Today in YGK

Local music legend, Miss Emily made a surprise phone call to Indie Wake Up Call around 8:30 AM!  Our host, Cyndy Gibson got to talk to Miss Emily about her new album LIVE at The Isabel!  Listen to the conversation, support this amazing artist and get your hands that CD today!

In this week’s episode of Today in YGK, Alexandra sits down with Wendy Huot, owner and operator of The Screening Room in Kingston, Ontario. With COVID-19 impacting operations and attendance, Wendy has come up with different ways that the community can help and support this beloved Kingston business. Check out upcoming screenings by visiting this link: www.screeningroomkingston.com

In this week’s segment of Today in YGK, Alex sits down with Robert Clark, local Kingston author, to chat about his new book – Willowdale Weavers: A Baby Boomer’s Tale. 100% of the royalties will be donated to the Partners in Mission Food Bank in Kingston and the Parkdale Community Food Bank in Toronto.

Join Alexandra as she sits down with Canan Sahin and Nathalia Santos Ocasio, both Queen’s University PhD students who are a part of the Queen’s International Student Working Group. The group recently launched an online auction to help raise funds for Queen’s graduate international students who have lost funding due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and they also speak to International Graduate Students about losing their Teaching Assistant positions.

Kingston City Councillors Jim Neill (Williamsville District), Mary Rita Holland (Kingscourt-Rideau District) and Robert Kiley (Trillium District) drop by the virtual studio in this episode with guest host, Dinah Jansen.  In this episode, the council members discuss the Ontario Government’s Oct. 20th 2020 amendment to the 1996 Municipal Elections Act, legislation that removes the framework for conducting ranked ballot elections for offices on municipal councils.  More than 60% of Kingstonians voted in a 2018 referendum in favor of moving to a ranked ballot system, thus the issue is of significant local importance.

In this episode of Today in YGK, Alexandra sits down with Sadaf Amini, a local Kingston musician who specializes in playing the Santur. Also a finalist of the YGK Emerging Musician Competition, she has an upcoming performance at the Elm Cafe Open Mic Night in partnership with the Skeleton Park Arts Festival that you can attend by signing up for their newsletter here!

In this week’s episode of Today in YGK, Alexandra sits down with Harshavardhan Thyagarajan, a graduate student of Queen’s University, to talk about Queen’s International Graduate Students losing their teaching assistant positions due to the fact that they do not reside in the country during this pandemic, which is posing a lot of difficulty.

In this week’s episode of Today in YGK, Alexandra sits down with Connor Stone, a PhD candidate at Queen’s University to discuss the Royal Astronomical Society’s announcement that new life has been detected on Venus.

In today’s episode of Today in YGK, Alexandra sits down with Gilles Charette, executive director of the HIV/AIDS Regional Services in Kingston, Ontario to talk about the new Integrated Care Hub.