Raise the Hammer

Overall, it was a huge success to have the Festival back in Gage Park, but a few issues represent opportunities for improvement next year.

When you take what is currently a wholly owned and delivered not-for-profit public service and turn it into a profit-driven service delivered by private corporations, there's a name for that.

A newcomer to Hamilton makes an important observation about people with disabilities.

With this approval as part of the Environmental Assessment process, the project can move forward to a request for proposals to build and operate the line.

A weekend in Ottawa as an urban mobility tourist provided lots of examples of a city doing public transportation right.

Looking back now, I wonder the type of person I might be if I was raised on the fast food and meals to go that a single working mother would be forced to feed me.

This is the original text of A Welfare Diary Revisited, published on Saturday, December 21, 1991 in The Hamilton Spectator.

This is the original text of A Welfare Diary, published on Saturday, June 15, 1991 in The Hamilton Spectator.

Karl Andrus reflects on the context in which his mother wrote A Welfare Diary and A Welfare Diary Revisited in 1991.

This city is constantly evolving and with so many more opportunities for growth, the potential for local residents to find meaningful employment will continue to grow with it.

Recently, an LRT opponent claimed that the overhead wires have been linked to cancer. That is simply not true.

ERI funding adds 12 new bike hub stations across the the under-served east end of the bike share serviced area, plus 75 new bikes added to the existing 750 bike fleet.

Flags and high-visibility clothing are useful for temporary conditions and for traffic control personnel, but not for everyday conditions and everyday people.

Could we see authorities and responsibilities stripped away from municipal governments due to ineffectiveness? That's certainly possible, although it's difficult to make any predictions. But heck, let's speculate.

Policy lags behind promises on environmental migration as climate change raises pressure for a global fix.

Sometimes turning an argument upside-down helps to demonstrate how silly it is.

It's the uneasy space between cultivation and chaos that enables the most transcendental consideration of human culture in the cosmos.

Add your voice to the parliamentary committee reviewing the Domestic and Sexual Violence Workplace Leave, Accommodation and Training Act to help improve it and save a woman's life.

The pedestrian 'beg buttons' have been removed from the intersection of James Street South and Young Street.

Council needs to demonstrate meaningfully that it values transit before the HSR can be entrusted to manage rapid transit.