05-05-2025
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- Hamilton Spectator
Hamilton-area Today: ‘I'll always take free food' says 17-year-old restaurant critic + Toasted Tesla obstructs traffic
G
ood morning! It's May 5, here are the top stories today in the Hamilton area.
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Hamilton student Giuseppe Palermo rates restaurants. The 17-year-old is filming a series of reviews for his peers at St. John Henry Newman Catholic Secondary School in Stoney Creek.
A scorched E-vehicle was to blame for hours of lane closures Saturday. The Tesla was difficult to extinguish, provincial police said and 'kept reigniting.'
Council's attempt to axe a developer's tree-chopping plan contradicted planning staff's recommendation for the Ancaster site. The plan to remove hundreds of trees has left some advocates wondering how a forest could be classified as 'neighbourhoods' in the area's secondary plan.
A 40-year-old man was arrested on the Mountain by police Friday night, hours after three people were injured in a stabbing at the Hamilton Downtown Mosque.
Despite an election loss to a Liberal Mississauga resident, outgoing Hamilton Centre MP Matthew Green isn't seeing red. He's already planning a fight to take the seat back next election.
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