McMaster is now planning to build its family medicine training clinic somewhere else after pulling out of negotiations to buy the Hamilton public school board’s downtown Education Centre.
The university ended two years of negotiations yesterday …

Ontario’s manufacturing heartland felt the full brunt of the recession in May as the province shed almost 60,000 workers, the vast majority full-time employees in the battered manufacturing industry.
The outsized losses in Canada’s most populous …

Have you heard of the DVD called “the Secret”? Well it isn’t such a secret anymore. The DVD was released in March 2006 and according to Time Magazine, the DVD has sold 500,000 units within …

City councillors voted unanimously this afternoon to freeze development charges for one year.
Nearly 300 home builders crowded a city meeting to oppose a proposed $7,000 increase to development fees for new homes. Numerous speakers told …

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Premier Dalton McGuinty wants to use taxpayers’ dollars to sell his controversial 13 per cent harmonized sales tax to Ontarians, sources told the Toronto Star.
But first the Liberals must skirt McGuinty’s own law against …

Jim Balsillie believes a Hamilton-based National Hockey League franchise competing in the Western Conference will prove profitable “from the get-go,” principals for the prospective owner told a media conference call yesterday.
“Mr. Balsillie believes the team …

Balsillie submits relocation bid
An NHL team in Hamilton would play in the NHL’s Western Conference according to an application from the Phoenix Coyotes to move to the Ontario city.
In the club’s official submission to the …

Just a couple of years ago, Canadians could get into the United States with just a verbal declaration of their citizenship.
The game changed in January 2008 when U.S. officials began requiring photo ID and proof …

Everybody knows the auto world has shifted. The trick is divining which brands have got the gumption to last.
Now, with President Obama’s new efficiency standards requiring a fleet-wide fuel economy average of 35.5 miles …

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If you’re heading south of the border, you’ll need to pack a lot of patience and a passport.  

New passport rules take effect June 1st and merchants in southern Ontario are bracing for a summer of …

The federal government skipped over Mohawk College when it decided which halls of higher education would get recession-fighting infrastructure funding.
The province, however, came through with $20 million to bring Mohawk’s funding more in line with …

Jim Balsillie today released details of a plan to have one of the world’s leading architecture firms renovate Hamilton’s Copps Coliseum.
The NHL has indicated that Copps is not up to league standards and Balsillie is …

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Karim Sunderani flicks through channels on a 40-inch high-definition flat panel television at his Mississauga electronics store, Save and Replay. The picture is crystal clear, the sound powerful.
But the stunning HD images don’t come …

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BlackBerry baron Jim Balsillie will this week officially file an application with the NHL to move the Phoenix Coyotes to Hamilton.
And he’s also willing, if the National Hockey League so desires, to forgo dipping …

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Area hospitals are getting $3.4 million to shorten emergency room waits that are among the worst in the province.
It’s part of $55 million the Ministry of Health handed out yesterday to 46 of the …

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