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From their site: Our goal is not only to help meet the needs of our clients in the short term, but also to help clients become self-sufficient and gain and maintain self-worth / esteem to eventually stand on their own with little or no help.
The Hamilton Blues Lovers (HBL) want to showcase a deserving local charity every week. HBL is not affiliated with these charities nor does it fund raise for them.
Pictured: Muddy Water (left) with Richard "King Biscuit Boy" Newell
In a special to the Hamilton Spectator on June 6, 2009, King Biscuit Boy's brother, Waller R. Newell, wrote about his legendary sibling's life. Waller offered insights into the music man's career: meeting members of the Beatles, working with Aretha Franklin, and more. He also discussed his brother's intellectual side.
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From their website: Since 1966, the poverty of loneliness and exclusion has been overcome with friendship and compassion at Welcome Inn Community Centre, where people from all walks of life work together to alleviate poverty in the North End and across Hamilton.
The Hamilton Blues Lovers (HBL) want to showcase a deserving local charity every week. HBL is not affiliated with these charities nor does it fund raise for them.
Hamilton's Stefan Gnys only made 12 copies of his album Horizoning when he first released it in 1969. Thanks to some YouTube exposure, a record company is now making it much less rare.
Hamilton's Superstar Crush received a rave review for their debut album, Way Too Much in the December 18, 2025 edition of the prestigious New Yorker magazine.
Barry Truax, C.M. (Vancouver, British Columbia) - Authority in acoustic communication and electroacoustic music, composer, original member of the World Soundscape Project
Patrick George Croskerry, C.M. (Halifax, Nova Scotia) - Emergency medicine
Jane Laurine Darville, C.M. (Toronto, Ontario) - health care administrator and community health specialist
Andre De Grasse, C.M., O.Ont. (Markham, Ontario) - Seven-time Olympic medallist
Mark Dobbin, C.M. (Portugal Cove–St. Philip’s, Newfoundland and Labrador) - Founder of Killick Capital Inc., is a dedicated investor, mentor and entrepreneurship advocate
Chris Dodd, C.M. (Edmonton, Alberta) - Deaf performing artist, playwright and accessibility advocate
Sheila Dawn Early, C.M. (Surrey, British Columbia) - Forensic nursing
Roger J. Lewis, C.M. (Dartmouth, Nova Scotia) - Mi'kmaq historian and archaeologist
William Joseph Logan, C.M. (Toronto, Ontario) - Pediatric neurology
Elizabeth MacLeod, C.M. (Toronto, Ontario) - Children’s author
Allison Joan McGeer, C.M. (Toronto, Ontario) - Epidemiological policy advisor
Irene Y. McNeill, C.M. (Aurora, Ontario) - Helped develop the sport of sailing in Canada
Rassi Nashalik, C.M. (Yellowknife, Northwest Territories) - Inaugural host of CBC’s Igalaaq, the first Inuktitut-language daily television newscast
Pamela Joan Newall, C.M. (Toronto, Ontario) - Forensic science
Brenda Okorogba, C.M. (Ottawa, Ontario) - Champions equitable access to education and workforce opportunities for diverse communities
Patricia O’Malley, C.M. (Stratford, Ontario) - Chartered professional accountant
Brendan John Paddick, C.M. (Freeport, Bahamas and Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland and Labrador) - Entrepreneur and executive, co-founder of the Dollar A Day Foundation
Susan Phillips, C.M. (Ottawa, Ontario) - Professor, founded Canada’s only graduate program in philanthropy
Alamin Proton Rahman, C.M., O.N.L.(St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador) - Genomics expert, professor
James Retallack, C.M. (Toronto, Ontario) - Scholar of modern German history
Whitney Michelle Rockley, C.M. (Toronto, Ontario) - Co-founder of McRock Capital, first woman to chair the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association
Leonard Schein, C.M. (Vancouver, British Columbia) - founded Festival Cinemas, the Vancouver International Film Festival, and Alliance Atlantis Cinemas
Walter John Schroeder, C.M. and Maria Schroeder, C.M. (Toronto, Ontario) - Philanthropists
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