On the first night back from their winter holiday, Cindy Liang, Comm ’23, and her roommate decided to hang posters in celebration of the Lunar New Year.
Minutes after they finished decorating their door in Victoria Hall on Jan. 5, Liang’s roommate heard papers being torn down in the hall, followed...
On Thursday Nov. 17, graffiti depicting Nazi symbolism was found on a fence in a backyard near Earl and Victoria Street.
According to Kingston Police Media Relations Officer Steve Koopman, the report from the incident stated that “the graffiti was an unrecognizable word with a German SS symbol.”
The...
When AMS President Tyler Lively walked into the AMS offices on Saturday morning, he noticed that “there were stickers and posters everywhere”. After reading their messages, he labelled it an act of vandalism.
The stickers were placed by supporters of the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS), and...
Two wrongs don’t make a right — ignoring the real legacy of Canada’s first Prime Minister doesn’t justify vandalism, but neither is vandalism an excuse to continue to celebrate his birthday.
On Monday, hours before the annual celebration of Sir John A. Macdonald’s birthday, red paint was dumped...
“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...
Accusatory vandalism has no place in promoting body positivity.
Last week, a subway rider in Toronto pulled a dry-erase marker from her purse and added to what someone had already written across an ad for the Toronto Cosmetic Clinic — “you don’t need this.”
Ads like this one reinforce the normalization...
While vandalism may not be the most moral method of protest, it certainly has raised awareness about Sir John A. Macdonald’s legacy in Kingston.
In the past few weeks, the statue of Sir John A. has been spray-painted with words such as “colonizer” and “murderer,” while two historic plaques in front...