Category: People & Events

Comedian and television host Craig Ferguson is sure to start the New Year off on a funny note when he comes to Hamilton Place on January 24 for an evening of hilarity.

Help get inspired this holiday season with The Seasons Christmas Show.

Rewind the clock back to 1992 and Blue Jays fever gripped the country like a snapback cap one size too small. Yet in the midst of Jays mania there was also another craze sweeping the nation: home brewed beer.

Don Smith has a dream. He wants to take 33 million Canadians to Sierra Leone for a day. “Seeing this developing country, would change everyone's attitude in Canada.

On a warm summer afternoon in May, guests arrived at the Hasanee-Hussain residence. The mood and the greetings were as warm as the mid-afternoon sun as guests drifted through the patio doors and down the terraced garden to the beckoning lake.

It was 1898 when Lady Aberdeen, Ishbel Gordon founded the first service club in Canada, The May Court Club. Also renowned for originating the Victorian Order of Nurses, Lady Aberdeen, wife of Canada's then Governor General was a dedicated reformer that propelled analogous women into helping those less fortunate.

From the inception of a print to the fabrics and dyes used, 25-year-old Christina Obuch, owner and founder of textile studio Hatchet Made, grounds her work in nature. Collecting things she's found while hiking or walking around the city, the Oakville-born and current Hamilton resident uses these gathered goodies as the inspiration for her prints or to make homemade, natural dyes.

For years, actress Ashley Burton shared stories with friends about her hilarious Sicilian family. But in the summer of 2008, when Burton ran into an acquaintance, something “magical” happened.