Jon Wells
Writer at The Hamilton Spectator (Hamilton, ON)
Writer at The Hamilton Spectator. Author of Poison, Sniper, Vanished, Post-Mortem, Death’s Shadow, and Heat. Western poli-sci/Carleton M.J.
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1 week ago |
thespec.com | Jon Wells
The legendary British psychedelic rock group, at the height of their popularity coming off the “Dark Side of the Moon” album and soon to release “Wish You Were Here,” played to 52,000 fans in a working-class neighbourhood in east Hamilton. It was the biggest concert ever in the city — by comparison the next largest, Hamilton’s Arkells in 2018 at Tim Hortons Field, drew about 25,000.
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1 week ago |
thespec.com | Jon Wells
Hamilton’s downtown does not always soar, but the same cannot be said of its most reliably impressive attraction: peregrine falcons, that have nested atop the Sheraton Hotel on King Street West for a 31st consecutive year. I wrote about Steeltown’s birds of prey 28 years ago, also in June, three weeks into my career at The Spec.
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1 week ago |
thespec.com | Jon Wells
Ten months ago, a Superior Court judge dismissed John Dunford’s claim that Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) should be held liable for sexual assaults he says he suffered 40 years ago at the hands of “Cool School” founder and tutor Dr. James Anderson. Tuesday, the Court of Appeal for Ontario released a decision that rejected Dunford’s appeal of that ruling.
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2 weeks ago |
thespec.com | Jon Wells
Going — and rowing — the “extra mile” to save a life? Off the clock? Good news worth sharing in detail. When Andrew Poustie set out in a small rowboat to help a capsized kayaker in lethally cold water, his mind went there. In the moment, the Hamilton police officer reflected that the risk with a water rescue, is the rescuer dies trying to help. If this guy pulls me in the water, I might die from hypothermia. But if I don’t get out there, the other guy will die for sure.
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2 weeks ago |
thespec.com | Jon Wells
It was a hot, moonlit night. A man on a bicycle spotted the body off a path by Lake Ontario. At 3:20 a.m. a police officer snapped photos and jotted notes:Male victim, face down in the grass wearing boxers, shirt, socks, running shoe on right foot, left shoe removed; track pants, bloodstained, inside out, 86 metres from the body. Wounds on back of the head; welts on the back. Police ran the plate of a car nearby. It belonged to Frank Figliola, who lived three kilometres away.
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