New Ticats stadium to be complete July 1st 2014? I'll believe it when I see it
Hamilton city councillor Lloyd Ferguson is promising that the new Ticats stadium on the current site of Ivor Wynne Stadium will be complete by July 1, 2014. Ferguson is the chair of the city’s stadium sub-committee and is in a position to make the stadium. However, scepticism is…
Stadium plans to be revealed September 24th
Hamiltonians will get to see what the new stadium replacing Ivor Wynne will look like on September 24, 2012. Pan Am Stadium Precinct sub-committee chair Lloyd Ferguson announced the unveiling plans at this week’s sub-committee meeting. The City is also revealing neighbourhood plans during a special GIC meeting…
Locke Street getting another coffee shop? This one in a basement
The apartment building on the northeast corner of Locke Street South and Pine St may soon house a coffee shop in its basement level. The owner of the building is requesting a variance from the City of Hamilton to allow a take-out only coffee shop to be constructed…
1am news release: Supercrawl announces "secret" pop-up show for today at noon
It’s not every night that I receive a news release at 1:00 a.m., let alone an awesome news release at 1:00 a.m. Supercrawl (@Supercrawl) is hosting a FREE concert later today at noon with two great acts – Said The Whale (@SaidTheWhale) and Hamilton’s own Terra Lightfoot (@TerraLightfoot)…
Open Streets should be every weekend
It’s great to walk down the middle of James Street – literally the middle. Open Streets Hamilton opens our historic James Street North to pedestrian traffic and is a great full day festival of civic life unlike any other. There’s no formal attempt to theme the street, things…
Anti-abortion campaign of disgusting images arrives in Hamilton
The group behind the controversial “Genocide Awareness Project”, which compared victims of the Nazi Holocaust to aborted fetuses, arrived in Hamilton with their message on Saturday. The Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform’s “EndtheKilling” campaign which shows graphic images of aborted fetuses set up across the city with activists…
Jimmy Wales calls for people to sign petition against extradition of Richard O'Dwyer
Wikipedia’s founder Jimmy Wales is joining the call for Richard O’Dwyer’s extradition to be stopped. O’Dwyer is to be extradited to the United States for alleged crimes committed in the UK by a website he ran. The charges are criminal infringement of copyright and conspiracy to commit copyright…
A British major who fought side by side with the Japanese in 1945, winning the MC
It’s not every British officer who wins a Military Cross for serving alongside the Japanese in 1945. Major Philip Malins MBE MC, then a captain in the Royal Indian Army Service Corps (RIASC), did just that in fighting alongside the Gurkhas and Japanese infantry to resupply French troops…
Remember Winamp? It's 15
A screenshot of Winamp 1.006 There was a time before iTunes, a time before VLC, when listening to MP3’s could only be done using Windows Media Player or RealPlayer – both of which sucked even more than they do now. There was no such time as “playlists”…
Canada ranks in the bottom half for freedom of information
The Canadian government’s refusal to modernize freedom of information laws means we’re now 51st in the world on a list rating 89 countries with freedom of information laws. We’re behind Mexico, The United States, Columbia, and Uganda among others. Our score on the report compiled by Halifax-based Centre…