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
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
We Mountain folks hate the term the Mountain that never was, because in our minds it is the longest, lowest, flatest mountain in the world.
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
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
I will be holding an open house and budget meeting Tuesday, Feb. 28 at the Stoney Creek Municipal Building, 777 Hwy. 8
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 15, 2012
The ongoing high school accommodation review will ultimately result in the closure of a number of secondary schools and the building of new 21st-century facilities.
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.
February 08, 2012
For over a year now, Sherwood high school has been viewed as being on death row.
February 08, 2012
Ward 6 Coun. Tom Jackson writes
February 07, 2012
In a recent speech to the Canadian Club in Toronto, Premier Dalton McGuinty made it clear our government’s priority is to eliminate the deficit.
February 02, 2012
This spring, the popular cemetery walking tours will start up again and history buffs will file through the headstones in the graveyard on York Boulevard behind a guide who will point out the markers and vaults of Hamilton's famous people of yesteryear.
February 02, 2012
They would still have access to all the medical treatment required, but they would have to pay for it out of their own pocket.