Provincial and municipal elections have been in the same year since 2014 - causing vacancy headaches for municipal councils.

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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Doug Ford, Marit Stiles, and Bonnie Crombie all visit Hamilton on the last day of campaigning - it must be close ...

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Three of Hamilton's five ridings have above provincial average advance voting turnout, with Hamilton Centre up from the 2023 by-election advance turnout ...

Hamilton West-Ancaster-Dundas advance poll turnout was 8.15 percent, with 7,749 ballots cast. During the 2022 general election, 12,959 advance ballots were cast in HWAD, 13.8 percent of eligible ...

A letter from Hamilton Farmers’ Market manager Donna Lee Macdonald to merchants yesterday confirmed the City believes money was siphoned from vendors.