Mayor Andrea Horwath is on her way to Washington D.C. hoping to meet United States congressional representatives and senators during the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative’s annual Great ...

Since the beginning of 2025, Hamilton City Council is experiencing repeated quorum issues. On Feb 18, a meeting was cancelled due to a lack of councillors showing up. On Jan 21 and 22, meetings began ...

Conservative Premier Doug Ford’s early provincial election has a silver-lining for Ontario’s municipal councils: they no longer have to appoint interim councillors during municipal elections.

Doug Ford made a point of focusing his campaign stops at now-Conservative union halls and unionized workplaces: he wanted Windsor West but did get Hamilton Mountain.

The Hamilton Centre NDP will now try to overcome the internal divisions of the past 18 months. It will fall to nearly elected MPP Dr. Robin Lennox to lead the efforts.

Sarah Jama places a distant fourth place in Hamilton Centre, and Kojo Damptey places third in Hamilton Mountain.

In 2023, I had coffee with a big city mayor who explained to me there are three municipal issues that people get very upset about: dog parks, bike lanes, and pickleball. In North Saanich, a group of ...

Sarnia moved quickly to end a notorious encampment site, with the police chief citing the Hamilton decision in enforcing the Sarnia City Council’s decision. I wrote about the Rainbow Park encampment ...

Three of Hamilton’s five ridings have above provincial average advance voting turnout, with Hamilton Centre up from the 2023 by-election advance turnout Voters in Hamilton West-Ancaster-Dundas were ...

New candidates brought good ideas and good spirits to our suffering elections - I hope we'll see all of them return for the 2026 municipal election.