buyer beware!! I signed up for a 6 month subscription deal they were offering.. Was never able to sign in. called office and was disconnected! before the 6 months was up my health was not good so I was not able to follow up and spend hours trying to connect with them so I made a note to cancel when my 6 months was up. I emailed the spec prior to my subscription renewal to let them know I could not login and to cancel my account. they continued to bill me and have refused to reimburse my credit card! they have proof I have not used the service since the 1st day my subscription started yet they will not refund me! I understand I am out the money I paid for the 6 month deal but not for any charges after that as I sent them instructions to cancel my subscription! I look at this as a money making fraud business!! shame on you spectator! someone should do a story on your business practices! read more

As a Subscriber for 34+ years the Spectator should NOT be demanding an increase but rather a Decrease in Subscription costs. A much smaller paper with fewer sections. Front page 'Human Interest' stories instead of real News like the many wars and weather events happening. The Spec paper will likely be gone in 2025. read more

The worst if it's kind.. it there was "less than 1 star like - 5 " it would be more adequate. Calling yourself news distribution of any kind gives insult to all media amd news. read more

Hands down the worst daily newspaper of any major city in Canada and I would never waste my money on a subscription. Often featuring totally unrelated to Hamilton articles that barely qualify as headline news (Think: Man Punched in Belleville or Man Bitten By Dog in Sudbury) it is easy to see that much of what is offered in the Spec is just weak, generic filler that is being used to fill pages to give the illusion that its a real daily newspaper. Owned by Metroland Media which is not even a legitimate news organization but rather an advertising company (according to their website). They are also responsible for choking our blue boxes, landfills and public space with the litter of millions of pounds weekly of unwanted bundles of flyers masquerading as "free community news papers" that are rudely tossed onto lawns and doorsteps across the province without permission. If you were to go around town and toss bundles of paper onto peoples properties without permission you would be fined and possibly arrested for illegal dumping and trespassing yet Metroland thinks its Ok to do this on a daily basis. Go look in your blue box. I bet you have a pile of unwanted Metroland produced and distributed junk filling it up right now. And just try and cancel delivery of one of the free community flyer and junk bundles they toss out. You will have an easier time getting a seat at the Queens dinner table I can assure you. I know as I tried for over three months to stop delivery of a "free" Metroland publication at a property I owned in another city and it finally took me going to one of their offices and pouring a green garbage bag full of all of the junk they delivered to the home after I requested they stop right on the receptionists counter. That got their attention. So did the promise of a lawyers letter if they delivered even one more scrap of paper to my door. I weighed the unwanted deliveries. About 4.5 pounds of unwanted junk a week tossed onto my doorstep. Now consider that Metroland distributes over 4 million free newspapers on a daily run and you will quickly see that Metroland is one of the worst carbon offenders in the entire province. I urge everyone to email your local city council, MPP and MP and TELL them to put a stop to the shameful practice of Metroland tossing out millions of pounds of unwanted junk and advertising masquerading as newspapers onto peoples doorsteps. read more

I always try to read the news but everything I wanna readers wants me to pay money for the worst news.

Love my paper! Great local news as well as International! Would never give it up,enjoy it every morning with my breakfast. Great Stories