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Hamilton Spectator: Hamilton’s Parkdale Landing was to provide safer supportive housing — but then a murder happened

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To mark World News Day on September 28, 2022, the World News Day campaign is sharing stories that have had a significant social impact. This particular story, which was shared by the Hamilton Spectator, was first published on April 28, 2022.

A look inside Indwell’s Parkdale Landing, where drug-dealing visitors have posed such challenges the non-profit says it will never build another high-needs building so large.

The problem isn’t so much the folks who live at Parkdale Landing. 

It’s those who don’t…

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Hamilton Spectator: Stunning crisis in legal system jeopardizes ‘tsunami’ of Hamilton criminal cases

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To mark World News Day on September 28, 2022, the World News Day campaign is sharing stories that have had a significant social impact. This particular story, which was shared by the Hamilton Spectator, was first published on April 13, 2022.

Court backlogs are causing trials to be heard — and even scheduled — outside of the legal time frame.

An unprecedented number of trials in Hamilton’s Ontario Court of Justice — including a homicide — are in jeopardy of being tossed out because of the backlogged system is setting dates beyond the legal time limit. 

Already, a second-degree murder case is being considered for a stay of proceedings because it has dragged on for so long…

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Hamilton Spectator: More than a year after COVID outbreak claimed 20 lives, family wonders how Shalom Village can still fail provincial inspection

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Michelle Capriotti’s mother died in early 2021 during a COVID outbreak at the Westdale long-term care home; she wonders how the facility can still be flagged for not following ministry protocols for infection prevention in February 2022.

Michelle Capriotti threatened to bang on the windows of Shalom Village until someone helped her ailing mom. 

The Westdale long-term care home was in the midst of one of the city’s worst COVID outbreaks in December 2020 with no visitors allowed. Her formerly robust 79-year-old mom, Winnie Capriotti, was rapidly becoming increasingly ill with fever, chills and dehydration.  

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Hamilton Spectator: Experts say dramatic decline of Joseph Brant patient is a symptom of a crisis in health care

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Ken O’Leary was walking, talking and preparing for a cruise. After being admitted to the Burlington hospital, he rapidly declined. Four months later, he was dead in a hospice. The hospital says he received ‘appropriate care.’

Ken O’Leary could walk, shower, shave and feed himself when he arrived at Joseph Brant Hospital. 

The 87-year-old Burlington man loved eating on a restaurant patio, hanging out in the backyard with his grandkids or watching a Toronto Maple Leafs hockey game in September 2021… 

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Hamilton Spectator: Hamilton grandparents, mom, children squeezed into homelessness

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No more hotel rooms available for families as shelter operators look outside city for options.

With no place to call home since August, it has been a long, trying haul. 

But Carla Fakes hopes the ordeal will be a foggy memory — if at all — for her grandchildren. 

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Hamilton Spectator: Homeless in Hamilton: Out of parks but still on the margins

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Fewer tents are visible amid ramped-up bylaw enforcement but the crisis persists. 

When the strangers approached late one night to ask her to break a $50 bill, dog and owner alike sensed danger. 

“Henry was not having any of that. He wasn’t even interested in them sticking around for a short conversation,” Alana Sim recalls… 

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Hamilton Spectator: Hamilton police helped her escape human trafficking. Now she’s rebuilding her life

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She was rescued in February 2020. Now the 22-year-old has an apartment, a job and is planning to go back to school. 

She remembers hearing shouts of “get down, get down” before her captors started running. 

She wondered if they were being robbed. Then she realized it was Hamilton police. She was being rescued. 

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Hamilton Spectator: Blanche Dingle died in her Dundas retirement home — and wasn’t found for 36 hours

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Inspection reports reveal Amica neglected the 91-year-old resident, failing to do required wellness checks.

Blanche Dingle was the happiest she’d been in a long time during her eight-month stay at the Amica Dundas retirement home. 

Living among friends in her new home, the 91-year-old retired bookkeeper was freed from the pandemic isolation that had steadily chipped away at her mental and emotional well-being… 

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Hamilton Spectator: Ghosts in the Villa: How an identity theft scheme funnelled $1.2 million out of Hamilton’s Villa Italia retirement home

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Villa Italia executive director Pat Mostacci, former chair of Festitalia, is accused of being the architect of a seven-year-long fraud and embezzlement plot.

The banquet was vintage Pat Mostacci. 

Held in the opulence of the Michelangelo Event and Conference Centre in Hamilton, the spring 2017 event was attended by the city’s glitterati, leaders of the local Italian community and even the mayor… 

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Hamilton Spectator: The city’s deadly secret: How a damning report about the Red Hill was kept hidden for years until The Spectator forced its release

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An inquiry into Hamilton’s Red Hill Valley Parkway reveals how officials focused on liability — not safety or transparency — when releasing a friction report about the road where people were dying in crashes.

Nearly 13 hours had passed since the start of a city council meeting, including six hours behind closed doors, when Hamilton’s acting city manager emerged from the closed session and publicly revealed something shocking…

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