The JPIC Committee meeting held using Zoom video conferencing.BY BRIDGET DOHERTY, JPIC DIRECTOR “The Gospel, our Church’s social justice teachings, the spirit of Vatican II, the congregational constitutions, charism and Mission Statements repeatedly urge us to...
This is a shortened version of the article published in Horizons, a publication of Queen’s Department of Family Physicians Global Health Program. Tara Kainer is employed in the Justice, Peace & Integrity of Creation Office of the Sisters of Providence of St....
Technological Unemployment as Thought Experiment presenters Jason Burke Murphy (United States), Sergey Zolotov (Russia), and David Goutor (Canada).BY TARA KAINER, JPIC TEAM The 17th Annual North American Basic Income Guarantee (NABIG) Congress was held this year in...
From left: MPP Sophie Kiwala, Sister Gayle Desarmia and Sister Diane Brennen.Sister Diane Brennen spoke at the Community Harvest Kingston’s second Canada 150+ event on August 30, 2017. Sister Gayle and I are pleased to be part of this celebration commemorating...
Greg deGroot-Maggetti speaks to Sr. Pauline LallySustainable 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...
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...
Photo: sideroadsofmuskoka.wordpress.comOjibwe Medicine Wheel. Participants of the Talking Circle all received a tiny brooch made of red, white, black, and yellow beads on a circle of leather illustrating the Four Directions of the Medicine Wheel.BY TARA KAINER I am...
Today members of the three Congregations of Sisters at Providence Motherhouse were treated to an enthusiastic presentation by Holy Cross School students about their mission trip to Jamaica last year. Chaplain Chris Forster introduced the students who had been and are...
MPP Sophie Kiwala (in red) meets with ISARC members, from left Cam Jay, Tara Kainer and Jamie Swift.Updates on basic income campaigns: Toronto Star May 25, 2017 - Basic income hailed as way to give people chance to chase their dreams The Independent May 27, 2017...
Steven Guilbeault, co-founder of Équiterre, came to Kingston on November 1st as part of his cross-country speaking tour. He gave two presentations in Kingston. The first presentation focused on Équiterre, Quebec's largest environmental non-profit organization and...
