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A critical look at the Coke contract.
The sixth annual Art on the Street event exhibits art from people connected to the Street Health Centre.
The third installment of the Queen’s Athletics Initiative series looks at the building of a west complex.
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Missing Person
Local college student missing Ken Kilabuk disappeared from downtown Kingston early on the morning of Oct. 16 B y R achel H erscovici Assistant News Editor
Biology professor Sharon Regan gets pied in the face by her son at Operation Smile’s Pie the Prof event on Tuesday. The event aimed to raise funds for cleft palate surgeries for children.
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the police. Kilabuk 5’9” and 250 lbs is originally from Pangnirtung, Nunavut, where his family still resides. He was last seen wearing a blue baseball cap, a black Bench jacket, blue jeans and possibly lime green running shoes. Kingston Police experience missing person cases daily, but they are usually easily explained or instances of teenage runaways, Detective Frank Howard, one of the lead investigators on the case said. This case stands out, he said, because Kilabuk doesn’t seem to fit into these categories — leaving unannounced is out of character for him, according to friends and family. “In this case, the dog being left alone is a big red flag” Howard said. He added that nothing is certain about the reasoning behind Kilabuk’s disappearance. Many things, like amnesia or an unknown stressor, could have caused Kilabuk to run off or go missing, Howard said. He has no history of mental illness or criminal record or
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Kingston Police are investigating the disappearance of Ken Kilabuk, a 22-year-old Kingston resident who was last seen early on the morning of Oct. 16. Kilabuk, a St. Lawrence College student, was reported missing on Oct. 16 after his girlfriend, Meghan Mike, didn’t receive her usual “good morning” text from Kilabuk. After Mike, who studies in Ottawa, didn’t hear from Kilabuk all day, she grew increasingly worried and around 10 p.m. sent a few friends in Kingston to check if Kilabuk was in his apartment. When they found Kilabuk’s dog alone at the home, they contacted
Student Life
Animals to come to campus for stress Studies show that having a pet to hold and talk to can ease anxiety for students B y J ulia Vriend Assistant News Editor
visiting roster. “These dogs are just ordinary dogs,” said St. John Ambulance Students looking to alleviate stress therapy dog coordinator Monique this exam season will soon have the Grambin-White. “[They’re] certified by the St. opportunity to do so through an John ambulance and their role is to unusual resource. The AMS is pairing with Lost come into contact with people to Paws and the St. John Ambulance reduce stress.” She said because so many to bring animals to the JDUC in an attempt to reduce student stress. students have pets at home, she On site will be therapy dogs, cats thinks the program brings comfort to the students who come to pet and rabbits. The initiative will occur over and talk to the dogs. While St. John’s Ambulance will two days, one in November and one during the December exam be supplying the dogs, the kittens period, although final dates have and the rabbits will be coming yet to be decided. from the Kingston Humane The dogs will come from the Society. The animal shelter will St. John Ambulance’s therapy select the animals that are the most program. According to their conditioned to people. Last year, ASUS Lost Paws website, therapy dogs help reduce feelings of loneliness, depression came up with this idea when they heard that the AMS was also and anxiety in people. The dogs can also assist with contemplating something similar. prescribed therapy and lowering Together, they’ve been planning the event to take place in Wallace blood pressure. The therapy dogs normally Hall sometime in early November. The event will be free but a travel to retirement homes and hospitals, but trainers have recently donation box will be available, with been adding Queen’s to their proceeds going to the Kingston
Humane Society. Funding for the project will come out of the AMS special
Environment
Wind farm project halted Trillium Wind Power to appeal court decision over $2.25 billion loss B y Vincent M atak Assistant News Editor A court-ruled motion to dismiss claims against the provincial government will postpone plans to build a windmill farm in Lake Ontario near Kingston until further studies are done. Trillium Power Wind Corporation (TPWC), the Toronto-based corporation behind the proposed plan, is filing a court appeal against the province for a projected $2.25 billion of lost profits resulting from a moratorium imposed last February. Court proceedings began
in August. On Oct. 5, the corporation’s claims against the government were dismissed due to lack of proof. The wind farm was proposed as an alternative clean energy resource for Ontario residents and was also meant to provide an economic boost for the area through a direct $3 billion in investments and 15,000 new employment opportunities. In 2004, TPWC obtained a land use permit on Crown land 35 km south of Kingston. A 420 MW off-shore windmill farm was proposed to be developed on the site, making it the first of its kind in
the Great Lakes. Since then, the corporation spent approximately $5 million in development surveys and scientific studies, with a total of 104 studies completed prior to imposing the moratorium, or halt, on the project. Problems with the government regarding the plan began in 2008 after a moratorium was imposed close to a provincial election, according to John Kourtoff, president and CEO of TPWC. After the moratorium was lifted, applications for developing the sites were reopened, but TPWC didn’t reapply because of their previous See Trillium on page 4