We have all had mentors: people who have helped us to learn, grow and challenge ourselves. A mentor can be a vital resource for skilled immigrants to Canada, who often lack an effective professional network upon their arrival in a new city, as well as an understanding of Canadian workplace culture and employer expectations.

Joseph Forsythe

Joseph Forsythe, born in Huntly Scotland in 1760, married first Ann Bell, Kingston, Upper Canada 1797 (1 son) then secondly Alice Robins (6 children). He died 20 September 1813. He had settled in Kingston by 1789 as a merchant and was soon busy supplying the garrisons as well as the arriving Loyalists from a large storehouse he built.

Habitat for Humanity Greater Kingston Frontenac Seeks Support

As everyone knows, affordable housing in the Kingston area has been in the headlines in the past year. Too many families still face a lack of suitable places to live.

The Terry Harris Endowment Fund derives out of my personal conviction that families of prisoners as a demographic, suffer the most significant challenges of anyone in our community. As a person with a disability, I am well acquainted with formidable challenges.

In early March, the Kingston Community Roundtable on Poverty Reduction released its 2010 Deprivation Index. The development of this index came from the originally mandated task for the Roundtable to establish a baseline for measuring poverty in our community. As we discuss in the report and, as we determined as a group, establishing a ‘poverty baseline’ is a very challenging task.

October 28th 2010

Making our Communities Safer:  Let's Stop Concussions in Sport

Dr. Charles H. Tator