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Squeeze-ing in pickleball

New club in Burlington is helping to satisfy the demand for a wildly popular sport. Pickleball has been exploding in growth across Canada, and is nearing 1.5 million players, according to Pickleball Canada. Women, in particular, have been flocking to the sport, with a recent increase of 50…
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Embracing the water

The CN rail yard on the west harbour has to move in order to realize Hamilton’s full potential as a true waterfront city.  Hamilton is a city on water. The harbour has been a source of commerce and recreation for the entire life of the community, and…
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Hounds of Hamilton: Dogs are the stars at Fetching Studios

We need a big dose of dogs these days so HAMILTON CITY Magazine is a new feature to celebrate the city's canines. Send in your dogs! This story starts with a photogenic bulldog.  Soon after he moved to Hamilton in 2020, a neighbour who breeds bulldogs…
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Looking to the past helps us eat local in the present

There are plenty of reasons to think about the food we eat and where it comes from – environmental, nutritional and now political. How our country’s Indigenous people and settlers fed themselves provides a blueprint for today. Almost 20 years ago, the book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle was…
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Community event delivers free cuts and styles to 257 kids and youth

Excel in Style saw 66 textured hair professionals donate their Saturday to boost confidence and self-expression for Black and racialized young people. Lohifa Pogoson Acker gets teary when she recaps a recent event to deliver haircuts and styling to more than 250 Black and racialized kids and…
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Hamilton’s arena transformation on time and on budget, says developer

Concert and hockey venue at Bay Street and York Boulevard will see vast unused space turned into clubs, lounges, restaurants and concessions. Check out the gallery below! From the outside, it may look like little is happening within the walls of Hamilton’s downtown arena.  But that’s…