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Nov 1, 2024 | 
spcare.bmj.com | Catherine Thompson |Sonia Tyndall
AbstractBackground Advance care planning is a decision-making process about future health care for patients made in consultation with clinicians, family members and significant others. Currently completion rates are low and there are arguments to suggest that this is due to the current implementation.
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May 29, 2024 | 
therecord.com | Catherine Thompson
The city owns the 24,000-square-foot performing arts facility at 36 King St. W., but lost its primary user and tenant when the symphony ceased operating last September. Already a Subscriber?
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May 28, 2024 | 
therecord.com | Catherine Thompson
A new boutique condo building, with units starting at $1.85 million, is in the works in uptown Waterloo. The 11-storey building at 28 Dorset St., across the street from the old Carnegie library, will have only 29 residential units, ranging from 1,222 to 4,884 square feet. Already a Subscriber? Sign in “The design will be reminiscent of New York in a Beaux-Arts architectural style,” said Colleen Whitney, sales representative with Whitney and Company Realty.
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May 22, 2024 | 
therecord.com | Catherine Thompson
It’s still not all that unusual for women working in the male-dominated world of first responders to hear comments about whether they’re up to the job. But more often than not, those comments come from bystanders, three female first responders said at a panel Wednesday, part of the YW Kitchener Waterloo’s Women Choosing Change series. Already a Subscriber?
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May 22, 2024 | 
therecord.com | Catherine Thompson
It’s not everyday you get more than 250 people in a chandeliered ballroom at Bingemans, sitting with their eyes shut, exhaling with a loud, collective hum. But that was the scene Thursday morning, when guest speaker Sophie Grégoire Trudeau led the room in a relaxation exercise, as part of a talk she gave at the Kitchener event centre. Already a Subscriber?
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May 17, 2024 | 
therecord.com | Catherine Thompson
A huge heron suspended from the ceiling, as if in midflight, doesn’t match the perception of low-key pots and vases people often have of the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery in Waterloo. “People sometimes say, ‘Oh, it’s ceramics,’” says Denis Longchamps, the gallery’s executive director. “I always say, ‘Come and have a look.’” Already a Subscriber?
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May 15, 2024 | 
therecord.com | Catherine Thompson
The forcible confinement case of a former Kitchener city councillor will be back in court on June 6. Already a Subscriber? Sign in Ziegler, a lawyer, was a councillor for the City of Kitchener for 22 years from 1980 to 2002, when he resigned to accept the job as a justice of the peace. Waterloo Regional Police said the arrest was related to a disturbance in mid-April at the Waterloo Region courthouse on Frederick Street in Kitchener.
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May 13, 2024 | 
therecord.com | Catherine Thompson
One of the premier office buildings in Waterloo Region is for sale, listed for just $1. The Waterloo headquarters of Quantum Valley Investments, the quantum information investment fund launched by BlackBerry co-founders Mike Lazaridis and Doug Fregin, is on the market. Already a Subscriber? Sign in “It’s obviously not for sale for $1,” said Matthew Hayward of Whitney and Company Realty, who is a listing agent for the property.
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May 10, 2024 | 
therecord.com | Catherine Thompson
By Catherine Thompson Grand River Hospital and St. Mary's General Hospital have narrowed the search for the site for a new hospital in Kitchener-Waterloo and have begun negotiations for two separate properties. This latest step narrows the selection down to two sites - a preferred one and an alternate - from three that were shortlisted last December, the hospitals announced Friday.
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May 10, 2024 | 
therecord.com | Catherine Thompson
Waterloo MPP Catherine Fife hopes her new private member's bill will bring greater transparency and accountability to how sexual assault cases are handled in the justice system Her bill, Lydia's Law, draws on recommendations by the provincial Auditor General in 2019. The recommendations called on the province to report yearly on criminal cases that have been waiting for a court decision for more than eight months, and analyze the reasons for the delays.
