From his original small sketches to his prints now on display at Earls Court Gallery, Matt Mcinnes has documented the human side of Hamilton’s LRT project.

  There is no gloss to his work, no fantasy images of streets sans overhead wires with washed and dried passengers stepping off  a sleek train car.

   Mcinnes’s work shows buildings about to be ghosted. The mournful apartments,  variety stores, a diner and a thrift shop. His pencil and paper tour of King Street East, particularly between Sherman and Gage seems held together with plywood, and wobbly fencing.

“I for one thing, didn’t want them to look like architectural renderings,” Mcinnes says.

And they do not. They speak more to the messiness of life, to neighbourhoods in transition and the mystery of where did the people go who worked here and lived here.

    Mcinnes day job as he calls it is doing studio management for Centre 3 on James Street North, working in their traditional and screen printing studio.

   Making prints from his drawings Mcinnes says suits the documentation of this LRT corridor, where the condition of buildings changes unpredictably.

  “I’ve always kind of liked the idea that you’re losing a little bit of control over your initial artwork. No matter how controlled you can make your (print) practice there is always an element of surprise in your line.”

  As an artist long interested in documenting social histories, the LRT route captured his attention in 2019. It was a landscape soon to be altered by bulldozer.

  He began drawing and talking to people on the street, people that were losing thier homes and their businesses.

  When the owners of Martin’s bowling decided reluctantly to sell to Metrolinx, Mcinnes went bowling there. Already people were trying to buy their chunk of history.

  “The lanes were marked by hand numbered wooden letters, people were there trying to buy the old chrome fire extinguishers, it was jam-packed.”

  You won’t find sanitized tidiness in Mcinnes’s work.

  Not for him are the airbrushed depictions of Hamilton’s noble buildings. Instead the blighted streetscapes draws his eye.

  The entranceway lathered in graffiti where the mail piles up and orders to comply flap in the wind as HSR busses belch by. The buildings still have a pulse.

  “I do like drawing people, but I find I have  more of an affinity for the buildings. I really like to think of them as representing people,” Mcinnes says as he speaks about a print entitled “951-953 King Street East.” 

  “I particularly liked the ones that had  fencing and hoarding around them because that kind of pins down a specific time,” Mcinnes says, a time when Metrolinx was tearing down buildings and leaving behind a geography of nowhere.

  Some believe an LRT will transform Hamilton. Mcinnes’s show “Abandoned Variety Store 4” let’s the viewer decide, but not before documenting the buildings and the stories they told.

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The show which also includes prints depicting the slow motion decay of the Jamesville housing project runs until the end of Saturday at Earls Court Gallery at 215 Ottawa Street North.

It will be online until end of day Monday.

 https://www.earlscourtgallery.ca/abandonedvarietystore4

London West Liberal MP Arielle Kayabaga was given a position in Mark Carney's cabinet during the Prime Minister's swearing-in ceremony in Ottawa, early Friday afternoon.

With the owner’s consent, the city has designated a property in the Stinson neighbourhood under the Ontario Heritage Act, as being a property of cultural heritage value. The property located at 105 Erie Avenue is comprised of a brick residence constructed circa 1893. It has design value as a representative example of the vernacular Queen Anne Revival architectural style in Hamilton, and also displays a high degree of craftsmanship. The property has historical value for its association with Hamilton builders Brown & McBeath and with prominent Hamilton architect Alfred Wavell Peene (1869-1940), who is attributed to the circa 1908 rear addition and alterations, and the Bartmann family, who owned the property for over 80 years. The property is also linked to, and supports, its surroundings as part of the surviving late-nineteenth to early-twentieth century residential streetscape in Stinson, one of Hamilton’s historic neighbourhoods.

What Designation means

• Designation requires a property owner to seek approval to make any alterations or changes that may impact the designated heritage attributes or the Reasons for Designation.
• Designation requires the property owner to seek the permission of Council to demolish a designated structure.
• In the event of change of ownership, the new owner of a designated property must give notice of the change of ownership to the Clerk within 30 days after becoming owner of the property.
• Owners of designated properties shall maintain the heritage property and its heritage features in a safe and secure condition.

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow seems more than ready for the beleaguered Eglinton Crosstown LRT to finally open after years of delays mired the process.

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has denied an injunction by a group of cyclists that sought to stop the province from removing bike lanes in Toronto until a court challenge is heard. 

The province's chief medical officer of health is urging Ontarians to make sure they are immunized against the measles amid the most severe outbreak in the province in more than a decade.

The Powassan, Ont., man accused of stealing one of the world's most famous portraits from the Château Laurier and switching it for a fake during a COVID-19 lockdown has pleaded guilty to 3 of 6 charges.

Niagara Regional Police Service hit the jackpot when they executed a search warrant on a Lincoln residence.

In a search of the residence yesterday police recovered the following large cache of drugs:

350 grams of suspected Fentanyl (value $33,000)

1 kilogram of suspected crystal methamphetamine (value $15,000)

253 grams of suspected cocaine (value $17,000)

1250 tablets of suspected hydromorphone (value $1250)

30 tablets of suspected ketamine (value $300)

27 tablets of suspected Percocet (value $270)

500ml of suspected Gamma Hydroxybutyrate (GHB) (value $300)

18 grams of suspected psilocybin (value $100)

Loaded Taurus handgun with a high-capacity magazine

$2,255 in Canadian currency

Christopher Duclos (40 years) of Niagara Falls has been arrested and charged with numerous drug charges as well as possession of a firearm while prohibited.

Duclos was held in custody and has a court appearance scheduled for today.

Anyone with information about this investigation is asked to contact detectives at 905-688-4111, dial option #3, extension #1009667.

Members of the public who wish to provide information anonymously are encouraged to contact Crime Stoppers of Niagara online or by calling 1-800-222-TIPS (8477). 

TOWN OF KINGSVILLE
REGULAR MEETING OF COUNCIL
AGENDA

Monday, March 17, 2025
6:00 – 10:00 PM
Unico Community Centre
37 Beech Street Kingsville, ON
N9Y 1A9

The Agenda for the Council meeting is available on our website. View the meeting via Livestream at the time of the proceedings at https://www.kingsville.ca/livestream

Please contact the Clerk at [email protected] for information pertaining to this agenda or to arrange for any additional accessibility needs.

Event Details

Agenda (PDF):
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Agenda (HTML): 
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On Sunday, March 16th Hydro One is working on M5 Feeder that will require an outage that affects all of E.L.K. customers in Kingsville.

The planned outage will be starting at 7:30AM and will last approximately one hour.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

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Preliminary work on construction of the watermain for the new west side collector road extending Heritage Road to Road 2 West will begin on Monday, March 17, 2025 and continue throughout the year. The watermain will service the south western portion of Kingsville.

The project was approved by Council earlier this year.

See the archived page on HaveYourSayKingsville for the project outline

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The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit asks anyone who visited the location(s) listed below on the identified date(s) to monitor themselves for symptoms of measles for 7 to 21 days from the date of exposure. Individuals can contact a health care provider to review their immunity status.

For those who were exposed at the Erie Shores Walk-in Clinic and are unvaccinated, the WECHU strongly recommends a dose of vaccine to help prevent a Measles infection before the end of the day Friday, March 14th.

The Emergency Department at Erie Shores HealthCare (Hospital) will be offering a measles vaccine clinic for exposed individuals on Friday, March 14 at 8:30am until 7:00pm. When you arrive at the hospital, please call the Emergency Department before entering at 519-326-2373 and press 4400. This will allow the team to schedule your arrival and limit exposure.

If you are immunocompromised, have a child (children) 12 months of age or younger, or are pregnant, please contact the WECHU as soon as possible to confirm whether there are additional treatments that may be available to you.

If this applies to you, please call 519-258-2146 ext. 1420.

Possible Public Exposure Locations:

Erie Shores Walk-In Clinic
33 Princess Street, Leamington, ON, N8H 5C5
Tuesday, March 11, 2025 12:30pm- 5:30pm
Main building entrance, Erie Shores Walk-In Clinic waiting room

Real Canadian Superstore Talbot Street
201 Talbot Street East, Leamington, ON, N8H 3X5
Saturday, March 8, 2025 11:00am – 1:30pm
Main entrance

Image by DoroT Schenk from Pixabay

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A recent sudden death in Leamington is now being investigated as a homicide.

On March 12, 2025, at approximately 2:36 p.m., members of the Essex County Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and Essex-Windsor Emergency Medical Services responded to a well-being check at a residence on Sherk Street, where one person was found deceased.

The deceased has been identified as Anita Goodings, 83 years old of Leamington.

A postmortem was conducted by the Ontario Forensic Pathology Service and determined the death was a result of a homicide.

Police have a limited description of a person of interest in connection with this investigation. They are described as a white male with a muscular build. Anyone with any information is urged to contact police.

Investigators believe this to be an isolated incident. Members of the community can expect to see an increased police presence as the investigation continues.

The investigation is being conducted by the Essex County OPP Crime Unit under the direction of the OPP Criminal Investigation Branch, with assistance from the OPP Forensic Identification Services and the OPP Emergency Response Team, and in conjunction with the Office of the Chief Coroner and Ontario Forensic Pathology Service.

Anyone with any information about this investigation is asked to contact the Essex County OPP at 1-888-310-1122 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) or ontariocrimestoppers.ca.

Further updates will be provided when they become available.

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The Town of Kingsville is dedicated to expanding our recreational programs. See what’s happening in Kingsville the week of March 17, 2025.

Monday, March 17

• Drop-In Indoor Pickleball – 7:30 am to 1:00 pm – Kingsville Arena
• Adult Skate – 9:00 am to 9:50 am – Kingsville Arena
• Sweat and Shine! – 9:30 am to 10:15 am – Kingsville Arena
• Shinny – 10:00 am to 10:50 am – Kingsville Arena
• Home School Skate – 12:00 pm to 12:50 pm – Kingsville Arena
• Home School Shinny – 1:00 pm to 1:50 pm – Kingsville Arena
• Tai Chi All Levels – 7:15 pm to 8:15 pm – Lakeside Park Pavilion

Tuesday, March 18

• Senior Shinny – 8:00 am to 8:50 am – Kingsville Arena
• Parent and Tot Skate – 9:00 am to 9:50 am – Kingsville Arena
• Drop-In Parents & Tots (10mnts – 4 years) – 9:30 am to 12:00 pm – Kingsville Arena
• Chair Exercise and Stretch – 9:30 am to 10:15 am – Kingsville Arena
• Creative 55+ Art Class – 10:30 am to 12:30 pm – Carnegie Arts & Visitor Centre – Registration Required

Wednesday, March 19

• Drop-In Indoor Pickleball – 7:30 am to 1:00 pm – Kingsville Arena
• Adult Skate – 9:00 am to 9:50 am – Kingsville Arena
• Shinny – 10:00 am to 10:50 am – Kingsville Arena
• Home School Skate – 12:00 pm to 12:50 pm – Kingsville Arena
• Home School Shinny – 1:00 pm to 1:50 pm – Kingsville Arena
• Public Skating – 3:00 pm to 4:20 pm – Kingsville Arena
• Kingsville Painters Guild – 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm – Grovedale Arts and Culture Centre

Thursday, March 20

• Drop-In Indoor Pickleball – 7:30 am to 12:00 pm – Kingsville Arena
• Drop-In Indoor Badminton – 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm – Kingsville Arena
• Public Skating – 3:00 pm to 4:20 pm – Kingsville Arena
• Drop-In Corn Hole Toss – 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm – Kingsville Arena

Friday, March 21

• Drop-In Indoor Pickleball – 7:30 am to 12:00 pm – Kingsville Arena
• Adult Skate – 9:00 am to 9:50 am – Kingsville Arena
• Shinny – 10:00 am to 10:50 am – Kingsville Arena
• Parent and Tot Skate – 11:00 am to 11:50 am – Kingsville Arena
• School Skate – 12:00 pm to 12:50 pm – Kingsville Arena
• School Shinny – 1:00 pm to 1:50 pm – Kingsville Arena

Saturday, March 22

• Public Skating – 4:30 pm to 6:10 pm – Kingsville Arena

Sunday, March 23

• Drop-In Parents & Tots (10 Months to 6 Years) – 10:00 am to 12:00 pm – Kingsville Arena: Auditorium A

Visit our online recreation portal at Kingsville Click and Play to register and to see specific details (such as fees). Drop-in programs do not require registration.

Explore Kingsville’s Community Calendar to discover more events hosted by various groups in the area. We can’t wait to welcome you next week!

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Ontario Provincial Police say a one-year-old child and 66-year-old woman died in a fire in a trailer park Thursday evening. Three other people were injured.

Ontario Provincial Police say 3 people were killed and another seriously injured in a fiery head-on crash on County Road 2 in South Glengarry Thursday night.

Critics and stakeholders are responding harshly to the news that the Outaouais health network CISSSO is cutting up to 800 jobs.

Hundreds of patients at Western University's Employee & Family Health Clinic will be out of a doctor by mid-August. The university says the clinic was always intended for full-time main campus staff, but patients who work at the affiliate colleges say this is new information to them.

At John Street S. and Jackson Street E., the body of water has for years formed with the spring thaw, inspiring photographers, printmakers and Reddit users to celebrate what would otherwise be a hazardous mess. 

After narrowly missing an Olympic medal on the track in Paris last summer, Canadian distance runner Moh Ahmed is scheduled to make his long-awaited half marathon debut Sunday at 7 a.m. ET in New York City.

Five years on, Toronto-area doctors and public health officials are looking back at what they've learned since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic — and most agree the early experience will prove useful if the city faces another infectious disease crisis.

When U.S. President Donald Trump points to Canadian tariffs on dairy, he's making an important omission.

Neighbouring residents and businesses say the arrival of Northwood Recovery on Somerset Street W. has brought an upsurge in open drug use and dealing to their doorsteps.

A company with steel plants in Quebec and Ontario, including one facility located east of Ottawa, says it's laying off more than 100 workers due to challenging market conditions — including threatened U.S. tariffs that have now taken effect.

It can start with selling an old coat on Facebook Marketplace and lead to a fraudster gaining access to your bank account. The CBC's Sannah Choi digs into a scam police say is becoming increasingly common.

Chris Binkowski, better known as Bucko, uses painting and electronic music as a way to connect and raise the profile of artists with disabilities.

If you're emergency preparedness plan is a bit of a disaster, the city of London offers a free two-day course with the basics in how to survive at home through a major emergency.

Liberal Leader Mark Carney will officially become Canada's next prime minister within a few hours, taking the reins as the country barrels toward a general election and continues to fend off verbal and economic attacks from U.S. President Donald Trump.

Two people have been arrested and charged in connection with the fatal shooting of a Brampton man last April, Peel Regional Police say.

Watch this U Sports men's basketball quarter-final between the University of Calgary Dinos and the Queen's University Gaels from the University of British Columbia's War Memorial Gym in Vancouver.

Canada's Brooklyn McDougall, Beatrice Lamarche and Ivanie Blondin won silver in the women's team sprint Thursday to open the ISU world speed skating championship.

The 75 new cameras are being installed in community safety zones where speeding's a problem, says the city's general manager of transportation services.