Raise the Hammer

The City is currently undertaking the development of an strategy to measure, protect and expand the city's urban forest.

There are a number of practical ways you can help advocate to save the Wesley Day Centre and establish a permanent safe injection site over the coming week, starting today.

We call on the City of Hamilton to implement a zero-tolerance policy towards the extremist actions of hate groups.

A creative endeavour is to be enjoyed, certainly, but having a worthy purpose makes it sweeter.

For people who have gone through their lives falling through the cracks and feeling they are being swept aside, the closure of the Wesley Day Centre sends yet another message that their lives don't matter.

No one should confuse Hamilton as a safe place to be trans or queer or a person of colour.

The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls report simply summed up the obvious by using the most truthful word.

While laneway housing is certainly not a solution for everyone, it will provide great benefit for both homeowners and people renting in our city.

Once a particular narrative takes hold in the public mind, no matter how divorced it is from reality, it can be extremely hard to dislodge.

When you plot Ontario's debt on an inflation-adjusted, per-capita basis, the picture is not nearly as stark as you might expect.

The fight for bodily autonomy must be all-inclusive. If your fight for human rights is not universal, it is self serving and it allows unjust harm onto vulnerable and marginalized peoples.

There are different ways to create a narcissist and our society is establishing perfect conditions for their proliferation.

Weeds are simply flowering plants growing where they're not wanted. Many are not only beautiful to look at, but also delicious to eat.

Pointing out the hypocrisy of right-wing populists and their supporters misses the movement's central premise.

A person's ability to be prepared for anything, even something as ubiquitous as a woman's cycle, is predicated entirely on having a stable place to live and a decent income.

We need a massive, comprehensive, all-hands-on-deck mobilization of our entire country to transition rapidly and decisively to a decarbonized economy if we have any hope of saving the planet for our children and grandchildren.

This film should be shown in high school civics, law and history classes across the country to eradicate the belief that First Nations peoples are disposable.

A Green New Deal offers a blueprint for a rapid transition to a sustainable economy that brings everyone along, delivering more prosperity to Canadians and guaranteeing that no workers will be left behind in the transition.

On Saturday, May 4, I led a Jane's Walk along the proposed route of a new neighbourhood greenway that may be coming to Hamilton next year.

On May 4 and 5, Kevin Love will be leading Jane's Rides that explore how to use Hamilton's network of alleys to travel around the city.