A vacant former knitting mill in Hamilton’s poorest neighbourhood is the first purchase of a unique partnership between the city and a private equity company.

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Colin and Greg Ferguson are living every teenage boy’s dream — they actually get paid to play video games.
The Fergusons are the brothers and brains behind Snakehead Games Inc., a Hamilton-based company that’s created world-renowned online video games.

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A no-mess hay feeder for pets like hamsters and rabbits and a bus tour to reconnect urban dwellers with where their food really comes from are Hamilton’s winners in a provincial agricultural innovation competition.

The five-year-old Premier’s Award for Agri-Food Innovation Excellence honours farmers and farm businesses for new ideas to build the profile of their industry. A ceremony Friday at the Ancaster Fairgrounds honoured 11 regional winners for Hamilton, Halton, Peel, Brant, Niagara and Norfolk.

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As Hamilton ’hoods go, James North needs no introductions — and Ottawa Street is officially one of Canada’s best. But in the background, International Village is quietly beating the odds, building its own character in the downtown core.

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It was a beautiful, sunny day downtown and Gore Park was busy. But it wasn’t just full of traffic and people sitting on park benches. People were curious. Something out of the ordinary was going on.

Tents were set up. People strolled down walkways and peeked in at vendors dotting the park. For a moment, the sound of the fountain drowned out the noises from the street. There was live music. You could order a latte or devour a cupcake. Men in suits, who normally would be rushing by, were among the masses enjoying the park.

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Jeff Crump has an ambitious vision for what is now an uncultivated farm just northwest of Clappison’s Corners.
The internationally trained executive chef and his partners want to combine a thriving restaurant business with a 40-hectare organic farming operation that teaches the public about sustainable agriculture and the appeal of locally grown food.

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When Westinghouse closed a Hamilton factory, two long-time workers rolled the dice and decided they could step in and start up a profitable factory that makes custom products.

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A McMaster University engineering professor sees an opportunity to make some dough out of that Hawaiian pizza baking in the oven.

Jim Cotton, associate director of the McMaster Institute for Energy Studies, has partnered with Pizza Pizza to develop heat recovery units that will use and store at least a portion of the 90 per cent of energy that is wasted from the chain’s pizza ovens.

Cotton says the energy could be used to heat and cool the stores and to power hot water tanks. It can be stored in thermal batteries and there might even be enough to feed some back into the power grid.

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New ideas and products developed in ArcelorMittal laboratories around the world, including one in Hamilton, have helped carve more than 56 kilograms off the weight of a new car.
That’s 14 per cent, and it points the way to job security for 5,200 Hamilton workers.
Dubbed S-In Motion, the catalogue of products and production methods got its Canadian debut Wednesday in a special exhibit at ArcelorMittal Dofasco to an audience of auto and parts makers and industry advocates.

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Maja Prvanovic-Kogut admits moving her jewellery store from comfortable Westdale to battle-scarred downtown Hamilton was a risky, somewhat spontaneous step.

But as she and her father sit in the freshly painted King Street East storefront where she will officially reopen Zoran Designs Wednesday, Prvanovic-Kogut is confident betting on the underdog was the right move.

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