Raise the Hammer

Normally, occasional teachers would eventually move into long-term occasional positions before being considered for a permanent contract. But that's not happening any more.

A dense city, served by a first-rate transit system, is an essential part of any attempt to tackle GHG emissions. The LRT was meant to move the city in that direction.

The Art Gallery of Hamilton Film Series runs on select Wednesdays and Thursdays until May.

The proposal to replace Hamilton's transit fleet with electric buses would consume the proposed $1 billion in provincial capital without adding a single route, bus stop or passenger and would cost more to operate.

Making it easier and safer for people to cycle to transit is a key part of reducing costly traffic congestion and addressing the climate emergency.

The third-party cost summary actually finds Hamilton's LRT fits within the Treasury Board-approved 30-year budget.

Being an effective City Councillor requires humility to recognize you don't know everything, openness to others' lived experience, imagination to see possible alternative futures, and compassion for people who aren't exactly like you.

Mayor Eisenberger needs to lead in a way in which he considers how his actions affect Hamiltonians, not just his own interests.

None of the detailed numbers in the Minister's six-page LRT cost breakdown add up to the totals.

There are three challenges that face transit expansion in Hamilton that are each defeating and together fatal: project timelines, area rating, and an abject failure of political leadership.

We can always choose to be on the side of those trying to prevent catastrophe instead of those stamping on the gas pedal to get us there faster.

The B-Line LRT is not an end in itself but the beginning of a larger public infrastructure project connecting all of Hamilton with a transit network.

The entire process in which the Ontario Government cancelled Hamilton's LRT project has been profoundly unfair to Hamilton.

We need your help to call on Premier Ford to fix Transport Minister Mulroney's mistake and get Hamilton's LRT back on track!

It's our responsibility to ensure that Hamilton remains a place that Hamiltonians can continue to live in, no matter their economic means.

Don't be distracted by the dubious promise of $1 billion in stocking stuffers: there is no money without the transformative public investment to generate the money that will pay for it.

Hamilton is being treated differently than every other Ontario city that is receiving transformational rapid transit investment, based on spurious numbers that have no clear provenance and conflate capital and gross operating budgets.

The Ward 3 Councillor is requesting an emergency Council meeting to reject the Provincial cancellation or the Hamilton LRT project and to request federal funding.

Hamilton's Ward 1 Councillor has requested a copy of the 'third party analysis' that formed the basis for the Ontario Government's sudden decision to cancel the Hamilton Light Rail Transit project.

With no advance notice, the Ontario Government abruptly canceled Hamilton's light rail transit (LRT) project yesterday, citing absurdly over-inflated budget overruns.