- Michael Kras
- 16 Apr 2020
Stitch It in Lime Ridge Mall is making protective masks during COVID-19
A well-known clothing alteration service is using its powers for good during the COVID-19 crisis. That would be Stitch It, a chain spot for clothing tailoring and dry cleaning with locations in malls ...
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- Craig Clark
- 14 Apr 2020
This website shows the wait times of Hamilton’s grocery stores during COVID-19
An open source tool created by Florence-based developer Miki Lombardi uses Google data to estimate how long you might have to wait to get into grocery stores in Hamilton and around the world. The inte...
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- Michael Kras
- 14 Apr 2020
Hamilton Bulldogs and the Andlauer family donated $100k to Hamilton Food Share
A generous donation of $100,000 was made to Hamilton Food Share in support of their efforts during COVID-19; a time when the charity and food bank’s services are needed more than ever before. The do...
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- Michael Kras
- 14 Apr 2020
McMaster University researchers are developing a home test for COVID-19
Researchers in the Biointerfaces Institute at Hamilton’s McMaster University are moving quickly to develop and produce a COVID-19 testing kit for home use. The testing kit, which is pushing to move ...
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- Michael Kras
- 13 Apr 2020
Hamilton is expanding its COVID-19 testing, including drive-thru tests
In a new statement, the City of Hamilton has announced its plans to increase and expand testing for COVID-19 in the city, which will also include a drive-thru testing system. The changes to COVID-19 t...
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- Michael Kras
- 11 Apr 2020
City of Hamilton urges locals not to get together for Easter weekend
The usually-celebratory Easter long weekend feels uncannily like any other average weekend this year, as the spread of COVID-19 has brought all plans, gatherings, and unnecessary human contact to a sc...
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- Michael Kras
- 10 Apr 2020
Hamilton Arts Council has launched an artist relief fund and live performance series
With concert venues, rehearsal halls, and theatre spaces shuttered amid COVID-19 and more questions than answers regarding when audiences will be permitted – or willing – to return to live perform...
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- Craig Clark
- 09 Apr 2020
FirstOntario Centre is being converted into a temporary homeless shelter
As Hamilton’s homeless shelters become overcrowded during the COVID-19 pandemic, the city has been working to make FirstOntario Centre into a temporary “surge” shelter for the city&#...
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- Craig Clark
- 09 Apr 2020
Four Hamilton Beer Stores have started collecting empties again
Those who might have accumulated a lot of empty beer cans and bottles while staying home can finally return them again, as four Hamilton Beer Store locations resumed collecting empties this week. The ...
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- Michael Kras
- 09 Apr 2020
This Hamilton restaurant is using GoFundMe to supply meals for frontline workers
With the realities and ramifications of the global COVID-19 pandemic becoming more sobering by the day, a Hamilton restaurant has started an amazing fundraising initiative in support of the people fig...
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