Presentation to Ontario Ministry of Labour Public Consultations on the Changing Nature of the Modern Workplace Kingston, July 28, 2015 Tara Kainer, Justice, Peace & Integrity of Creation Office Download the submission About the review Response from the Ontario...
July 10, 2015: Great visit today from Clément Gremillet and Maximilien Koegler who are from France, learning about and filming urban gardens across North America. They asked to learn about the Community Harvest Garden that operates in a food desert in Kingston’s north...
Tara Kainer of our Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation office joined more than 10,000 social justice advocates, students, workers, faith communities, Aboriginal peoples and more on a march for Jobs, Justice and Climate in Toronto on July 5. The diverse crowd...
Vigil from around 2001 with the since-deceased Sr. Mary Hamilton sitting down on the job.BY JAMIE SWIFT And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. Galatians 6:9 “We’ve stood in all kinds of weather. Rain and snow....
Today the #FridayVigil vigil keepers arrived to find a long line of police vans in front of Kingston city hall. Turns out they were police from Toronto, OPP, Halton and other places, all acting as an escort for the Pan Am Games flame that is touring the region What...
Dr. Danielle Martin in Kingston, May 2015BY JAMIE SWIFT A virus. One of those nasty bugs that’s hard to shake, immune to antibiotics. Sometimes a virus can spread like a forest fire, as often happens during flu season. Not surprisingly, viral infections are of...
Sister Kay Taylor (right), Provincial of the Canossian Daughters of Charity, presents Providence Sister Jeannette Filthaut with a pewter carving of the creation story as a gift for facilitating their 2014 Provincial Chapter.BY SISTER JEANNETTE FILTHAUT Spiritual...
BY JAMIE SWIFT The world’s richest man is a chubby sort of chap by the name of Slim. If he spent his money at the rate of a million dollars a day, it would take Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim 220 years to spend his $80-billion fortune. In January, an Oxfam report...
Bridget Doherty takes a little rest during the People's Climate Change March in New York City in October.BY BRIDGET DOHERTY As part of a regular update to the Sisters of Service, who co-fund the Integrity of Creation position of the Justice, Peace and Integrity of...
BY TARA KAINER From Toronto to Vancouver, Chicago to California, Seoul, South Korea to Havana, Cuba and points in between, Jennifer Cockrall-King explores the future of food in Food and the City: Urban Agriculture and the New Food Revolution (Prometheus Books, 2012)....
