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February 22, 2012
Economist Don Drummond has strung a political tight rope that will require more skill for Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty to traverse than it will for daredevil Nik Wallenda to walk across a high wire crossing the Niagara Gorge.
February 22, 2012
For the last 10 years the city has created a specific opportunity for Hamilton residents to voice their opinion on how to spend their money in each year’s budget.
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February 22, 2012
The number of seniors in Ontario will increase by almost 50 per cent over the next decade. Since 2005, wait times for long-term care beds have tripled.
February 22, 2012
Anyone thinking about a legal challenge over the closure of their high school may want to pay close attention to what follows.
February 22, 2012
I agree with bringing back the cross at the Mountain brow to life — to light.
February 22, 2012
After reading about the plight of Grade 12 Hill Park student Brett Bailey, I’m convinced the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board, and their politically correct staff, have finally jumped the shark, like Fonzi did on that old television show.
February 22, 2012
Few decisions can have as significant an impact on your day-to-day life as the choice of where to live.
February 16, 2012
In a recent speech at the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland, the prime minister suggested that, as a part of a broad social “transformation,” the Canadian retirement system would undergo significant changes, with the Prime Minister’s Office suggesting that the age of eligibility for old age security would be increased from 65 to 67.
February 15, 2012
The best part of my job is that I get to experience activities I wouldn’t normally think of trying.
February 15, 2012
re: University grads want the good life right away
There is indeed a problem with Canada's basic wages. The cursory comparison the author of this letter makes between life in 1951 and life today is not helpful in delving deeply into the challenges currently facing many people across our province.
February 15, 2012
I was stunned to see the about-face the OFA has taken on wind turbines, considering the opportunity it has brought to the rural community to participate in the provinces’ need for electrical generation and the economic benefits it has brought to many areas.
February 15, 2012
A sinewy, bespectacled sort of chap with a black patch over one eye and a balding, nattily dressed judge of the Magistrates’ Court stood knee high in a hayfield.
February 14, 2012
For years now, we've all seen the haunting images of starving children in Third World countries. It's difficult to look at the swollen bellies and skeletal limbs of crying babies.
February 09, 2012
Was there something in Hamilton’s water last weekend that caused an alarming spike in the number of impaired drivers caught by the police?
February 09, 2012
Somebody reads me.
To a columnist, I don’t think there is anything better than a face-to-face encounter with someone who admits your column had an impact.
February 08, 2012
The fight over west Mountain brow lands is overshadowed by a far greater story. A story of prayers answered, a city served and saved; but sadly, also a story of loss, neglect, obscurity.
February 08, 2012
On the evening of Sunday, June 5, 1866, east of Port Colborne, 120 young soldiers of Hamilton’s XIIIth Battalion lay huddled in a roadside ditch.