Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
A Canadian couple in Hamilton, Ontario, agreed to court-ordered chemotherapy for their 11-year-old son they claim doesn't want to have the treatment anymore.
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
HARTSVILLE, S.C.--()--Curbside recycling has become a convenient and popular way for the public, businesses and environmentalists to reduce their dependency on landfills. It reduces waste in landfills and increases the amount of materials being recycled into new products. On May 2, 2008, the City of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, announced it would begin accepting rigid paperboard cans, made...
News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
The father of an 11-year-old Canadian boy removed from the man's custody to undergo cancer chemotherapy treatment has hired a Toronto lawyer.The boy, who can't be identified, was at a hospital in Hamilton, Ontario, last Thursday for tests when Children's Aid Society workers took temporary custody of him, and he was kept for treatment, the Globe and Mail reported.Medical staff members...
Dalhousie Dirt Dot Com (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
The Hamilton and the Scourge located on the bottom of Lake Ontario near the shoreline of Port Dalhousie are going through some pro-active studies and examinations to see what can be done to protect these ship wrecks from 1813.You can...
VirtueOnline (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
ONTARIO: Members move church services by Rachel De Lazzer The Hamilton Spectator http://www.thespec.com/News/Local/article/366967 May 10, 2008 Members of two Anglican churches are choosing not to worship in their buildings tomorrow in the wake of a court order that they share the facilities with the diocese they have left. A Superior Court ruling on Monday required three breakaway churches...
News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
The wrecks of two U.S. warships that sank in a storm in Lake Ontario in 1813 are set to be explored by Canadian scientists using submersible high-tech robotics.Beginning Monday, a five-day, around-the-clock operation will begin in 300 feet of water about nine miles off the shore of Hamilton, Ontario, which is on the western end of Lake Ontario.Some 50 sailors' remains are...
Quillblog (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Authors Paul Quarrington, David Adams Richards, and Emily Perkins all read and spoke at an event held at the Leander Boat Club in Hamilton, Ontario, Monday, May 5, 2008. The event was hosted by bookseller Bryan Prince and A Different Drummer Books. (Photos courtesy of A Different Drummer.) Emily Perkins and Bryan Prince. Paul Quarrington signs books [...]
Stereogum (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
We don't know too much about Hamilton, Ontario quartet Young Rival, but "4:15"'s been sounding good on repeat listens, so we wanted to post it. We do know they recorded their forthcoming album with Emery Dobyns, a Grammy winner who's also turned knobs for Antony, Battles, and Patti Smith. Also, they went on tour with the Sadies in Canada last fall and Born Ruffians this spring. Not bad,...
Thinking Anglicans (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
In Ontario, the civil court has ruled that church buildings must be shared pending the outcome of litigation. Canadian Press Breakaway Anglicans to share churches with diocese, Ont. judge rules Hamilton Spectator Anglican churches awarded joint custody Toronto Globe &...
VirtueOnline (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
CANADA: Parishioners disappointed by court decision Churches told to share church space ANiC News May 5, 2008 A judge in the Ontario Superior Court in Hamilton, Madam Justice Milanetti, has ordered three southern Ontario Anglican Network in Canada (ANiC) parishes to share their building facilities with a diocese of the Anglican Church of Canada pending the resolution of a trial...
Zatz Not Funny! (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
Canada’s national television network, Global, is now broadcasting in HD in the Metropolitan Toronto and Golden Horseshoe areas of Ontario on their Hamilton (CHCH) and Toronto (CIII) affiliates. Global is Canada’s last major nationwide network to start broadcasting in HD. It was facing a June 2008 hard deadline imposed by the CRTC to begin broadcasting. [...]
Raw Story (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008
A Hamilton man Tasered by police is in hospital after the stun gun ignited a "flammable object" in his pants, burning him. The incident is under review by Ontario's Special Investigations Unit, which probes all police-related deaths and serious injuries. According to the SIU, police were called to a Queenston Road apartment in Hamilton's east end around 9 p.m. Thursday.
Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 04/22/2008
The manufacturing sector has been gutted over the past five years, with more than 140,000 jobs being lost in Ontario alone. But, as Tyler Hamilton wrote in his blog today, there is a skill and labour crisis in the energy sector. Hamilton points out that the energy sector is facing a significant shortage of skilled workers who are able to build, manage and maintain green technologies...
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 04/21/2008
A Hamilton landlord has been sentenced to 135 days in jail for violating Ontario's fire code.Hamilton's chief fire prevention officer Jim Winn says it's the toughest sentence he's seen in about 30 years. The landlord, Stephen Birch, was convicted five months ago of fire-code violations and spent 70 days behind bars.
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 04/19/2008
A Hamilton man tasered by police was in hospital yesterday with burns after the stun gun ignited something flammable in his pants.The incident is being reviewed by Ontario's Special Investigations Unit, which probes all police-related deaths and serious injuries.
