[URBAN NOTE] Fifteen Kingston, Ontario links (#kingstonon)

• CBC reports on suggestions that Kingston should plan for a population expected to grow significantly in coming decades, to not just expand but to have intensified development downtown.


• The rental housing market for Kingston is very tight, not only because of large student populations. Global News reports.


• Kingstonist reports on Queen's plans to build a large new student residence on Albert Street, here.


• The Whig-Standard carries an account of the new Queen's principal being interrogated by Kingston city council over issues of friction between school and city, including costs for policing (and not only at Homecoming weekend).


• This summer, farmers in the Kingston area saw poor crop production as a consequence of the weather. Global News reports.


• Happily, the budget of the city of Kingston was made to accommodate costs for Murney, the police force's horse. Global News reports.


• Weston Food's plant in Kingston has seen forty jobs cut. Global News reports.


• Lake Ontario Park, in the west of the city, may be reopened to limited camping. The Whig-Standard reports.


• Kingston hockey player Rebecca Thompson is now playing for the team of Queen's. Global News reports.


• Queen's University is not alone in urging its exchange students in Hong Kong to evacuate. The Whig-Standard reports.


• Yesterday, a plane crashed in the west of Kingston, killing all seven people aboard. CBC reports.


• Chris Morris at Kingstonist has a long feature examining the Kingston Street Mission, interviewing outreach worker Marilyn McLean about her work with the homeless of the city.


• Kingston-born street nurse Cathy Crowe talks about homelessness, in Kingston and across Canada. Global News reports.


• The family of Royal Military College cadet Joe Grozelle, who disappeared from his campus and was later found dead two decades ago, wants his fate reinvestigated. Global News reports.


• A hundred students at a Kingston public school are being taught how to skate, part of a pilot program. Global News reports.

[PHOTO] Five photos taken on an early morning trip to Gate 20, Union Station