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kingston city councillor jeff mclaren receives reprimand from council

kingston city coun. jeff mclaren was found to have violated the council code of conduct for the second time in a year.

by elliot ferguson
published may 07, 2025
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kingston city councillor jeff mclaren receives reprimand from council
meadowbrook-strathcona dist. coun. jeff mclaren was reprimanded for making comments last year that violated the council code of conduct. (elliot ferguson/the whig-standard/postmedia network) elliot ferguson / the whig-standard
kingston — meadowbrook-strathcona dist. coun. jeff mclaren received an official reprimand from council for comments that violated council’s code of conduct.
mclaren was found by the city’s integrity commissioner to have violated the code in a media interview late last year when he questioned the motives behind his fellow councillors voting against funding for the limestone city co-operative housing proposal, a project mclaren spearheaded.
“the comments reported in the article speculated on the motives of other members of council in voting against the funding proposal that was in some way an attempt to thwart the councillor’s ambitions,” the city’s integrity commissioner meghan a. cowan of aird & berlis llp told council tuesday night.
“likewise, we find that such comments cast aspersions on the intent of council in passing the motion as it did, which is a contravention of the code. the statements made by the councillor as reported in the article were a speculative accusation.”
mclaren said he though he had made it clear to the journalist that his comments were off the record.
mclaren did not speak to the reprimand in council on tuesday.
in november, mclaren was found to have violated the code of conduct when he revealed details of a closed-door meeting.
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elliot ferguson
elliot ferguson

elliot ferguson’s hands were ink-stained as a child from delivering his hometown newspaper and, since studying journalism at carleton university and photojournalism at loyalist college, he has continued to deliver the news. he started with the whig-standard in 2011, and prior to that worked for the woodstock sentinel-review and the simcoe reformer. elliot currently covers municipal affairs and the environment, but his true passion is photojournalism and visual storytelling. along the way he has collected numerous provincial, national and international awards for his photography and writing.

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