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It’s Thursday December 8th. Good Morning I’m Karim Mosna with your daily news brief. In the news…   The INVISTA Centre will keep it’s name for another two year term after Kingston City Council approved the extension of the naming rights agreement with INVISTA Canada until 2025. Site Manager with INVISTA Kingston Dennis McAllister says,“INVISTA considers the City of Kingston a preferred partner, and we’re honoured to be able to extend our naming rights partnership with the City. The two years we lost due to the pandemic was a challenging time for us all, but we’re moving forward, and we take great pride in being able to support the Kingston community.”   The City of Kingston has announced that Sadiqa de Meijer has been appointed as Kingston’s new Poet Laureate. The honorary four-year term position celebrates the contribution of poetry and literary arts to life in Kingston. Mayor Bryan Paterson welcomed the new poet laureate at Tuesday night’s council meeting. She has received a Governor General’s Literary Award and and recently received a 2022 Mayor’s arts award. De Meijer says, “Over the past twenty years, I have watched Kingston/Katarokwi unfold into new forms… I’m looking forward to translating this shifting place into poetry, to creating collaborative projects with local residents, and to bringing poems to the city’s landscape. Her first official event as Poet Laureate will be at the Mayor’s Levee on January 10, where she will read a new, original poem created for the occasion.    That’s all for your daily news brief. I’m Karim Mosna, if you have any news tips email me: [email protected]  

It’s Wednesday December 7th. Good Morning I’m Karim Mosna with your daily news brief. In the news…   With the United Nations Biodiversity Conference or COP15 beginning in Montreal today and the UN’s COP27 having recently wrapped up, Just Recovery Kingston and Kingston Youth Climate Action are sponsoring a City and Climate Town Hall online tonight at 7, with three panelists discussing opportunities and obstacles for climate justice at the local level. The panelists will discuss: How Kingston can meet the 50% by 2030 target required by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and what can be done in response to the climate crisis at the municipal level. The panelists include:-Mary Jane Philp of 350 Kingston Ian Borsuk of Environment Hamilton and Burnaby city councillor Alison Gu. To register visit the Just Recovery Kingston Website, and join me at 5 on The Scoop for an exclusive interview with Mary Jane Philp of 350 Kingston.   A new museum telling the story of local Holocaust survivors has opened. L’dor Vador: From Generation to Generation, the Holocaust Museum and Educated Centre is located within Kingston synagogue Beth Israel Congregation. The museum is comprised of a permanent exhibit of Family Trees that illustrate the stories of ten children who survived the Nazi genocide of Jews during World War 2, and how they built their lives in Kingston. The trees were created by students of the former Queen Elizabeth Collegiate and Vocational Institute. Teacher Pam Simon who spearheaded the project says, “The goal of creating this museum space is to not only educate students, but also to educate History and English teachers on how to teach the Holocaust.” The exhibit also includes a surviving Torah Scroll from the destruction of European Jewry.   That’s all for your daily news brief. I’m Karim Mosna, if you have any news tips email: [email protected]