Books and Brews, the Book Fair for Adults IS BACK!
May 23rd, 12β5pm, Collective Arts, 207 Burlington St E., Hamilton, ON - come see Little Ghosts Books, Aaron Millard Illustration, Stelliform Press, Wolsak & Wynn, Bookhug, and The City & City Books. Come out for great drinks and the best indie reads.
#HamOnt #HamiltonON #HamOntArts #HamOntEvents #BookFair #IndiePress #SmallPress #CanLit #CanadianPublishing #SpeculativeFiction #BookCulture #CraftBeer #OntarioEvents #StelliformPress
Niagara braces for spike in overdoses that Hamilton saw after its supervised drug consumption site closed
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/safe-consumption-site-overdoses-hart-hubs-9.7184342
#Canada #Ontario #CdnPoli #OnPoli #Niagara #HamiltonON #Addiction #SubstanceUse #HealthCare
A woman pushing all her worldly belongings down St. Paul Street in downtown St. Catharines in a beat-up shopping cart struggled to keep her pants, far too large for her, from falling around her ankles. So Graham Shaw walked out of the Mahtay Cafe and Lounge he owns with a long piece of string that he used to fashion a makeshift belt. "I don't know how to not care about people who are in my community, whether you're housed or not, or whether you're a substance user or not," he said.
Opening date announced for Hamilton HART Hub's long-awaited residential treatment site
Province also recently announced a HART hub for Niagara Region
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/hamilton-hart-hub-9.7166665
#Ontario #OnPoli #homelessness #addiction #HamiltonON #Niagara
A year after an Ontario-funded homelessness and addictions recovery treatment (HART) hub was announced for Hamilton, the organization approved to run the centre has announced an opening date for a bed-based site.
thinking about political cartoons and went and found this one from an old FB post that caused a lot of discussion, from the Hamilton Spectator in around 2017. truly a braindead message but objectively hilarious imagery IMO.
"So much for the tolerant left" in boomer political cartoon form
Lister Block, once a crown jewel of the downtown Hamilton exploration scene, and is now fully restored and didn't end up being a parking lot.
http://www.alexluyckx.com/blog/2026/02/19/between-darkness-light-lister-block/
#urbanexploration #hamiltonON #urbex #photography #history #urbanscape
Ontario Normal College, Hamilton, Ontario, c.1910s - Postcard
Dundurn Park, Hamilton, Ontario, c.1905-10 - Postcard
https://www.ebid.net/uk/for-sale/dundurn-park-hamilton-ontario-c-1905-10-postcard-222932859.htm
What do Hamilton, Glass, and the MCU all have in common? Why the Consumer's Glass Hamilton Works, of course!
http://www.alexluyckx.com/blog/2025/03/20/between-darkness-light-consumers-glass-hamilton-works/
#urbanexploration #urbex #photography #history #photography #hamiltonON
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