The OLT de facto quashed Hamilton’s downtown height limit, and updates on the Jamesville and City Centre files.
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Council to Discuss Increases to Non-Union Benefits
City of Hamilton managers say benefits must increase to be competitive in recruiting / retaining managers
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Newsletter Edition: Province finally tables municipal integrity legislation
Long expected, and overdue, the Ontario Conservative government released Bill 241 to amend the Municipal Act to deal with the more egregious violations of decency and law by municipal councillors.
Posted inJoey's Notepad
Joey’s Notepad: Windsor Transit, Ontario’s Federally Regulated Municipal Department
Windsor’s local transit workers receive better benefits than the rest of Ontario – because they drive into Detroit.
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Joey’s Notepad: Selective Transparency, Selective Hypocrisy
Debates about the Police budget and the financial statements of Hamilton Bike Share Inc reveal selectivity and hypocrisy on Council
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Newsletter Edition: A Selection of Letters on the Police Budget
The letters represent a range of opinions regarding the role of policing in society, taxes, public order, and priorities.
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INBOX: Government of Ontario Announces Hamilton Homelessness and Addiction Recovery Treatment (HART) Hub
The new centres replace (and end) supervised consumption sites – Hamilton Urban Core Community Health Centre will operate Hamilton location
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Choose Your Trustee: The 155 Candidate Interviews for Hamilton’s Ward 4 Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board Trustee By-Election
Ward 4 residents will elect a new public school board trustee to represent them on the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board in four days. I sat down with four of the eight candidates to ask ten questions about how they will govern, what skills they will bring, and why they think they deserve your vote. (The […]
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Joey’s Notepad: City Said Microshelters Would be in Canada on December 26, U.S. Customs Showed it Arriving in the States That Day
Did the shipment make it from a U.S. port of entry across the Canadian border on December 26?
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Noted: Pickering Posts 13-Minute Video of Threats Against Mayor and Council
Pickering City Council is moving all its meeting to online electronic formats in response to repeated and escalating threats from extremists