Kingston and the Islands MP Mark Gerretsen sent a letter on Jun. 22 to Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau about the “violent events in the Middle East.”
The letter, addressed to Garneau, is a result of Gerretsen’s virtual meeting with Muslim and Jewish community members on May 30 in which constituents...
On May 30, a group of Muslim community members and members of Independent Jewish Voices (IJV) attended a closed Zoom meeting with Kingston and the Islands MP Mark Gerretsen.
The meeting’s purpose was to allow community members to express their views on Palestine and the Canadian government’s lack...
“I’m calmer now that I’m chain smoking,” Arthur Milnes said, puffing on a small section of a cigarette.
Mere hours earlier on Monday, Milnes — who had organized a birthday tribute to Sir John A. Macdonald — was targeted in an act of vandalism alongside Kingston MP Mark Gerretsen.
Both Gerretsen and...
The longest, most expensive and quite possibly the most important Canadian federal election is finally over. The Leafs almost don’t suck, the Jays are in the playoffs and we’ve finally gotten rid of Harper. What a time to be alive.
I’ll preface this article by saying that I’m truly and deeply happy...
Last updated: Oct. 23 at 8:00 a.m.
After 78 days of campaigning, Liberal candidate Mark Gerretsen has been declared the Member of Parliament to represent Kingston and the Islands in Ottawa.
Gerretsen, Kingston’s mayor from 2010 to 2014, was born and raised in Kingston. He’s served in municipal politics...
Mark Gerretsen secured the Liberal Party nomination for MP of Kingston and the Islands in a race that culminated on Saturday — a move that could take Kingston’s former mayor to Parliament Hill in 2015.
Gerretsen was one of five contenders in the race, which also included Bittu George, Rahime Juma,...
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Men’s Issues group poisons debate: If the Men’s Issues Awareness Society hoped to foster intellectual dialogue on gender issues, they failed. The speaker MIAS invited, Janice Fiamengo, misrepresented feminism and only served to polarize debate and inflame tensions.
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Conversations about Homecoming’s future are in the works after University Council voted to recommend Principal Daniel Woolf reinstate the event next year.
The motion called for Woolf to restore Homecoming for fall 2013, rather than in 2014 as initially planned. The motion passed at University Council...