Raise the Hammer

Listen to the 35-minute talk by Margaret Lindsay Holton.

The minor variance process has become a political tool that developers can use to go around the community, and even the City's bylaws, in order to work out their own arrangements behind the scenes.

McMaster Musical Theatre's production of "Company" features a talented cast with some very strong ensemble and solo singing.

The people at McMaster Children's Hospital are saving one child at a time and we don't know what the impacts will be. Lilly might save the world.

Instead of helping to stem the tide of hatred, Canada's Conservative leadership at all levels is actually enabling and pandering to it.

This month, Hamilton could have taken the first step toward making Election Reform a reality in Hamilton. It didn't. Here's why.

The motion would direct staff to report back on addressing area rating for transit in a way that will "align with the overall city Transit strategy."

We need a City Manager who has empathy, who has first-hand experience of the issues residents face in Hamilton. We need a City Manager who supports marginalized folks and experiences.

Council's City Manager Recruitment Committee has violated the Municipal Act and the Procedural By-Law by refusing to allow its public meeting to be attended by the public.

Council members held a "public" meeting early Saturday morning at a resort 66 km away from Hamilton and refused to let the public or reporters attend.

The City of Hamilton Won't Let us Speak at the City Manager Recruitment Meeting. We're Going Anyway.

A consultant report finding that the pavement is too slippery was buried for five years before staff revealed it yesterday.

The current course that Council is headed on feels just as patriarchal as it does paternalistic.

Thanks to incentives protecting the status quo, market "innovation", far from helping us with climate change, has made it worse.

Laneway housing in Hamilton will create more housing options for people that are drawn to our city's older neighbourhoods. It allows new housing to incrementally utilize existing urban infrastructure.

High-density cities built without resident input and careful engagement, and which overwhelm already successful urban environments with buildings residents hate, will repeat the mistakes of urban planners from the urban renewal era.

Central to this lively book is the notion that we are literally surrounded by fruit in our cities, and yet nobody has any idea what to do with it.

With precarious employment the norm these days, social safety nets like BI provide the financial stability parents need to plan for the future and to raise their children out of poverty.

Since this $4.4 million project is a 'once-in-a-generation' complete rebuild, right now is the time to make sure that Locke Street becomes a destination that people can easily and safely get to.

There is a very serious safety issue with the bicycle lane being obstructed by the door zone of adjacent parked cars.