John Best

The Hamilton Music Collective's Jazz series, downtown Hamilton's premier jazz concert series, is back this fall. Composers, vocalists, and jazz heavyweights take the stage in the HMC's upcoming fall jazz concert series. All proceeds support An Instrument For Every Child.

Individuals driving around with drugs and weapons in the vehicle would be well advised to obey all traffic rules. A vehicle driving Saturday in the area of East Main Street in Welland was pulled over for failure to signal a turn, and before it was all over police had seized a large quality of drugs and weapons and arrested two men.

The Hamilton Community Foundation is one of three partners providing funding for what is likely be the most comprehensive municipal election candidate survey attempted in Ontario

The Hamilton Police Service is actively searching for 15-year-old Mason Buchanan, who was last seen in Hamilton between approximately 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. last Friday, Mason was last observed getting into a white Dodge Durango. Mason's family is concerned for his well-being and is appealing directly to him to please contact home and let his family know that he is safe. Mason is described as: Male, Brown, approximately 5'8″ tall and 185 pounds. Mason has a muscular build, brown eyes and curly black hair. He has a fresh scrape on his right arm from a recent scooter accident. At the time he was last seen, Mason was wearing solid grey shorts with black and white edging, a black T-shirt and was carrying an All-black “Sprayland” backpack. He was wearing black Balenciaga shoes with grey reflectors.

Hamilton Police have seized five guns after a report of shots fired on Mud Street East in Upper Stoney Creek but have released several individuals who had been arrested. The weapons seized include an SKS rifle and a shotgun. The incident unfolded on Sunday at approximately 6:36pm, when officers responded to a shots fired call at an address on Mud Street East. Upon arrival, officers observed several individuals fleeing the area on foot. Police quickly secured the scene and arrested multiple individuals. As the investigation progressed, officers located and seized five firearms from the property, including an SKS rifle and a shotgun. Several individuals were taken into custody and later released pending further investigation.

Hamilton's Board of Health has called on CN rail to electrify its marshalling yard at Suart Street amid neighbourhood complaints about noise from engines left idling 24 hours a day. The motion would see Kroetsch as Board of Health chair, write senior governments asking them to “take all necessary regulatory action to compel Canadian National Railway to electrify its rail networks, beginning with shunting yards that are in proximity to residential dwellings, including the Stuart Street Yard.” The motion also calls for collecting pollution data in the area and the creation of a publicly accessible dashboard where the public and see the results.

Over 300 people attended the supervisors’ meeting. Emotions ran high as the public had a chance to comment on the proposed deal.

Canadian politicians are becoming familiar faces on the US cable news channels since the collapse of trade talks with the United States and Donald Trump's imposition of further tariffs on Canadian goods. Ontario Premier Doug Ford was all over US TV with his “kiss my ass,” remark directed to Trump, although he was in a semi apologetic mode today when interviewed on CNN, admitting that things got a bit out of hand yesterday.

The Hamilton Spectator's Code Red series of articles more than a decade ago shone a spotlight on the disparity in health outcomes between the city's inner city wards, especially in the north end when compared to more affluent parts of the city. Some residents are telling the Bay Observer, that disparity also exists when it comes to public safety. Ward Three residents in the area of Jack Beemer Park have been repeatedly complaining about what they see as a half-hearted and inconsistent approach to encampments and open drug use in the park. The park, at the corner of Victoria and Wilson has a children's playground and a public washroom and the residents complain that area children are constantly exposed to passed-out drug users, evidence of defecation and sometimes violent behavior.

Baseball fans who came out to Bernie Arbour Stadium Sunday to see a former Major League all-star in action got shortchanged.