The Pentagon's view of ISIS and the missing low cost airlines: Top Stories
Here are some of the top stories from Hamilton and beyond
How worried should we really be about ISIS? And, what happened to those low cost airlines that pledged to come to Hamilton this summer? These are a few of the top stories worth your time this morning.
Local
Hamilton flyers are familiar with the feeling: An airline takes a look at the Hamilton airport, likes what it sees, and promises to start flying there. And soon!
But as summer ends, none of the lower-cost airlines who've flirted with John C. Munro International Airport on Mount Hope have gotten up and running — certainly not up and flying.
Raging car fire spreads to central Hamilton homes
Emergency crews pulled an elderly woman from a home overnight while firefighters spent hours working to douse a car fire that was spreading into two homes in central Hamilton.
Investigators are still trying to figure out just what caused the fire, but police believe it was intentionally set.
Elsewhere
ANALYSIS: Pentagon's take on ISIS fight nothing like Canada's campaign rhetoric
The leaders of the Liberal and New Democratic parties, Stephen Harper tells his election rallies, are such a couple of timorous wet smacks that they can't possibly be trusted to shield Canadians from the evil that constantly bears down upon us all.
"Justin Trudeau and Thomas Mulcair are so wrapped up in some form of twisted form of political correctness that they won't even call jihadist terrorism what it is," Harper told cheering supporters in Sault Ste. Marie this month.
How one family got their photos back a year after dropping their camera in a pond
A year's worth of photos a Nova Scotia family believed they'd never see again will soon be returned thanks to the power of social media and the family behind a popular Cavendish, P.E.I., amusement park.
The pit that was once the paddleboat pond at the Shining Waters Family Fun Park has now been dried out, making room for a new roller-coaster. Matthew Jelley, the park's president, says emptying the pond has been an adventure.