Council handed the Ontario Municipal Board multiple reasons to redraw the city’s ward boundaries by undermining its own witnesses and relying on dishonest arguments about protecting the agricultural community.
Asian and European experience strongly supports the development of an Ontario regional express rail system that includes Hamilton’s LRT.
When there’s too little money to fix the city’s roads, there’s no shortage of councillors who think their wards should get a bigger slice of the budget.
The warnings are more severe, the solutions still not apparent, but there is at least a little more explanation of how the city got into this financial mess and why it keeps getting worse.
The city’s newest expansion onto rural lands will accommodate three times the population of Dundas and consume more area than the aerotropolis.
This is a regular CATCH summary of votes at committee and council meetings. This report covers the month of October 2017.
Despite unanimously approving HSR emergency funding to address public outrage over no-show buses, councillors showed less harmony last week about transit’s capital budget.
This is a regular CATCH summary of votes at committee and council meetings. This report covers the month of September 2017.
The city says it is back on track in reducing the pollutants that cause climate change but so far most of the cuts have come from local industry.
New provincial rules ban city council candidates from accepting corporate and union donations, change the maximum allowable gifts, and regulate third-party interventions in next fall’s municipal elections.
Enbridge is facing another protest over its controversial expansion of 35 kilometres of oil pipeline across rural Hamilton, but this one has a children’s logic.
Next year’s HSR budget requires a string of crucial decisions. It is heading to councillors early in November, months before public input is invited or most other features of the 2018 city spending are scheduled to be finalized.
This is a regular CATCH summary of votes at committee and council meetings. This report covers the month of August 2017.
Last week’s critical audit of federal government unpreparedness for climate change underlines that Hamilton is as far behind as the Trudeau government in planning for impacts on residents and community infrastructure.
City staff want $52 million in next year’s budget to begin making the aerotropolis lands more attractive for hoped-for industrial development.
Local labour leaders have called a “Shut Down Hate” rally to counter Islamophobia and anti-immigrant activities which have surfaced repeatedly in Hamilton since the election of Donald Trump.
This is a regular CATCH summary of votes at committee and council meetings. This report covers the month of July 2017.
A whack of public money may preserve unequal voting arrangements in Hamilton and help some city councillors keep their seats in next year’s election.
Despite provincial rules, a new analysis finds greenfield development accounted for more than two-thirds of new Hamilton residential units last year.
Houston, we have a problem, and so do cities and towns across the continent including Hamilton.