The 24-year-old woman, who received 10 months of house arrest in April 2010 after pleading guilty to fraud over and under $5,000 by pocketing funds in a bogus cancer charity scheme, has been charged a second time for breaching her conditional sentence.

Defence counsel Kirstie Bloomfield said Kirilow was arrested Monday after apparently leaving the dwelling where she is confined to house arrest.

Kirilow appeared briefly Wednesday before justice of the peace Barbara Waugh, where she was remanded in custody ahead of her next court appearance Friday. The bespectacled woman with shoulder length brown hair wore a purple sweatshirt and grey slacks. She whispered briefly with Bloomfield but otherwise did not address the court.

Loujack Nougues Cafe, 25, of no fixed address was arrested yesterday in the Main and Sherman area and will appear in court today.

Staff Sergeant Steve Hrab would not comment on how Café allegedly chose his victims or whether he knew his victim.

Laura Young was found stabbed to death and dumped at the rear of 116 Cathcart St on Feb 6, 2011. George Washington Burnett, was found with a knife in his neck in his bed at 55 Stirton Avenue on Sept 6, 2011. And three people were attacked on the streets of downtown Hamilton between November 7 and November 12, in what were labeled “random attacks” at the time.

But Evelyn Myrie, executive director of Hamilton’s Centre for Civic Inclusion, says the signs at Hillbilly Heaven on Upper James Street are “very offensive and against the principles of diversity and inclusion.”

The restaurant has a big sign by the cash register that says halal, rice, kabob, shawarma, fries, wings, ¼ chicken, Mexican and burgers are “things we don’t have and never will.”

On the door it says “to better serve you, our staff speaks ENGLISH” and “What would make you think this was a Korean BBQ? Do you see any f’n ducks in the window?”

Myrie says the owner should take down the signs and apologize.

“Why would he go and attack the people who eat those kinds of foods? He’s ignoring a great deal of the population. It’s very stereotypical … It’s unacceptable and feeds into a stereotype … He has the right to sell his goods but doesn’t have the right to trash other foods that are culturally driven.”

But the owner of the restaurant, Cameron Bailey, says he means no offence. He says his business at Upper James and Fennell Avenue “is in a bit of an Arab neighbourhood. I got tired of people coming in here and asking me if I have halal. I put a sign up saying we don’t have halal, so stop coming in here and asking me.”

As for the sign about Korean barbecue, that was in response to a Korean customer who got angry with Bailey, he said, because his restaurant didn’t serve Korean duck.

Brampton the Bad has been identified as Canada’s most vulgar city for tweeting more four-letter profanities than anyone else. Those “f” and “s” words appeared in 1.41 per cent of all tweets over a one-month period, according to a survey.

TBK Creative, a social media agency, looked at more than 1 million tweets across Canada’s largest cities to rank them based on the most frequent use of bad words.

Hamilton and London placed second and third with 0.9 and 0.7 per cent respectively. Toronto the Good ranked fourth with 0.62 per cent, followed by Laval and Montreal. Ottawa had the cleanest tweets to place 10th.

To be fair, not every tweet was tapped by someone in Brampton; the text just included the bad word in the same cyberbreath as the city name.

Wrote Torontosoul: “If I had to live in Brampton, I’d swear a lot too.”

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It’s expected the majority of 1,900 jobs to build Windstream Energy’s 300-megawatt Wolfe Island Shoals project near Kingston will land in the city as four local firms will fabricate the steel, assemble the components and transport the giant towers across Lake Ontario.

Walters Group will fabricate the structural steel, Hamilton Port Authority will provide the facilities to assemble the parts, McKeil Marine will use its tugs and barges to transport and erect the components and Bermingham Foundation Solutions will secure the massive wind towers to the lake bed.

An official announcement is coming Wednesday morning. No dollar figure for the value of the local contracts is being released.

“Windstream is looking forward to bringing this level of investment, revitalization and job growth to the Hamilton area,” said Ian Baines, the Burlington-based company’s president, in a news release obtained exclusively by The Spectator.

“We are responding directly to Finance Minister Dwight Duncan’s challenge this week to invest and create jobs in Ontario. We are here. We are stepping up to the table. We are ready to invest, the jobs are immediate and real.”

All the companies are part of a manufacturing consortium called the Lake Ontario Offshore Network, formed to lobby governments about the benefits and economic value of wind energy.

But the project doesn’t have a timeline since the Ontario government imposed a moratorium on new projects almost a year ago, saying more scientific study of the impacts of wind energy is needed.

The Hearts for Homes event had been scheduled to run from 8 p.m. to 7 a.m. at the Salvation Army Meadowlands Church, 187 Stone Church Rd. on the south Mountain.

But with Environment Canada calling for flurries through the day and night and a low Friday night of -9 C, the Salvation Army has rescheduled.

At this morning’s planning committee meeting, councilors – who had previously voted to look into the benefits and downfalls of allowing hens within Hamilton’s urban areas – decided against any further study.

Councillor Lloyd Ferguson, who spearheaded the move, said city staff shouldn’t devote their time investigating something councillors would ultimately veto.

“I’m sensing that the majority of the committee at the end of the day (won’t) support this. So why are we running around like chickens with its head cut off?,” he said. “At the end of the day we’re just going to shut it down anyway. There are health risks, there are rodent risks, there are odour issues.”

However, the city’s public heath staff also told councillors that the department had changed its mind about the health risks of urban chickens. Previously, staff had raised red flags about the risks of diseases like salmonella and H1N1. Now, they say chickens pose no more health risks than dogs or cats.

Councillor Jason Farr, who proposed the probe into urban chickens, argued it’s worth investigating the issue due to the growing amount of support for chickens in urban areas.

“It’s not the end of he world to have a couple of birds in the backyard and we shouldn’t present it as such,” he said.