- Michael Kras
- 07 Jan 2022
A new inclusive coffee shop has opened in Hamilton
A new coffee shop recently opened in Hamilton that’s not like any other café in the city. That’s because The Inclusion Coffeehouse is a community-building initiative that makes space for, and emp...
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- Michael Kras
- 31 Dec 2021
A new teeny tiny art gallery has popped up in Hamilton
A new art gallery has officially opened in Hamilton that holds the distinction of being the city’s smallest. Like, seriously, it’s tiny. The gallery is called the MMOMA, or the Mapleside Museum of...
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- Michael Kras
- 30 Dec 2021
A library for wheelchairs and other assistive devices is opening in Hamilton
A unique and deeply important new library is getting ready to open its doors here in Hamilton; but it’s not the kind you can borrow books from. This new library will loan out wheelchairs, crutches, ...
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- Michael Kras
- 09 Sep 2021
Hamilton’s Festival of Friends will host a one-day ‘Concert in the Park’
Full-scale festivals may not be able to safely return as normal just yet; but Hamilton’s annual Festival of Friends is trying to make the most of it with a one-day outdoor event. Festival of Friends...
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- Michael Kras
- 24 Apr 2021
Period Pop-Ups has set up a pantry of menstrual products at Redchurch Cafe
A wonderful and important charity initiative in Hamilton has set up a new community pantry at another location in the city. Period Pop-Ups, which was founded this year by McMaster University studentsÂ...
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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
- 21 Feb 2021
Cancer screening coach returning to Hamilton area
The Mobile Cancer Screening Coach is returning to the road on February 11 offering cancer screening and smoking cessation to people who usually can’t access it. Launched by Cancer Care Ontario...
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- Michael Kras
- 23 Nov 2020
Hamilton arts venue The Staircase Theatre saved by new management
Artists and arts advocates woke up to some happy news this morning: Hamilton’s enduring arts venue and heritage space, The Staircase Theatre, has been purchased by a trio of local business people wh...
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- Craig Clark
- 29 Oct 2020
How remote learning has failed some LGBTQIA+ youth in Hamilton
The platform used for remote learning in Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board has inadvertently “outed” some transgender and non-binary students by displaying their given names to thei...
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- Craig Clark
- 18 Jun 2020
Two city councillors voice their support to defund the Hamilton police
Ward 1 councillor Maureen Wilson and Ward 3 councillor Nrinder Nann made a public statement where they showed support for defunding local police. The statement was posted as a video of the two council...
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