Posts by The Hamilton Spectator
Overdose crisis: Messages of hope and despair at Gage Park
August 29, 2019
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The page discusses the overdose crisis and its impact on the community around Gage Park, highlighting both hopeful and despairing perspectives.
Editorial: More political will needed to fight housing crisis
August 27, 2019
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Cities, Hamilton included, are struggling mightily to repair existing housing stock and find ways for new stock to be built.
Innovative Hamilton affordable housing project gets nearly $2M in federal cash — and national attention
August 27, 2019
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The Hughson Street Baptist Church is building a new home that will be topped with 45 supportive housing units managed by Indwell. It could be a model for faith communities across Canada, they say.
Jeff Mahoney: Two kids, taking a ‘stand’ for community, and giving it back to Indwell’s The Commons in Hamilton
August 12, 2019
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If you’re supposed to make lemonade when life gives you lemons, as they say, what are you supposed to do when life (or mom) skips the lemons and goes right to giving you the lemonade, already made?
Why, you make a lemonade stand, of course. It’s summertime, after all. And so to move the saying forward: if life gives you a lemonade stand, make lemonade sales, at 50 cents a cup.
And lastly, if life gives you money from lemonade sales (more than you ever expected), what should you make then? A trip to the toy store? No, if you’re Brady and Jesse Dutra, what you make is a … difference.
Protesters interrupt provincial housing announcement in Hamilton
July 23, 2019
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Hamilton stands to receive roughly $20 million in provincial funding toward housing and anti-homelessness initiatives this year and next.
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