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Drummond strings high wire for McGuinty
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.
MPP COLUMN: Our seniors need a seamless system of care
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.
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DUSTY CORNERS: Mount Hamilton, not Hamilton Mountain
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.
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EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK: Somebody has to own up to school board’s ‘overcapacity’ line
Anyone thinking about a legal challenge over the closure of their high school may want to pay close attention to what follows.
COMMUNITY COLUMNIST: Sometimes it takes time to really appreciate the city
Few decisions can have as significant an impact on your day-to-day life as the choice of where to live.
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Corporate tax cuts coming out of seniors pockets
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.
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Anything for a good cause
The best part of my job is that I get to experience activities I wouldn’t normally think of trying.
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Learn about city budget Feb. 25
I will be holding an open house and budget meeting Tuesday, Feb. 28 at the Stoney Creek Municipal Building, 777 Hwy. 8
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DUSTY CORNERS: Clock is ticking at Hill Park High
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.
COMMUNITY COLUMNIST: Student transit system makes sense
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.
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Billy Green students put me on the spot
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.
COMMUNITY COLUMNIST: Start a fund to save the Cross of Lorraine
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.
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DUSTY CORNERS: At 17, just a boy, died like a soldier
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.
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EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK: Students see what’s going on
For over a year now, Sherwood high school has been viewed as being on death row.
COMMUNITY COLUMNIST: I can’t support cuts to garbage collection
Ward 6 Coun. Tom Jackson writes
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As Lincoln said, best way to predict future is to create it
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.
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DUSTY CORNERS: Custer’s butcher a graveyard tour attraction
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.
COMMUNITY COLUMNIST: Smokers’ health cards should be revoked
They would still have access to all the medical treatment required, but they would have to pay for it out of their own pocket.
 
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