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Sep 18, 2026

🍂 Summer Ends on Saturday Afternoon

🌽 Binbrook Fall Fair, 🏃 four Terry Fox Runs, 🚣 dragon boat racing at Bayfront, 🔓 Sundays Unlocked on Locke. Use Friday while you can.

Sep 16, 2026

🎡 The Binbrook Fair Turns 173 This Weekend

Three days of rodeo, demolition derby and livestock competition at the fairgrounds. Note that the gates close to entry at 9:00 PM on Friday and Saturday. Also this week: the Ticats host Montreal for the Hall of Fame game.

Sep 14, 2026

🚌 99%, Not Counting the Buses That Never Came

Council was told the HSR hit its service standard and missed 14 trips. The count leaves out the cancelled school and McMaster runs. Plus a planning vote council knew it couldn't win.

Sep 11, 2026

🎨 Everyone Is on James North. Here's the Rest of the City.

🍷 Taste of Dundas Sunday, 🔮 Pagan Pride turns 25 in Gage Park, 🚛 kids climb snowplows at Pier 8, and where to eat with no queue.

Sep 9, 2026

🚧 James Street North Closes Thursday Night and Does Not Reopen Until Monday

Supercrawl brings The Halluci Nation, Protest the Hero and 60 more acts to a kilometre of downtown, free. Here is the stage schedule, the road closures, and what else is on.

Sep 7, 2026

🎓 School Attendance Counts for Marks Now. The City Bus Might Not Come.

Ontario's new grading rules start tomorrow. So does a transit shortage the HSR cannot put a date on. Plus a tornado warning and a byelection result.

Sep 4, 2026

🧵 Hamilton Helped Invent Labour Day. Monday Is the Proof.

🌽 Corn Fest closes Concession Street Saturday, 🌮 Street Eats takes over Lime Ridge, 🎉 and the parade steps off at 10:30 Monday. Sep 4–7.

Sep 2, 2026

🎨 The First Supercrawl Drew 3,000 People on a Rainy Night. Last Year It Drew 285,000.

The festival takes over James Street North next weekend. This week is quiet by design, apart from the best crowd Hamilton produces all year on Monday afternoon.