Lunch to learn about what a living wage means

Jun 19, 2017 | Justice

Greg deGroot-Maggetti speaks to Sr. Pauline Lally Sustainable Kingston’s Lunch and Learn hosted Living Wage Kingston on June 14, 2017. Speaking to a capacity crowd, Greg deGroot-Maggetti, Chair of the Ontario Living Wage Network, and Cam Jay, Co-Chair, Living Wage...

Sister Julia Hamilton

Jun 13, 2017 | Obituaries

Sister Julia Hamilton was born on January 20, 1922 on a farm at Elgin, Ontario, the third of six children of John Hamilton and Margaret Scanlan. She received her elementary education in a one-room rural school and her secondary education at Notre Dame High School in...

Breakthrough for $15 and fairness

Jun 2, 2017 | Justice

As you might have heard, the Ontario government has announced an increase in the minimum wage. JPIC staff have supported this campaign locally for many years. First, when the call was for a $12/hr. minimum wage, then $14/hr. and finally $15 an hour when advocates in...

Exciting new treasure to the Archives

May 29, 2017 | Providence Flashbacks

BY VERONICA STIENBURG, ARCHIVIST The Archives received an exciting new treasure in April: the first patient register of St. Vincent de Paul Hospital in Brockville. The Register documents the patients treated at the hospital from November 28th, 1887 to January 9th,...

Baking Bread Together

Mar 3, 2017 | Reflections and addresses

Baking Bread Together I met him just the other day,As I walked through the wheat-filled fields.His cabin cloistered in the forestSurrounded by lush sycamores. The atmosphere was still, but for a cooing dove.I stopped and focused on his abodeMade of fine olive...