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Sharing the LRT goldmine

By Eugene Ellmen
Pilot project aims to provide an alternative future for Hamilton’s transit corridor, one that includes affordable housing alongside upscale high-rises. A land speculation bonanza is underway along Hamilton’s King and Main streets triggered chiefly by the largest infrastructure project in the city’s history, the $3.4-billion light rail transit…
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Affordable housing: No place like home

By Eugene Ellmen
A coalition of Hamilton charities – Hamilton is Home – is working to solve the housing crisis by building deeply affordable housing. The big question remains: Will the provincial government fund the services that will keep vulnerable people in those units? As the holidays begin and winter closes…
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Coming to life at McMaster University

By Eugene Ellmen
A dynamic network of startups coming out of academic research – along with an eye-popping takeover of a homegrown success story – is fuelling Hamilton’s rise as a national biotech capital. A $2.4-billion takeover of local startup Fusion Pharmaceuticals is showing how McMaster University and Hamilton are challenging…
Food + Drink

Reinventing Niagara wine

By Eugene Ellmen
Local wines have come through some tough times but the mood of the industry is optimistic as it reimagines a more intimate connection to its customers and the farmland it calls home. In the last half-century, the Niagara wine industry has undergone a revolution, tearing out unpopular native…
Made in Hamilton

Getting to the core

By Eugene Ellmen
Thousands more people will be living in Hamilton’s downtown in coming years. This will change how downtowners live, work and play. Hamilton’s downtown, long marked by abandoned storefronts and empty streets, is undergoing a rapid transformation. Construction cranes now dot the city’s skyline, reflecting a surge in residential…
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Steel goes green

By Eugene Ellmen
The steel industry, long a part of Hamilton’s lifeblood, has endured 50 years of turmoil, writes Eugene Ellmen. But things are turning around as the world discovers the importance of steel in the fight against global warming. Steel is all around us. It’s in the engines and…
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