Dejehan Hamilton is using his knowledge and experience to lift up other racialized musicians and help them navigate the industry. It’s well known that music is a tough way to make a living, so a 12-week program called The Blueprint is aiming to make the road a little…

Wayside House offers residential addiction treatment and supportive housing programs to men and male youth who are seeking sobriety. One of many success stories, Matt is finding new purpose after drug dependency and life on the streets. In this story, we follow up with Matt, whom…

Strong Towns conference in Cincinnati – and the city itself – offer plenty of examples of what we can do to build a livable, inviting city for residents and visitors. Back in May, a group of intrepid Hamiltonians made the trek south of the border to…

Hamilton publishing house now includes three imprints producing fiction, non-fiction and poetry that challenge, enchant and refuse to conform. Sandwiched between restaurants on James Street North, you’ll find Wolsak and Wynn, a self-professed “charmingly contrary literary press” that’s been publishing challenging, enchanting, unusual, and often award-winning books…

Here's a list of what has come, gone and changed in Hamilton and Burlington in September. Launched & opening soon AlBash Shawarma (197 Locke St. S., Hamilton) Locke Street is the lucky recipient of a new quick lunch spot that will tempt your tastebuds with mouthwatering shawarma and…

This production explores male friendship through the lens of basketball’s larger-than-life LeBron James and the triumph and heartbreak of being a diehard sports fan. It's not necessary to be a basketball devotee in order to enjoy Theatre Aquarius’s debut production of the season, but it sure helps to…

Are human beings born with memories? A new collection of essays by pediatric clinical geneticist Margaret Nowaczyk probes her fascination with the mystery of inherited awareness – what she calls marrow memory. On a dreary afternoon more than two decades ago, Margaret Nowaczyk received the flimsy airmail envelope…

She explores her own cancer diagnosis, loss of loved ones, racism, pain, and global migration through her fibre and fabric art works. I visited Ravinder Ruprai’s short-term studio nestled in an idyllic Strathcona garden where two massive box frames awaited their transformation. One loomed over us on its…