Citizen K – CFRC Podcast Network

This week on Citizen K, host Karim Mosna covers two inaugural Queens’ camps bringing youth from across the province to campus for hands-on learning experiences in engineering. The camps include: Black Youth in STEM and Queen’s Summer Engineering Academy for Girls.

This week on Citizen K, host Karim Mosna first speaks with Xinyu Sun (PhD candidate, Biology) to learn how heatwaves are affecting lakes, then Mosna interviews Queen’s Professor of Medicine, Dr. Stephen Vanner to learn about a new discovery of a gut bacterial ‘super-producer’ of histamine that causes pain flare-ups for some patients with irritable bowel syndrome. 

This week on Citizen K with host Karim Mosna, we provide coverage of the upcoming City of Kingston report on Patry’s Davis Tannery proposal coming out on Friday. In this coverage, Mosna chats with Kathleen O’Hara No ClearCuts Kingston co-founder, and Tatyana Zaremba, environmental specialist with the Patry development team.

This week on Citizen K host Karim Mosna covers first, Summer Orientation at Queen’s, followed by an interview with Turtles Kingston Director Tara Bauer, and finally a conversation with Sistema Kingston Director Karma Tomm about how a very generous donation from Bader Philanthropies will fund Sistema for the next several years.

This week on Citizen K, host Karim Mosna covers the launch of the first commercially available electric boat in Canada, then information on free art classes through the Marine Museum of The Great Lakes and the Queen’s Gaels Women’s Rugby team will be facing two U.S. National teams later this month.

This week on Citizen K, host Karim Mosna covers first, Eco-Adventure Camp, followed by a conversation with CBC host and BuzzFeed writer Elamin Abdelmahmoud, and finally stories from newcomer youth.

This week on Citizen K, host Karim Mosna covers first, Queen’s PHD student collaboration with Ottawa based ABLE2 to recruit and retain volunteers, followed by coverage of National Indigenous Peoples’ Day celebrations including the grand opening of Tipi Moza’s new transitional housing unit, and finally coverage of the Newcomer Youth event this Saturday at Kingston Frontenac Public Libraries’ Calvin Park Branch.

On this week’s Citizen K, Karim Mosna chats with each of the local candidates about the key issues they hope to tackle right away. Then he chats with Dajana Turkovic, an analyst working on the Workforce Development and In-Migration Strategy to learn more about current challenges in recruiting and retaining workers.

In this episode of Citizen K, Ontario Nurses’ Association President Cathryn Hoy responds to local candidates’ comments on healthcare, and provides context on Bill 124. We also spoke with Wendy Vuyk from Kingston Community Health Centres about the Kingston Speaks Inclusion Project, which surveys local residents about their interactions with police in areas including equity, inclusivity and accessibility.