Minimum Wage – City Budget

 

Ontario’s new labour law will cost the City of Kingston over $800,000.

The estimated cost was revealed during budget presentations for city council last night.

Council is considering a budget that will increase property taxes in Kingston by 2.5% for 2018.

 

Queen’s – Principal Retiring

 

Queen’s University Principal Daniel Woolf says he will not seek a third term when his current term expires in June of 2019.  Woolf has been principal since 2009.

Woolf is 59 and says he’s looking forward to returning to full-time research and teaching before he retires.

 

Brier Bid

 

Kingston has launched a bid for the 2020 Brier.

Kingston officially announced its bid for the Canadian men’s curling championship yesterday at the Rogers K-Rock Centre.

Tourism Kingston says if the city does host the Brier visitors will spend an estimated 11 to 16 million dollars over the eight days of the event.

 

Dragon’s Den

 

Two local people will be appearing on upcoming episodes of Dragons Den.

25 year old Brandon McIntosh of Kingston is appearing on the show tomorrow night.

McIntosh is founder of Rolling Desserts.  It’s an at home ice cream maker used to make rolled ice cream.

The St. Lawrence College grad has already raised over $60,000 in pre-sales in an Indiegogo campaign.

 

The December 8th edition of Dragons Den will include a segment with Sean Price of Elgin.  Price has invented The Sure Fire Cube…a cube you light to start a wood fire.

 

Tree of Hope

 

The Tree of Hope campaign is getting a big boost from the Queen’s Commerce Society.

Students will be bagging toys for the Tree of Hope holiday appeal in Goodes Hall.

The toys will be loaded on a Kingston Transit Bus and will be delivered to family and Children’s Services on Division Street tonight.  The toys will be given to nearly 100 children in Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington.

 

Toys for Tickets

 

If you have a parking ticket you’ll be able to pay for it in Kingston with a new toy.

The city’s annual Toys for Tickets program returns on December 7th and 8th.

Brochures explaining the program are being handed out with parking tickets.

Since 2005, Toys for Tickets has collected more than 2,800 toys for Kingston children.

 

Matt Lauer – Fired

 

NBC has announced it has terminated longtime “Today” show host Matt Lauer for inappropriate sexual behaviour in the workplace.  Lauer’s co-anchor Savannah Guthrie made the announcement at the beginning of the show this morning.

Guthrie described Lauer as a dear, dear friend…and said she was…heartbroken for the brave colleague who came forward to tell her story.

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