Author of the article: Elliot Ferguson
Publishing date: Apr 21, 2021 • April 21, 2021 • 3 minute read Advocates for homeless people are calling for a prohibition on evictions like the one that took place last Sept. 1 at Belle Park in Kingston. Photo by Elliot Ferguson /Elliot Ferguson/Whig-Standard
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KINGSTON City council adopted a new homelessness protocol meant to bring city policy in line with a United Nations protocol on the treatment of homeless people.
But seven advocates for the homeless spoke to council on Tuesday night and argued that the city’s new policy, by continuing to allow the eviction of people encamped on city property, still contravenes the UN document.
Theft, vandalism frustrate legion branch president
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Letter to the Editor: Legion Branch 560 has been robbed, again
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Publishing date: Apr 26, 2021 • 3 hours ago • 3 minute read Allan Jones, president of Royal Canadian Legion Branch 560, at the branch in Kingston. Photo by Michael Lea /The Whig-Standard
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For the third time in two years, thieves stole the ropes from our flagpoles at (Royal Canadian Legion Branch) 560 on Montreal Street. You read that correctly, the ropes for hoisting our flags have gone again, complete with new clasps we had to buy the last time. Until we can find the $100 per pole to replace six of our eight ropes and rent a boom truck, we cannot fly our flags. We cannot show our respect for our lost members
Author of the article: Ian MacAlpine
Publishing date: Apr 26, 2021 • 3 hours ago • 4 minute read Allan Jones, president of Royal Canadian Legion Branch 560 on Montreal Street in Kingston, on Monday. Photo by Ian MacAlpine /The Whig-Standard
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The president of Royal Canadian Legion Branch 560 on Montreal Street is growing increasingly frustrated with theft and vandalism outside the building over the past couple of years.
Allan Jones is blaming homeless people who live in an encampment between the legion’s property and Quattrocchi’s Specialty Foods to the south, and also possibly people who have recently been frequenting the Integrated Care Hub.