City Life

With a little financial planning, you can make the transition into caring for your parents and for your children a little easier and a lot less stressful, without putting your own retirement plans at risk. Even on the best of days, life can be hectic and overwhelming. Jobs…

Winter nights are a great time to get outside and look up to enjoy the show the universe puts on. On March 1, Jupiter and Venus will line up very close to the moon. Look west about an hour after sunset and you won’t be able to miss…

The beloved birds of prey have been annual visitors to Hamilton’s downtown since the early ‘90s and have captured the imagination of residents ever since. During a camping trip with my son to Bon Echo Provincial Park in the 1990s we witnessed the release of peregrine falcons high…

Nelson Stevens, a former slave, who served as a soldier in the U.S. Civil War, was buried in an unmarked grave in Hamilton Cemetery. Hamilton historian Robin McKee, known for conducting tours of Hamilton Cemetery on York Boulevard, made a startling discovery in 2007.  He was doing research…

Acts of empathy showed a way forward out of homelessness, addiction, crime and intergenerational trauma, best-selling writer of From the Ashes tells St. Joseph’s A Mental Health Morning crowd. It was a handful of acts of kindness shown to him by family, acquaintances and strangers that led Jesse…

The city's celebration of the cold season has been around since the mid-1970s and this year it brings together more than 60 events and a Winterfest HUB on the rooftop at Jackson Square. Hamilton has a pretty remarkable collection of festivals. From the street-filling blockbusters to the near-historic…