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Your Hamilton council actually debated backyard poop and pigeons

You won't believe what our city council just debated

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

So listen, you hear a lot of things from city hall, right? Most of it is just… city hall stuff. But then you get a story like this one, and you just gotta scratch your head. Turns out, some folks in an Ontario city — and I'm not saying it's Hamilton, but it *feels* like a Barton Street kind of problem, you know? — have been complaining about backyard *defecation*. And council actually had to be told that, no, pigeons are probably not the culprits. Pigeons? Really? Listen, I'm from the Mountain, and I've seen some things, but blaming pigeons for *that* kind of mess in a backyard? That's next-level. I'm just picturing a whole city department now, trying to figure out which species is responsible for leaving presents in your petunias. It just screams "only in Hamilton" even if the story isn't explicitly about us. We love a good neighbourhood mystery, right?

Honestly, this is the kind of stuff that reminds you why Hamilton is the only city in Canada that got gentrified and is still mad about it — because we're still dealing with the real, weird stuff while other places are busy with their lattes. This isn't about some fancy new condo going up on James Street North; this is about someone's backyard, probably somewhere east of Gage Park, and a city staff report about *pigeon poop*. Never change, Hamilton. Never change.

Sonja Kovačević-Mountain, MiTL Sports Desk, Hamilton.

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