Equipped with a laptop, syringes and Pfizer doses — and his two kids in tow — Dr. Joe Oliver is a walking vaccine clinic. If he spots you, he’ll politely ask if you want a shot,
@teviahmoro
reports
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Loblaws is apologizing to
#HamOnt
customers of a Main Street No Frills after the wide online circulation of photo of a mouse in a bag of bread at the store
Anne Whittle, 95, has kept busy during COVID knitting Harry Styles jackets for her granddaughters here and in England. Now, their friends are placing orders, Jeff Mahoney writes
#HamOnt
Get a glimpse of the excitement in downtown Hamilton as fans gather for the
#BTSLoveYourselfTour
by Korean pop sensation
@bts_bighit
.
@BTS_twt
will perform three concerts at the First Ontario Centre this September.
The Canadian government is taking its cross-border trade dispute with the U.S. up a notch, unveiling a final list of $16.6-billion worth of American imports that will be hit with retaliatory tariffs this weekend.
Hamilton turned black and pink to welcome a Korean girl band.
About 17,000 people gathered at FirstOntario Centre Sunday and the same number was expected Monday to see
@BLACKPINK
in their “Born Pink” tour,
@BeaBaleeiro
reports
#HamOnt
#BREAKING
| Hamilton Centre will remain an Ontario NDP stronghold after candidate Sarah Jama won the lower-city riding in a byelection Thursday
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#OPINION
| If you need a teacher to let you know what’s going on with your kid, you might want to take hard look at your parenting skills, writes Drew Edwards.
Brantford police are investigating after a billboard showing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a Nazi uniform next to Adolf Hitler was erected in the city’s downtown,
@sebibron
reports
#HamOnt
Melina Roberge broke down in tears when the Sydney court handed down the sentence, which includes a nonparole period of 4 years and 9 months in prison for her role in a cocaine cruise
First Nations leaders are pressing Ontario to abandon plans to develop former Greenbelt lands in Hamilton and across the GTA in the wake of a scathing auditor-general report,
@Mattatthespec
reports
The three shows - the only Canadian dates on
#BTS
's first North American tour - are drawing fans from across the continent, many spending thousands of dollars each on tickets, flights, hotels, meals and merchandise, writes
@RockatTheSpec
.
#BTSinHamilton
Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) is taking down its temporary field hospital only a month after opening and without seeing a single patient
@maria9860
reports
#HamOnt
Martin Regg Cohn | When you have a shape-shifting premier who resizes and rezones the Greenbelt at will — in defiance of the public will and his own personal vow — you have a land scandal without boundaries
A Hamilton-area provincial election Progressive Conservative candidate says the decision to skip a local all-candidates’ debate next week was made by the Ontario PC party, not him
#HamOnt
#ontariovotes
The hunt for a serial mail bomber began late Tuesday when Secret Service personnel conducting standard mail screenings found a pipe bomb inside a plain manila envelope with a bubble-wrapped interior addressed to former secretary of state Hillary Clinton
Thirty-one years.
That's how long Ontario mom, Lyneth Mann-Lewis, waited to be reunited with her son, how long she held out hope she would one day hold him again, for the first time since he was a baby.
#ICYMI
:
#OPINION
Stop the fearmongering. Stop the childishness
Here’s the bigger problem when you run around screaming the country is broken. Some people hear that and start to believe it’s true, writes Steve Buist.
Philanthropists Charles and Margaret Juravinski have donated millions to health care in
#HamOnt
, but never has it been directed at such an immediate crisis. The couple announced they are giving $3.3 million toward fighting COVID-19
@jonjwells
reports
Surrounded by supporters and flanked by a Palestinian flag,
@SarahJama_
drew defiant lines in the sand Tuesday, vowing not to back down from her critics,
@GrantRants
reports
In the wake of Hamilton’s SpinCo outbreak, Ontario’s associate chief medical officer of health says the province will “reconsider” existing guidelines for spin studios and other gym settings,
@KatrinaAClarke
reports
#HamOnt
⚡ The crisis at Hamilton’s children’s hospital is getting worse with a surge of viral illness leading to record overcrowding.
Occupancy is over 140 per cent at
@mch_childrens
— up from 135 per cent last week,
@jfrketich
reports
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Only four boxes of COVID test kits were distributed to each of two Niagara LCBO, said St. Catharines MPP Jennie Stevens, an effort she called a "publicity stunt" given the regional population and " magnitude of transmission.”
High-profile builders purchased an Ancaster Greenbelt property just weeks before Ontario announced plans to strip development protections from the area,
@teviahmoro
and
@mattatthespec
report
#HamOnt
#OnPoli
In front of a joyous crowd of 8,663 yellow-towel-waving, wave-doing, we-want-the-Cup chanting, ref-jeering fans on Sunday afternoon,
@BulldogsOHL
beat the Soo Greyhounds 5-4 in an instant classic and in the process, won their first OHL title.
Ontario government’s Health Connect Ontario help, line staffed by registered nurses, is referring patients they believe should see a doctor to a virtual service that charges $55 for a single live chat — which is not covered by OHIP.
The Spectator's view: Every voter and every taxpayer in Ontario can — and we think should — heartily agree that Premier Doug Ford is wrong to use their money to peddle his carbon-tax bashing propaganda in a government ad campaign.
The owner of Adamson Barbecue has been charged after attempting to open, one day after the city’s top doctor ordered the Etobicoke restaurant closed for violating
#COVID19
restrictions
Saleem and Swarsh Mian, who own Punjab International in east Hamilton, raised $80,000 for Hamilton General Hospital to purchase medical equipment after they say they both received excellent hospital care and wanted to give back
Mayor Andrea Horwath is urging the Ontario government to ditch its plan to remove swaths of the Greenbelt for housing development after a scathing report by the provincial auditor general,
@TeviahMoro
reports
#HamOnt
Of the roughly 1,600 sex education consultation submissions obtained by The Canadian Press, only about two dozen messages spoke in favour of the Progressive Conservative government’s decision to repeal the modernized 2015 curriculum.
#OPINION
| When it comes to Highway 413, farmers, city dwellers, suburbanites and car users are mostly united: they don’t want it, Gideon Forman writes
Chantal Hébert | Pierre Poilievre’s tendency to overreach at the expense of hard facts mostly comes across as a symptom of political immaturity
#OPINION
An incident where a female pedestrian was stuck by a vehicle in the parking lot of a Walmart on Centennial Parkway North in Stoney Creek has prompted police to investigate it further as a hate crime
At the long-term care home in Ancaster where Sarah works, over 125 residents haven’t seen family for nearly a month.
Sarah sits with your mom. Holds your grandma’s hand. Helps your dad work an iPad so he can “visit” family, Lorraine Sommerfeld writes.
Canada’s Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, Ahmed Hussen, visited his former school, Hamilton’s Sir John A. Macdonald Friday. He made it back just in time, as the school closes its doors for good in just over a month, writes
@jonjwells
.
Hamilton Conservation Authority is asking Ontario’s auditor general to investigate “extremely damaging changes” Doug Ford’s government made to how wetlands are evaluated
#HamOnt
A Burlington lawyer accused of lowballing a neighbour with dementia to buy her home, then allegedly trying to destroy evidence of it, had her licence suspended by the Law Society Tribunal of Ontario, writes
@susanclairmont
👉 |
#HamOnt
#BurlON
Our Black community has always known it. Now statistics confirm it.
@HamiltonPolice
disproportionately use force against Black people in this city compared to other groups of people,
@susanclairmont
writes
#HamOnt
The Haudenosaunee Confederacy announced a moratorium on all development within the Haldimand Tract Monday. That's an area of more than 950,000 acres that runs 10 kilometres along both sides of the Grand River,
@jpantonacci
reports
"If people can be really that selfish to call to complain about a service that saves children's lives, and also to occupy the 911 line for this kind of thing, then they do deserve to be fined."
#OPINION
| Premier Doug Ford's recklessness threatens to rupture the very genius that makes our judicial system work: namely, the absolute independence and impartiality of its linchpins — our judges, writes Dermot Nolan.
A small group of protesters hijacked part of the Hamilton Labour Day Parade, preventing the Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liuna group from leaving with the main march
#LabourDay
#HamOnt
@JustinTrudeau
Today is Lincoln Alexander Day. It is a national day of recognition held every Jan. 21 to honour one of Hamilton’s most historic and distinguished figures. Here's what you should know about this treasured Hamiltonian
#HamOnt
King William Street will close to cars for pandemic patio expansions — and dozens of similar requests are under consideration across Hamilton,
@Mattatthespec
reports
#HamOnt
#BREAKING
Radius restaurant is the site of the city’s latest outbreak.
The news comes as positive cases at SpinCo climbed to 72 Thursday, with one new patron infected and two new secondary contacts infected, reports
@KatrinaAClarke
#HamOnt
NDP Leader Marit Stiles promises to "shine light in every corner" of the Ford government, with the legislature returning Monday following summer break
#OnPoli
An NDP government would provide Ontarians with dental benefits and pay off students' post-secondary loans, said leader Andrea Horwath in a speech Saturday that gave a glimpse into her party's election platform
#OnPoli
@OntarioNDP
Editorial: Eisenberger and LRT proponents can honestly claim to have fought and won the election fair and square. The returning mayor can absolutely say he has an LRT mandate from the voters of Hamilton
In today's letters | "All you hear is don't drink and drive ... So, what does our government do? Allow sales of beer and wine at corner stores and gas stations," writes Rusty Escott
#HamOnt
Wilson to call for RCMP probe of Hamilton’s forced urban expansion
Mounties already investigating Premier Doug Ford’s Greenbelt scandal
👉 | Hamilton
#HamOnt
| Teviah Moro, Spectator Reporter
@teviahmoro
#OPINION
| In Doug Ford's Greenbelt scandal who are big losers — "you and me and the rest of the non-billionaires," writes Don McLean.
Hamilton residents can challenge the Greenbelt removals Sept. 14
#HamOnt
Haldimand County council wants to name the Cayuga bridge in honour of Const. Grzegorz “Greg” Pierzchala, an OPP officer who was killed in the line of duty just after Christmas.
#OPINION
We need this Trudeau government to deliver a speech from the throne that commits to investments in public services, a stronger social safety net and programs that prioritize the health and welfare of people and our planet, writes
@MatthewGreenNDP
This Sunday at a Hamilton Mountain church, 40 or 50 volunteers will spend their day giving free oil changes to single parents.
Some goodness, it seems, is just for the sake of goodness, writes
@Radleyatthespec
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