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Sebastian Bron

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Reporter @thespec

 Hamilton, Ontario
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Hamilton, Halton and Toronto police services suspend use of Crime Stoppers amid massive data breach thespec.com/news/hamilton-re… via @thespec #HamOnt
Canadian Crime Stoppers data affected by cybersecurity breach

Canadian Crime Stoppers data affected by cybersecurity breach

Halton and Toronto police have suspended their use of Crime Stoppers.

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Ontario government, city launch Hamilton tariff response team as steelworker layoffs continue thespec.com/news/hamilton-re… via @thespec #HamOnt
Ontario government, city launch Hamilton tariff response team as steelworker layoffs continue

Ontario government, city launch Hamilton tariff response team as steelworker layoffs continue

More than $390,000 in provincial funding is behind the initiative, which is meant to help local businesses navigate complex relief programs and diversify supply chains

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Hamilton man pleads guilty to gun charges after Club 33 shooting, but doesn't admit to being the shooter thespec.com/news/crime/club-… via @thespec #HamOnt
Club 33 shooting: Accused pleads guilty to gun charges

Club 33 shooting: Accused pleads guilty to gun charges

Corey Parnell admits he was armed outside Hamilton’s Club 33 when three were shot in 2024, but evidence couldn’t identify the shooter

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Latitude pilot remembered as 'best flight instructor I ever had' thespec.com/news/hamilton-re… via @thespec #HamOnt
pilot remembered as 'best flight instructor I ever had'

pilot remembered as 'best flight instructor I ever had'

Phil Childerhose could have pursued a major airline career, but a former student and friend says he found his calling in medevac flying and teaching others

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Investigators head to Nantucket to hunt for Hamilton air ambulance's black boxes thespec.com/news/hamilton-re… via @thespec
Investigators sent to search for Hamilton air ambulance

Investigators sent to search for Hamilton air ambulance

Canadian and U.S. investigators are heading to Nantucket to help locate the Latitude Air Gulfstream’s fuselage and black boxes after the Bermuda-to-Boston medevac flight vanished with six aboard

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Coast Guard suspends search of missing medical transport aircraft off

BOSTON— The Coast Guard has suspended its search Sunday, Oct. 4, 2026 for the six passengers aboard the missing medical transport aircraft off the coast of Nantucket.At approximately 2 a.m., Saturday,

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Search for missing Hamilton air ambulance continues, priority is finding survivors: U.S. coast guard thespec.com/news/hamilton-re… via @thespec #HamOnt
U.S. Coast Guard suspends search for survivors of missing Hamilton air ambulance jet

U.S. Coast Guard suspends search for survivors of missing Hamilton air ambulance jet

Debris field located off Nantucket, black box remains missing

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#UPDATE: The CGC William Sparling will continue search efforts throughout the night for the 6 people aboard the Gulfstream Aircraft that went missing this morning.
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Hamilton air ambulance jet missing off Nantucket coast #HamOnt thespec.com/news/hamilton-re…
'You declaring an emergency or no?' Hamilton air ambulance jet missing off coast of Nantucket

'You declaring an emergency or no?' Hamilton air ambulance jet missing off coast of Nantucket

A Hamilton-based air ambulance jet with six aboard missing off Nantucket; extensive search efforts ongoing.

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Grimsby man at centre of Supreme Court of Canada case involving delays in massive drug investigation pleads guilty thespec.com/news/crime/grims… via @thespec #HamOnt
Guilty plea in massive Ontario drug bust

Guilty plea in massive Ontario drug bust

The case became the subject of a major legal battle over the Supreme Court’s Jordan framework, which generally requires criminal cases to be completed within 18 months in provincial court and 30...

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Hamilton man sentenced to 15 months in jail for sexually assaulting teen he followed off bus thespec.com/news/crime/hamil… via @thespec #HamOnt
Hamilton girl fearful of public transit following stranger attack

Hamilton girl fearful of public transit following stranger attack

Hamilton man sentenced to jail after following teenage girl off bus, onto dark trail

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Attack in Stoney Creek is 4th stranger stabbing in 2 months. But Hamilton police say 'unprovoked' incidents are rare thespec.com/news/crime/attac… via @thespec #HamOnt
Attack in Stoney Creek is 4th stranger stabbing in 2 months. But police say 'unprovoked' incidents...

Attack in Stoney Creek is 4th stranger stabbing in 2 months. But police say 'unprovoked' incidents...

Investigators are still trying to identify the suspect who stabbed a woman reading at a bus shelter.

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Ontario court certifies class-action suit against youth group home operator thespec.com/news/hamilton-re… via @thespec #HamOnt
Class-action suit against youth group home operater

Class-action suit against youth group home operater

The lead plaintiff alleges he was repeatedly restrained and overmedicated in an Ontario group home operated by Hatts Off.

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Is Hamilton a dangerous city? Is crime out of control? Here's what three mayoral front runners have to say #HamOnt thespec.com/news/municipal-e… via @thespec
Is Hamilton a dangerous city? Here's what three mayoral candidates have to say

Is Hamilton a dangerous city? Here's what three mayoral candidates have to say

All three front-runners say the downtown needs attention. But they disagree over whether crime is out of control — and what should be done about it.

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Cocaine importer hit with $855,000 tax lien on Hamilton home targeted by shootings, break-ins thespec.com/news/crime/cra-p… via @thespec #HamOnt
Canada Revenue Agency registered an $855,000 tax lien on a west Mountain home rocked by multiple...

Canada Revenue Agency registered an $855,000 tax lien on a west Mountain home rocked by multiple...

The Canada Revenue Agency registered the lien days after the property was reportedly sold and shortly before the home was again shot at.

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Siblings lived near Hamilton pool but didn't know how to swim. Could their tragic drowning deaths be a lesson for all Ontario? thespec.com/news/hamilton-re… via @thespec #HamOnt
Siblings lived near pool but didn't know how to swim. Could their tragic drowning deaths be a...

Siblings lived near pool but didn't know how to swim. Could their tragic drowning deaths be a...

After losing two grandchildren in a drowning, Michael Williams wants Ontario to make classroom water-safety lessons mandatory

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Hamilton's fire chief warns of rising fire risks from lithium-ion batteries thespec.com/news/hamilton-re… via @thespec #HamOnt
Hamilton’s fire chief warns of rising fire risks from lithium-ion batteries

Hamilton’s fire chief warns of rising fire risks from lithium-ion batteries

Hamilton’s fire chief highlights the dangers of lithium-ion batteries, calling for stricter regulations due to a rise in incidents this year.

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'Grow up!': Judge blasts father's bid to reclaim family cat in already backlogged Hamilton courts thespec.com/news/hamilton-re… via @thespec #HamOnt

‘Grow up!’: Judge blasts father’s bid to reclaim family cat in already backlogged Hamilton courts

The judge called the motion “an abomination” as families wait months to resolve serious disputes over children.

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Hamilton man was 'directly involved' in theft of over 60 luxury vehicles thespec.com/news/crime/hamil… via @thespec #HamOnt
Hamilton man was ‘directly involved’ in theft of over 60 luxury vehicles

Hamilton man was ‘directly involved’ in theft of over 60 luxury vehicles

Bashdar Kader pleaded guilty to his part in an organized-crime ring that stole luxury cars from Hamilton-area driveways and trafficked them to overseas markets including Africa and the Middle East.

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Former Ancaster man pleads guilty to $5.3-million investment fraud thespec.com/news/crime/forme… via @thespec #HamOnt
Former Ancaster man pleads guilty to $5.3-million investment fraud

Former Ancaster man pleads guilty to $5.3-million investment fraud

Ian Ross McSevney siphoned money pitched for mortgage loans into personal expenses and Ponzi-style payouts.

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