Your Ticats tickets just got harder to find, right?

Good morning from the Hammer — steel town, art town, your town. Don't look away.

So, listen, this whole thing about Ontario's new ticket resale laws? It’s a Barton Street story, if you ask me. This legislation was supposed to stop the bots and scalpers, making sure us regular folks could get into a Ticats game at Tim Hortons Field or a show at FirstOntario Centre without taking out a second mortgage, right? The idea was simple: you can't resell tickets for more than face value.

### What This Means for Hamilton

But what’s actually happening? Instead of levelling the playing field, a lot of sellers are just packing up and moving to less-regulated markets. This isn't just about some big corporate resellers; it's about the folks who used to grab an extra pair of seats and sell them to friends or a neighbour down the street. Now? They're looking at platforms that aren't even based in Canada, let alone Ontario.

* **Harder to find tickets:** Fewer tickets available on regulated Canadian sites.

* **Driving prices up elsewhere:** Those less-regulated markets? They don't care about face value.

* **Local events suffer:** Could make it tougher for smaller venues on James Street North or even events at Gage Park to get their tickets sold fairly.

It's a classic Hamilton problem, right? We try to fix something with good intentions, but the market just finds another way around it. It means if you want to catch the Forge FC at Tim Hortons Field or see your kid's favourite band, you might be digging even deeper into your wallet on some obscure site, or just plain out of luck. And that's not helping anyone in this city, believe me.

Sonja Kovačević-Mountain, MiTL Sports Desk.

I'm telling you, the crew on the morning show is digging into this, you gotta check it out live at mornings.live.