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What the Pan Am Games bring
November 8, 2009 – 12:45 pm | 2 Comments
What the Pan Am Games bring

(Nov 7, 2009) - Hamilton and Burlington form the West Games Zone of the Toronto Pan Am 2015 bid footprint and represent about $170 million of the $708-million capital spending in the $1.4-billion total budget. Here’s what the decision yesterday to award the games to Ontario means to this area.

Toronto/Hamilton wins Pan Am Games bid
November 6, 2009 – 11:17 pm | One Comment
Toronto/Hamilton wins Pan Am Games bid

Toronto will host the 2015 Pan Am Games after beating out two rival South American cities.
The decision came down today in Guadalajara, Mexico, where a team including Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty and Toronto Mayor David …

How the Pan Am Games Could Affect Transit
November 6, 2009 – 12:32 pm | No Comment
How the Pan Am Games Could Affect Transit

(Nov 6, 2009) - If the Golden Horseshoe wins the right to host the 2015 Pan Am Games tonight, it could mean either good news or bad news for the future of rapid transit in Hamilton.

No crowns, but still a magic moment
November 6, 2009 – 12:28 pm | 2 Comments
No crowns, but still a magic moment

For small children perched on shoulders and darting through legs to glimpse a real live prince and his duchess outside Dundurn Castle yesterday, royalty is an odd mix of fairy-tale glamour and everyday banality.

Engineering building will be the ‘face of McMaster University‘
November 5, 2009 – 10:10 am | 2 Comments
Engineering building will be the ‘face of McMaster University‘

There’s a new face on Main Street West in Hamilton: the $48 million Engineering Technology Building at McMaster University. The five-storey, 125,000-square-foot, glass-covered building features state-of-the art learning and research facilities, sustainability systems and novel …

Dundurn set for right royal welcome
November 5, 2009 – 10:02 am | 2 Comments
Dundurn set for right royal welcome

(Nov 5, 2009) - Terry Gerencser doesn’t want to sound immodest.

Do you know someone having a baby? Surprise them with a Diaper Cake.
November 3, 2009 – 2:21 pm | 7 Comments
Do you know someone having a baby? Surprise them with a Diaper Cake.

There is nothing more precious than welcoming a new baby into the world. Friends and family look for the perfect gift to show baby and mom how special they are. In recent years, diaper cakes …

Flu vaccines now available from doctors
November 3, 2009 – 12:51 pm | One Comment
Flu vaccines now available from doctors

(Nov 3, 2009) - H1N1 vaccines going out to Hamilton’s doctors today are expected to ease clinic lineups and ensure only high-risk groups receive the current available doses.

H1N1: The fears, the reality
November 2, 2009 – 10:36 am | No Comment
H1N1: The fears, the reality

(Nov 2, 2009) - Hamilton and Halton are among the communities in Ontario hardest hit by H1N1.

Who has the most trick-or-treaters?
October 31, 2009 – 10:48 am | No Comment
Who has the most trick-or-treaters?

(Oct 31, 2009) - Beware, 0072.03.

Shortage of vaccine forces crackdown
October 31, 2009 – 10:41 am | One Comment
Shortage of vaccine forces crackdown

(Oct 31, 2009) - Hamilton and Halton are expected to run out of flu vaccine in the next two weeks.

City excluded from group going to Pan Am vote
October 29, 2009 – 9:31 am | No Comment
City excluded from group going to Pan Am vote

(Oct 29, 2009) - Hamilton won’t be represented at the 2015 Pan Am Games vote a week tomorrow despite having the most at stake.

Flu fears sweep schools
October 29, 2009 – 9:20 am | One Comment
Flu fears sweep schools

(Oct 29, 2009) - Megan Laurienzo’s English and art assignment is a Grade 8 project, but it’s also social commentary.

Mac still ranked sixth among country’s big research schools
October 28, 2009 – 10:20 am | No Comment

(Oct 28, 2009) - McMaster has held on to its No. 6 spot in the rankings of Canada’s biggest research universities.

A nine-year-old boy drives car off highway after his mother loses consciousness
October 26, 2009 – 9:59 am | No Comment

GRIMSBY, Ont. — A nine-year-old boy tried to save his mother’s life by guiding her car off a busy highway in southern Ontario after she went into medical distress.
On Saturday morning the 43-year-old Campbellville, Ont., …

H1N1 Questions and Answers
October 25, 2009 – 4:33 pm | No Comment
H1N1 Questions and Answers

Who’s vulnerable?
All of us, but especially people with compromised immune systems or underlying medical conditions such as heart and lung problems. Pregnant women, particularly in their second and third trimesters, have a higher risk of …