We need to build more homes – of all kinds – in Hamilton. That means understanding that we can’t simultaneously hold fast on the urban boundary while fighting intensification in existing neighbourhoods. We are in a housing crisis, in Hamilton specifically and across Canadian cities more broadly. The…

PHOTOS BY BRENT PERNIAC, DONNA WAXMAN AND GARY GREEN Canadian singer-songwriter Jully Black was the headliner at It’s Your Festival, July 2.Lisa Mercanti-Ladd and Ian Ladd at the Imagine Summer Gala of the Rotary Club of Hamilton AM, Aug. 11. Proceeds went to Keaton’s House, a pediatric hospice…

Six days of events ahead of the CFL’s championship game in November, will showcase the best of Hamilton. When two teams line up for the 6 p.m. kickoff of the 110th Grey Cup at Tim Hortons Field on Nov. 19, it will mark the 12th time Hamilton has…

Artist Julia Veenstra and her family have opened a gallery and café on Ottawa Street North that aims to elevate artists and make art accessible. Many great new business ventures were dreamed up during the pandemic. That’s the story of Crown & Press.

His Depression-themed, worker-centred art is considered an ‘irreplaceable’ historical record. Hutchinson understood what it meant to be marginalized. Leonard Hutchinson is best known for evocative 1930s Depression-themed and Japanese-style woodblock prints of working people and places like barns, mills, homes, and landscape in and around Hamilton.  In his…

Theatre Aquarius’s holiday family show will be the world premiere of Pollyanna The Musical and HAMILTON CITY Magazine will show you just what it takes to get to opening night. It’s a rare work of art that produces a protagonist so iconic that she becomes part of the…

Super Tonics by Lake & Oak Tea Co.’s Meredith Youngson shares recipes for ‘nourishing, feel-good beverages’ that maximize health benefits. 2023 has been a big year, so far, for entrepreneur and holistic nutritionist Meredith Youngson. The founder of the popular Hamilton-based tea company…

Kris Noakes has a genetic form of the motor neuron condition known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. She’s leading a ride in Dundas that aims to raise money and awareness about the devastating disease.  Kris Noakes found out two years ago, at the age of 48, that she has…