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Record-breaking dive coaster coming to Canada’s Wonderland @WonderlandNews thespec.com/news-story/88394…
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As @BTS_twt kick off their #BTSLoveYourselfTour in #HamOnt, have a behind the scenes look at the hundreds of staff, thousands of hours of preparation, and millions of dollars it took to get #BTSinCanada. @EmmaatTheSpec's report here:
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Equipped with a laptop, syringes and Pfizer doses — and his two kids in tow — Dr. Joe Oliver is a walking vaccine clinic. If he spots you, he’ll politely ask if you want a shot, @teviahmoro reports #HamOnt
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Loblaws is apologizing to #HamOnt customers of a Main Street No Frills after the wide online circulation of photo of a mouse in a bag of bread at the store
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When Toronto suspect said ‘kill me,’ @TorontoPolice officer, Ken Lam put away his gun. Now cops around the world are watching thespec.com/news-story/85685…
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Anne Whittle, 95, has kept busy during COVID knitting Harry Styles jackets for her granddaughters here and in England. Now, their friends are placing orders, Jeff Mahoney writes #HamOnt
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A six-pound rock thrown from a Michigan overpass killed a father. Now 5 teens are charged with murder | thespec.com/news-story/76808…
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Toronto will soon be home to North America's first known sex doll brothel, offering sexual services with six silicone-made dolls thespec.com/news-story/88649…
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Get a glimpse of the excitement in downtown Hamilton as fans gather for the #BTSLoveYourselfTour by Korean pop sensation @bts_bighit.
@BTS_twt will perform three concerts at the First Ontario Centre this September.
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The Canadian government is taking its cross-border trade dispute with the U.S. up a notch, unveiling a final list of $16.6-billion worth of American imports that will be hit with retaliatory tariffs this weekend.
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Hamilton turned black and pink to welcome a Korean girl band.
About 17,000 people gathered at FirstOntario Centre Sunday and the same number was expected Monday to see @BLACKPINK in their “Born Pink” tour, @BeaBaleeiro reports #HamOnt
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#BREAKING | Hamilton Centre will remain an Ontario NDP stronghold after candidate Sarah Jama won the lower-city riding in a byelection Thursday #HamOnt
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Let the screaming begin: Korean pop sensation BTS in #HamOnt thespec.com/whatson-story/89…
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McMaster viral immunologist fears spread of bird flu virus with ‘staggering’ death rate
‘I have never been more worried in my career than I am about H5N1,’ Matthew Miller says in Q and A.
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Brantford police are investigating after a billboard showing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a Nazi uniform next to Adolf Hitler was erected in the city’s downtown, @sebibron reports #HamOnt
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#OPINION | If you need a teacher to let you know what’s going on with your kid, you might want to take hard look at your parenting skills, writes Drew Edwards.
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Melina Roberge broke down in tears when the Sydney court handed down the sentence, which includes a nonparole period of 4 years and 9 months in prison for her role in a cocaine cruise thespec.com/news-story/84017…
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Hamilton has zero new cases of #COVID19, while just three COVID patients remain in hospital #HamOnt
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First Nations leaders are pressing Ontario to abandon plans to develop former Greenbelt lands in Hamilton and across the GTA in the wake of a scathing auditor-general report, @Mattatthespec reports
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"I am not a liar person:" ‘Teen’ basketball player says he didn’t know he was 29 bit.ly/1Twhjnm
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Hamilton’s public school board @HWDSB has voted to defy the province and keep masks in place for students and staff until April 15, @jfrketich and @katejmccullough report #HamOnt
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Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) is taking down its temporary field hospital only a month after opening and without seeing a single patient @maria9860 reports #HamOnt
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The three shows - the only Canadian dates on #BTS's first North American tour - are drawing fans from across the continent, many spending thousands of dollars each on tickets, flights, hotels, meals and merchandise, writes @RockatTheSpec. #BTSinHamilton
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Martin Regg Cohn | When you have a shape-shifting premier who resizes and rezones the Greenbelt at will — in defiance of the public will and his own personal vow — you have a land scandal without boundaries
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Southwest Airlines asks women flying with her biracial son for 'proof' she’s his mother thespec.com/news-story/86393…
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Meet Ralph. He's the creation of the @cityofhamilton horticultural staff #HamOnt thespec.com/news-story/86411…
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A Hamilton-area provincial election Progressive Conservative candidate says the decision to skip a local all-candidates’ debate next week was made by the Ontario PC party, not him #HamOnt #ontariovotes
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The hunt for a serial mail bomber began late Tuesday when Secret Service personnel conducting standard mail screenings found a pipe bomb inside a plain manila envelope with a bubble-wrapped interior addressed to former secretary of state Hillary Clinton thespec.com/news-story/89878…
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Kids with COVID flock to ER at McMaster Children’s Hospital
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I didn't realize I had stereotypes about K-pop (Korean pop music), writes Jeff Mahoney. #BTSLoveYourselfTour
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Thirty-one years.
That's how long Ontario mom, Lyneth Mann-Lewis, waited to be reunited with her son, how long she held out hope she would one day hold him again, for the first time since he was a baby.
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#ICYMI: #OPINION
Stop the fearmongering. Stop the childishness
Here’s the bigger problem when you run around screaming the country is broken. Some people hear that and start to believe it’s true, writes Steve Buist.
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Philanthropists Charles and Margaret Juravinski have donated millions to health care in #HamOnt, but never has it been directed at such an immediate crisis. The couple announced they are giving $3.3 million toward fighting COVID-19 @jonjwells reports
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#OPINION | We need to stop funding the premier’s personal vanity projects
Doug Ford fiddling with Ontario’s alcohol market is latest in fiscally-reckless moves, writes Chris Erl thespec.com/opinion/contribu…
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Surrounded by supporters and flanked by a Palestinian flag, @SarahJama_ drew defiant lines in the sand Tuesday, vowing not to back down from her critics, @GrantRants reports
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In the wake of Hamilton’s SpinCo outbreak, Ontario’s associate chief medical officer of health says the province will “reconsider” existing guidelines for spin studios and other gym settings, @KatrinaAClarke reports #HamOnt
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle say social media is harming kids' and teens' mental health
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⚡ The crisis at Hamilton’s children’s hospital is getting worse with a surge of viral illness leading to record overcrowding.
Occupancy is over 140 per cent at @mch_childrens — up from 135 per cent last week, @jfrketich reports #HamOnt
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Only four boxes of COVID test kits were distributed to each of two Niagara LCBO, said St. Catharines MPP Jennie Stevens, an effort she called a "publicity stunt" given the regional population and " magnitude of transmission.”
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In front of a joyous crowd of 8,663 yellow-towel-waving, wave-doing, we-want-the-Cup chanting, ref-jeering fans on Sunday afternoon, @BulldogsOHL beat the Soo Greyhounds 5-4 in an instant classic and in the process, won their first OHL title. thespec.com/sports-story/860…
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High-profile builders purchased an Ancaster Greenbelt property just weeks before Ontario announced plans to strip development protections from the area, @teviahmoro and @mattatthespec report #HamOnt #OnPoli
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Ontario government’s Health Connect Ontario help, line staffed by registered nurses, is referring patients they believe should see a doctor to a virtual service that charges $55 for a single live chat — which is not covered by OHIP.
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Hamilton artist part of design team for McDonald’s Doodles holiday cups
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Fast-food chain expected to print roughly 110 million of the cups, which will be used in around 14,000 stores across the U.S.
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"It’s so horrible:" Five-year-old Camila Torcato, fatally pinned between vehicles in a parking lot, had battled cancer | TheSpec.com thespec.com/news-story/80757…
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The Spectator's view: Every voter and every taxpayer in Ontario can — and we think should — heartily agree that Premier Doug Ford is wrong to use their money to peddle his carbon-tax bashing propaganda in a government ad campaign.
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The owner of Adamson Barbecue has been charged after attempting to open, one day after the city’s top doctor ordered the Etobicoke restaurant closed for violating #COVID19 restrictions
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Defying a horrendous forecast calling for thunderstorms, @arkellsmusic pulled off the biggest show ever staged by a Hamilton rock band, writes @rockatthespec. Photos by @Scottatthespec thespec.com/whatson-story/86…
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Owner of Adamson Barbecue led away in handcuffs Thursday as protesters clash with police
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Saleem and Swarsh Mian, who own Punjab International in east Hamilton, raised $80,000 for Hamilton General Hospital to purchase medical equipment after they say they both received excellent hospital care and wanted to give back thespec.com/news-story/83362…
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Mayor Andrea Horwath is urging the Ontario government to ditch its plan to remove swaths of the Greenbelt for housing development after a scathing report by the provincial auditor general, @TeviahMoro reports #HamOnt
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The @arkellsmusic are Olympics bound #HamOnt @TeamCanada @tessavirtue @ScottMoir #OlympicGames2018 thespec.com/whatson-story/81…
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The man and woman arrested following the fatal shooting of an OPP officer have both been charged with first-degree murder
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Counterparts Brendan Murphy talks about the band’s new album, the state of hardcore music in southern Ontario and his transparency with fans #HamOnt
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Of the roughly 1,600 sex education consultation submissions obtained by The Canadian Press, only about two dozen messages spoke in favour of the Progressive Conservative government’s decision to repeal the modernized 2015 curriculum.
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#OPINION | When it comes to Highway 413, farmers, city dwellers, suburbanites and car users are mostly united: they don’t want it, Gideon Forman writes thespec.com/opinion/contribu…
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Swedish teen activist @GretaThunberg took a break from campaigning on behalf the Earth to hang out with fellow vegan and Earth lover @EstherThePig
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A dozen or so years ago @arkellsmusic were McMaster students sharing a house on Arkell Street in Westdale with dreams of rock stardom. thespec.com/news-story/86851…
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Chantal Hébert | Pierre Poilievre’s tendency to overreach at the expense of hard facts mostly comes across as a symptom of political immaturity #OPINION
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An incident where a female pedestrian was stuck by a vehicle in the parking lot of a Walmart on Centennial Parkway North in Stoney Creek has prompted police to investigate it further as a hate crime thespec.com/news-story/87681…
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Billionaires don’t like Ottawa’s capital gains tax hike, but you should: It’s an overdue step toward making our tax system fairer thespec.com/business/billion…
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CHCH TV sportscaster Clint ‘Bubba’ O’Neil remains in hospital in Burlington after a scary few days battling COVID-19, @radleyatthespec reports #HamOnt
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Weatherman in Halifax finds scorpion in his Costco bananas | TheSpec.com thespec.com/news-story/75009…
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Chokha Bayez, 20, identified as motorcycle rider killed in downtown Hamilton crash thespec.com/news-story/68392…
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Pierre Poilievre’s recent actions are raising concerns.
Today's editorial cartoon by Graeme MacKay, Hamilton Spectator Editorial Cartoonist #oped
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At the long-term care home in Ancaster where Sarah works, over 125 residents haven’t seen family for nearly a month.
Sarah sits with your mom. Holds your grandma’s hand. Helps your dad work an iPad so he can “visit” family, Lorraine Sommerfeld writes.
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Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) gives signed guitar to home of Darwin, the Ikea monkey
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Turkstra Lumber taking vaccine policy a step further by placing unvaccinated workers on leave, @fallonhewitt_ reports #HamOnt
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Canada’s Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, Ahmed Hussen, visited his former school, Hamilton’s Sir John A. Macdonald Friday. He made it back just in time, as the school closes its doors for good in just over a month, writes @jonjwells. torstar.co/e2lm50uhf0f
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Hamilton council voted unanimously Friday to ask the province to abandon its Greenbelt plans, @TeviahMoro reports #HamOnt
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Stoney Creek crosswalk honours fallen soldiers #RemembranceDay thespec.com/news/stoney-cree…
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Hamilton Conservation Authority is asking Ontario’s auditor general to investigate “extremely damaging changes” Doug Ford’s government made to how wetlands are evaluated #HamOnt
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Dellen Millard and Mark Smich guilty in Laura Babcock’s death
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A slice of #HamOnt history. Who remembers the Hillcrest banquet centre at the southwest corner of Concession and Upper Wentworth?
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#Breaking: Harry Howell, the greatest hockey player Hamilton has ever produced, has died. He was 86.
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Our Black community has always known it. Now statistics confirm it.
@HamiltonPolice disproportionately use force against Black people in this city compared to other groups of people, @susanclairmont writes #HamOnt
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Are you a part of the #BTSARMY? See if you can ace our #BTS quiz. #BTSinHamilton #BTSinCanada
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The Haudenosaunee Confederacy announced a moratorium on all development within the Haldimand Tract Monday. That's an area of more than 950,000 acres that runs 10 kilometres along both sides of the Grand River, @jpantonacci reports
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"If people can be really that selfish to call to complain about a service that saves children's lives, and also to occupy the 911 line for this kind of thing, then they do deserve to be fined."
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Hamilton activist Sarah Jama: ‘I make people feel uncomfortable sometimes’
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A Burlington lawyer accused of lowballing a neighbour with dementia to buy her home, then allegedly trying to destroy evidence of it, had her licence suspended by the Law Society Tribunal of Ontario, writes @susanclairmont
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King William Street will close to cars for pandemic patio expansions — and dozens of similar requests are under consideration across Hamilton, @Mattatthespec reports #HamOnt
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A small group of protesters hijacked part of the Hamilton Labour Day Parade, preventing the Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liuna group from leaving with the main march #LabourDay #HamOnt @JustinTrudeau
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#BREAKING Radius restaurant is the site of the city’s latest outbreak.
The news comes as positive cases at SpinCo climbed to 72 Thursday, with one new patron infected and two new secondary contacts infected, reports @KatrinaAClarke #HamOnt
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Today is Lincoln Alexander Day. It is a national day of recognition held every Jan. 21 to honour one of Hamilton’s most historic and distinguished figures. Here's what you should know about this treasured Hamiltonian #HamOnt
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Hamilton’s major hospitals are officially free of #COVID19 patients — at least for now #HamOnt
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#OPINION | Premier Doug Ford's recklessness threatens to rupture the very genius that makes our judicial system work: namely, the absolute independence and impartiality of its linchpins — our judges, writes Dermot Nolan. thespec.com/opinion/contribu…
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NDP Leader Marit Stiles promises to "shine light in every corner" of the Ford government, with the legislature returning Monday following summer break #OnPoli
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Taxpayers will foot the full $18.3-million bill for last year’s devastating cyberattack because the City of Hamilton had not instituted the layers of IT system security required by its cyber insurance policy.
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An NDP government would provide Ontarians with dental benefits and pay off students' post-secondary loans, said leader Andrea Horwath in a speech Saturday that gave a glimpse into her party's election platform #OnPoli @OntarioNDP
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Police chief Mark Saunders is resigning from the @TorontoPolice as of July 31, eight months before his contract was set to expire
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BREAKING: It's a SNOW DAY in #HamOnt for public and Catholic students. @MohawkCollege and @McMasterU have also cancelled classes for today. All @HWDSB and @HWCDSB are CANCELLED today
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Editorial: Eisenberger and LRT proponents can honestly claim to have fought and won the election fair and square. The returning mayor can absolutely say he has an LRT mandate from the voters of Hamilton thespec.com/opinion-story/89…
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In today's letters | "All you hear is don't drink and drive ... So, what does our government do? Allow sales of beer and wine at corner stores and gas stations," writes Rusty Escott thespec.com/opinion/letters-… #HamOnt
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.@SnoopDogg tours medical marijuana greenhouse in Niagara-On-The_lake thespec.com/news-story/69410…
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