Hamilton East-Stoney Creek Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) Neil Lumsden announced his surprise retirement last week, sending the riding to an eventual by-election.
Foot traffic at the Hamilton Farmers’ Market has trended downwards throughout Q2 of 2026, including a 14.1 per cent dip in visitors in June 2026 compared to June 2025.
The massive kerfuffle over the opening of the Gordie Howe Bridge should not have happened at all. However, it has been very instructive for Canadians about many issues unconnected to the bridge itself.
There was a stir in social media last week when Prime Minister Mark Carney named Maia Johnson as his new Chief Operating Officer.
Communication has always been an underrated skill. Some politicians have the gift; many don’t but survive life in the public eye.
After previously voting 15-1 in June in favour of having staff draft an interim control by-law to pause AI data centre applications in the City of Hamilton for a period of one year, Council reversed course and defeated the by-law in a 6-10 vote last Wednesday.
On Tuesday, Mayor Andrea Horwath announced a Special Council Meeting to have elected officials learn more about data centres.
Council heard from Dr. Martin Karsten, a University of Waterloo Computer Science Professor, Dr. Michael Schull, the Chief Executive Officer of the Digital Research Alliance of Canada, and Dr. Gianni Parise, the Vice-President of Research at McMaster University.
A press release from the City of Hamilton last Thursday announced that the municipality has taken a step forward on a controversial housing development in Downtown Stoney Creek by entering into an agreement with an affordable housing provider.
Even though Canadians voted to re-elect Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals in last spring’s election, it seems that many are unhappy with some of the government’s broader economic priorities.
“We want oil. We need oil,” said U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra on Monday. Canada has it and the U.S. wants it. And maybe, just maybe, we’ll deliver it.
After years of observing incompetent governments at all levels, scandal after scandal, major errors made on important government decisions and total abuse of our taxpayer dollars in so many instances…
