more than two years either in jail or on bail following his arrest in June of 2017. Quang-Nguyen was one of two men arrested following the death of Ottawa man, Khanh Nguyen. Quang-Nguyen and his co-accused, Tri (Ming) Hoang, took the victim to Hopital Glengarry […] → Read More
Cornwall jumps into race as home for new francophone Ontario university
The City of Cornwall has thrown its hat into the ring to become the location of Ontario’s first francophone university. The project is in the early stages. After some confusion, Ontario has promised to put up half of the estimated $126 million to create the university, with the federal government announcing just prior to the […] → Read More
Bishops invited to screening of Prey, depicting Sudbury student's search for justice
The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops holds is gathering next week, as it has annually for several years now, in Cornwall. But this year, bishops have been invited to take a break from their week of meetings for a night at the movies. Members of the Canadian chapter of the Survivors Network of those Abused […] → Read More
Man jailed eight years for his role in the death of his grow-op partner
CORNWALL — The man who stabbed an Ottawa man and abandoned him at the Glengarry Memorial Hospital in Alexandria, where he died, has been sentenced to almost eight years in prison. Tri (Ming) Hoang is one of two men who were charged in the June 2017 death of Khanh Nguyen. He was originally charged with […] → Read More
Seaway at 60: Project would be nearly impossible if done today
The St. Lawrence Seaway was an infrastructure project of a scale and impact that simply isn’t seen much anymore — at least in the western world. → Read More
Cornwall MPP stands by staff's decision to call police on autism parents
CORNWALL — Stormont-Dundas-South Glengarry MPP Jim McDonell is standing behind his staff member’s decision to call the police on a group of parents came into his Cornwall constituency office with their children earlier this week. → Read More