Meghan Balogh

Kingston

Multimedia Journalist at The Kingston Whig-Standard

Multimedia Journalist at The Kingston Whig-Standard. Musician, mom, equestrian, wanna-be gardener. Let me tell your #ygk story. [email protected]

Articles

Hastings—Lennox and Addington—Tyendinaga candidates weigh in during public forum

1 week ago | thewhig.com | Meghan Balogh

Advertisement 1 • • Article contentThe five candidates running for election in the riding of Hastings—Lennox & Addington—Tyendinaga met for an all-candidates forum north of Napanee on Tuesday night. Advertisement 2Sign In or Create an AccountArticle contentThe event was hosted by the Lennox & Addington Chamber of Commerce from the Selby Community Hall, where the organization live-streamed the event on social media. Candidates delivered opening statements in alphabetical order.
Kingston-area woman recounts 'harrowing' coyote experience in local conservation area

1 week ago | thewhig.com | Meghan Balogh

Advertisement 1 • • Article contentA Kingston-area woman is sharing her story of a close encounter with a coyote in Parrott’s Bay Conservation Area this week. Advertisement 2Sign In or Create an AccountArticle contentCynthia Delahaye was walking her chocolate Labrador retriever, Ryder, at lunch time on Wednesday in the conservation area near Odessa when the two encountered a single coyote when it engaged with her leashed dog.
Neurosurgeon transforming brain tumour treatment path for Kingston patients

2 weeks ago | thewhig.com | Meghan Balogh

Advertisement 1Hospitals in other parts of the world are now looking to Kingston Health Science Centre's innovative Integrative Brain Tumor Program model of care. • Article contentA Kingston neurosurgeon has helped brain tumour patients receive treatment more quickly and with better communication, thanks to her background in entrepreneurship.
Expert says vaccination best protection as measles arrives in Kingston

2 weeks ago | thewhig.com | Meghan Balogh

Advertisement 194.4 per cent of infected children and adolescents who’ve contracted measles in the province were unvaccinated, as well as 24.4 per cent of adults. • • Article contentKINGSTON — Local public health is reporting the first case of measles in the Kingston region, as cases of the infectious disease increase across the country.
Third week, no resolution to first academic strike in Queen's University history

3 weeks ago | thewhig.com | Meghan Balogh

Advertisement 1 • • Article contentKINGSTON — There is no resolution in sight as striking graduate student workers at Queen’s University mark the completion of the third week of a job action that started on March 10, after the university failed to reach a contract agreement with members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) Local 901 Unit 1.
Cataraqui Conserveration extends flood watch for Kingston region

4 weeks ago | thewhig.com | Meghan Balogh

Advertisement 1Some locations within the local watershed are seeing water levels that are "well above normal seasonal averages," the conservation authority stated. • Article contentKINGSTON — The region’s conservation authority is warning that flooding could be expected in the days to come, as rain and freezing rain is set to descend on the Kingston area over the weekend.
Immigrants vital to Kingston's past, present, future

1 month ago | thewhig.com | Meghan Balogh

Advertisement 1In the fourth instalment of our How Canada Wins series, we examine the role that immigrants play in building the Kingston community, socially and economically. • • Article contentKINGSTON — Nesa Beaubrun and her husband Malcom are walking through Kingston’s McCullough Park on an unseasonably warm evening in March, their two young girls running ahead.
Striking Queen's grad student workers into second week on picket line

1 month ago | thewhig.com | Meghan Balogh

Advertisement 1More than 150 Queen's University faculty demonstrate support for striking workers with signatures on open letter • Article contentStriking student workers at Queen’s University are midway through their second week on the picket line as they wait for Queen’s to bring another offer to the negotiating table.
Queen's University support staff ratify three-year collective agreement

1 month ago | thewhig.com | Meghan Balogh

Advertisement 1United Steelworkers Union Local 2010 members voted 65 per cent in favour of ratification on March 13 • • Article contentJust over 1,200 support staff, academic assistants and resident dons at Queen’s University have ratified their collective agreement as of March 13.
Queen's graduate student workers demonstrate 'strike unity' on campus Friday

1 month ago | thewhig.com | Meghan Balogh