- Craig Clark
- 17 Mar 2021
Employees at Hamilton’s Tokyo Smoke agree to unionize
Staff at Stoney Creek cannabis retailer Tokyo Smoke Rymal voted last Friday in favour of unionizing and became the second group of pot shop employees to start a union. They decided to unionize with UF...
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- Craig Clark
- 15 Mar 2021
Hamilton’s Staircase Theatre now offering bubble movie screenings
Restaurant and theatre combo People Under The Staircase is now offering bubble rentals of their theatre space for private gatherings. The restaurant on Dundurn Street – which is the resurrecti...
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- Craig Clark
- 12 Mar 2021
Patio season is coming early to Burlington
Burlington city council met earlier this week to approve an earlier start date for its temporary patio program. Local restaurants can now apply to have their patio open as early as April 15th, 2021. ð...
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- Craig Clark
- 12 Mar 2021
Some Hamilton residents can get a free tree for their backyard
If you own a home in Hamilton’s Ward 3, then you might be able to get yourself a free tree to plant in your backyard. The city has committed to increasing the Urban Tree Canopy from 21 per cent to 3...
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- Craig Clark
- 09 Mar 2021
Burlington company wins funding to develop a new way of recycling textiles
The Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Jonathan Wilkinson, announced the four winners of the latest Canadian Plastics Innovation Challenge last week who are looking for a better way to recyc...
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- Craig Clark
- 08 Mar 2021
Hamilton’s first BIPOC film festival is launching this year
This year marks the first Hamilton Black Film Festival that looks to showcase cultural, traditional, and modern films of African, Caribbean, Indigenious, East and South Asian, and Middle Eastern filmm...
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- Craig Clark
- 05 Mar 2021
This youth centre in Grimsby got a Mike Holmes transformation
The FORT Youth Centre in Grimsby and West Lincoln will be featured on the season finale of Canadian home-reno star Mike Holmes’ newest series Holmes Family Effect. Each episode of the new series fea...
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- Craig Clark
- 04 Mar 2021
Hamilton skate shop launches an adult shoe and boot drive
The Local Skateshop on John South in Hamilton is asking anyone with new or used adult shoes to drop them off at the store as part of their shoe drive throughout the whole month of March. They are curr...
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- Craig Clark
- 03 Mar 2021
Hamilton Spectator owners are launching an online casino
Torstar Corporation, owners of the Hamilton Spectator, announced this week that they will be launching an online betting brand this year. The brand will be within the regulated Ontario online gaming m...
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- Craig Clark
- 03 Mar 2021
Canada and Ontario to invest in culture and recreation infrastructure in Hamilton
It was announced last week that Canada and Ontario will be providing joint funding to support three culture and recreation infrastructure improvement projects in Hamilton. The three facilities that ...
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