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Michael Kras
18 Jan 2024

Hamilton passes anti-renoviction bylaw

Hamilton city council has passed a bylaw that will combat bad faith renovictions for renters in the city. Renovictions are instances when landlords evict tenants by claiming to complete major renova...

Michael Kras
30 Mar 2023

Hamilton passes 2023 budget targeting housing, transit, health

Hamilton city council has passed the 2023 Tax Operating Budget that will see an overall tax increase to residents at 5.85 per cent. The increase – which is lower than the initially proposed 6.7 pe...

Michael Kras
25 Oct 2022

Andrea Horwath elected new Mayor of Hamilton

In a history-making result for the 2022 municipal election, Andrea Horwath has been elected the new Mayor of Hamilton. The former Ontario NDP leader is Hamilton’s first female mayor after an electio...

Michael Kras
12 May 2022

Hamilton councillors vote to convert Main Street to two-way traffic

Hamilton city council has voted to convert Main Street to two-way traffic. This comes after numerous pedestrian deaths and injuries that have happened along the street recently, signalling a need for ...

Michael Kras
29 Apr 2022

Hamilton will keep vaccine mandate for city employees in place

Hamilton city council has voted to maintain its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for all city employees. The city’s policy requires all employees – including full-time, part-time, permanent, temporary, ca...

Michael Kras
01 Apr 2022

Hamilton looks to ban heavy trucks on downtown streets

Hamilton is one step closer to having the insufferable roar and imposing presence of heavy trucks banned from roadways downtown and in surrounding neighbourhoods. The city’s truck route subcommittee...

Michael Kras
14 Jan 2022

Hamilton requiring all city employees to be vaccinated by May 31st

The City of Hamilton has introduced a new requirement for all city employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or provide a valid medical exemption by May 31st, 2022. City council voted to amend...

Michael Kras
28 Oct 2021

Hamilton asks locals to ensure trashcans have easily removable lids

The City of Hamilton wants locals to ensure that their trashcans have lids that can be easily removed by waste collection employees on garbage day; and a failure to do so could result in a wound to th...

Craig Clark
10 Jul 2021

Hamilton councillors vote not to remove John A Macdonald statue from Gore Park

Although the city received 1,002 messages calling for the John A Macdonald statue to be removed, the city council voted to keep the monument in Gore Park. The motion to remove the statue of Canada&#...

Michael Kras
10 Jun 2021

Hamilton city council approves plans for downtown entertainment precinct

Hamilton city council has officially approved an agreement that will see the Hamilton Urban Precinct Entertainment Group L.P (or ‘Precinct Group’) take control of the city’s largest entertainmen...