Pan Am track and field moving to Toronto
Organizers of the 2015 Pan Am Games are searching for a Toronto stadium to host the showcase track and field events after scrapping plans to hold them in Hamilton. Read it at thestar.comSubmit a related story
Can you Spare $12 Million?
The owners of the Connaught have entered bankruptcy and the historic Hamilton building has gone up for sale. So if you've got $12 million kicking around you could try and invest it in some Hamilton property. Read it at thespec.comSubmit a related story
4 Day Evening Walk
The 4-Day Evening Walk Committee invites Hamilton and Burlington community members to sign up for their annual “4-Day Evening Walk” event on June 14-17, 2010 at the Royal Botanical Gardens.Participants can register online at www.4DEW.com Read it at 4DEW.comSubmit a related story
A licence to carry a tune?
City hall is exploring whether Hamilton's buskers should be licensed. Consideration of a licensing category for buskers is part of an overall review of city licensing categories. A staff report is expected in June. Read it at thespec.comSubmit a related story
Minhas offers $50m for Lakeport
Labatt has been offered up to $50 million for the beer-making equipment in its now closed Hamilton brewery. The offer was tabled this week by Calgary-based Minhas Creek Brewing Company. Read it at thespec.comSubmit a related story
Minhas to make Lakeport Bid
Labatt Breweries has offered the city more than $2 million to help find a new tenant for its Hamilton beer plant. The only proviso is that tenant can't be another beer maker and must give first consideration for jobs to the 143 people displaced... Read it at thespec.comSubmit a related story
Labatt begins gutting Lakeport
After suddenly shutting down the Lakeport brewery in Hamilton on Friday, the foreign-owned beer giant started stripping vats and other material from the Burlington Street plant yesterday. Read it at thespec.comSubmit a related story
Toxic cleanup bill keeps rising
Hamilton city council is being asked to put up $3 million more toward the cleanup of Randle Reef -- bringing its contribution to $8 million -- but only if Burlington and Halton Region together ante up $4 million. Read it at thespec.comSubmit a related story
Residents build a thirst for boycott?
Labatt's handling of the Lakeport plant closure will lead to a boycott backlash by Hamilton beer drinkers. "Most people seem to feel disgusted with what Labatt's doing," said Councillor Bob Bratina. Read it at thespec.comSubmit a related story
Pyrotechnic showdown to explode in Hamilton
The Canadian Fireworks Association is hosting its fifth annual convention in Hamilton Friday -- promising more than two hours of fireworks for the public. Read it at thespec.comSubmit a related story
Downtown street work begins today on Main
Downtown drivers, beware - your trip is about to get longer. The city will begin construction on Main Street between Bay and MacNab streets today. Work is expected to continue until mid-June. Read it at thespec.comSubmit a related story
Labatt shuts Lakeport, two weeks early
The last shift was sent home early tonight and Lakeport Brewery is now officially closed. Labatt had said it would close the operation April 30. Read it at thespec.comSubmit a related story
U.S Steel strike, lockout over
Members of the United Steel Workers voted overwhelmingly yesterday to accept a no-raise, no-concessions contract with the company eight months after being locked out. Read it at thespec.comSubmit a related story
New deal at Lake Erie Works
Workers at Lake Erie Works have voted in favour of a new 3-year collective agreement with U.S. Steel. More than 88% of the workers accepted the deal, bringing an end to an 8 month lockout at the Nanticoke plant. Read it at 900chml.comSubmit a related story
Musicians plan protest to back busted busker
More than 30 local musicians are rallying behind busted street musician Ken Steffler with a Busker Crawl 2010 protest scheduled for next Friday on James Street North. Read it at thespec.comSubmit a related story
Burlington charging drivers for accidents
Beware getting into an accident in Burlington. It's going to cost you even if you're not at fault. Effective April 12, the fire department started billing residents involved in a motor vehicle accident within city limits. Read it at thespec.comSubmit a related story
Sarah Palin Family Values Tour
Sarah Palin will speak about family values in a tightly scripted appearance before a sellout crowd tonight at Carmen's Banquet Centre. When I think of family values the first name that comes to mind is Sarah Palin. Read it at thespec.comSubmit a related story
Suds battle starts to bubble
Although suitors seem to be lining up, Hamilton's lone brewery will have no value in the beer-making world if Labatt strips it bare, say beer industry insiders. Read it at thespec.comSubmit a related story
City Hall marble lands in Ancaster ditch
Octavio Miranda has pieces of Hamilton's history on his front lawn. The gold-veined Cherokee marble that once covered City Hall is now lining a drainage ditch at Miranda's expansive Ancaster home. Read it at thespec.comSubmit a related story
No bottled-water ban for Hamilton
The city has backed away from a ban on bottled water and will instead encourage Hamiltonians to rely on their taps instead. Read it at thespec.comSubmit a related story
Canaries in the mine
Poverty threatens to cripple the city's future prosperity, says Hamilton Community Foundation CEO Terry Cooke. "If we don't solve this, nothing else will matter," Cooke told the Hamilton Canadian Club in a speech yesterday. Read it at thespec.comSubmit a related story
Rollover tangles Hwy 6 North traffic
A rollover collision on Highway 6 is making a mess of the north-south commuter route between Highways 403 and 401. The crash has tied up the left lane northbound. Traffic is getting around in the right lane and shoulder. Read it at thespec.comSubmit a related story
Fugitive's long flight over
One of the men accused in the shooting death of Brandon Musgrave stepped off a plane and was whisked away by Hamilton police last night. Tyrone Chambers, 23, ducked his head and tried to shield his face as he left Hamilton airport. Read it at thespec.comSubmit a related story
Labatt made 'right call': Cascioli
Labatt made the right decision to shut down Hamilton's Lakeport Brewery, says the woman who rescued it from bankruptcy a little more than 10 years ago. Teresa Cascioli says it "was a sad moment" when she heard yesterday about the closure. Read it at thespec.comSubmit a related story
Brewing in Hamilton; 170 years of suds
Hamilton has a rich brewing history dating back 170 years. This piece from the Spec runs through some of the history of suds in this city. Read it at thespec.comSubmit a related story
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