The City continues to respond to COVID outbreaks, and prepares to shut down more services to assign staff to vaccination clinics.
Posted inPlanning and Development
City of Hamilton Temporarily Without Heritage Planners as Two Leave for New Opportunities
Community heritage advocates worry vacancies will increase already decade-long backlog in processing heritage designations.
Posted inPolice Services Board
Hamilton Police Project $1.6-Million Surplus for 2020
Hamilton’s Police Service is projecting a $1.6-million fiscal surplus for 2020, which the HPS attributes to significantly lower than average retirements, decreased training due to COVID physical distancing requirements, and decreased use of fuel, utilities, and supplies.
Posted inHamilton City Hall
Debbie Dalle Vedove, Transit Trailblazer, Announces Retirement as HSR Director
With a mastery of operations, strategy, and politics, Dalle Vedove laid a strong foundation for better transit in Hamilton and re-railed the HSR while facing the glass cliff of the 2017 Transit Crisis.
Posted inNews
Hamilton Library Updating Booking and Event Policies On Assumption Charter of Rights Will Apply
HPL prepares itself for the eventually that a controversial speaker will seek to rent space.
Posted inHamilton City Hall, Planning and Development
A Day in The Politics of Legalizing Illegal Multiplex Rentals in Hamilton
“It is the resident homeowners who actually vote here in the city” stated one person opposed. Another opposition letter stated “we say no to becoming another Hamilton Ghetto”.
Posted inCoronavirus, Hamilton City Hall
Hamilton Public Health Seeking Library Staff to Support Vaccination Clinics and Campaign
Chief Librarian says HPL may reduce hours at branches to free up staff to support vaccination and help Hamilton reach vaccination numbers to being a wider reopening.
Posted inBriefs
Ontario Land Tribunals to Merge into One Body
The short is significance of the change is that any member of the existing tribunals will be able to hear matters which had previously been the purview of the other tribunals.
Posted inBriefs
Video Shows Hamilton Police Officer Lunge at Resident During Testy Interaction
Video of threatening behaviour by a Hamilton Police Office comes as public increasingly questions the role of police in society.
Posted inColeman's Notes
Ruining the Best Laid Plans, A Hamilton Tradition, LRT Edition
Since 1982, our best laid civic projects have been subject to endless debates at City Council, everyone becomes frustrated, and then a “saviour” proposal is draw on the back of a napkin.