Is a nine storey residential development appropriate for the southeast corner of West 5th Street and Stone Church Road West?
Posted inBriefs
Queen’s Park Paying for DARTS Eligibility Review
The review follows an internal audit report which found serious administrative deficiencies resulting in Hamilton approving more people for para-transit services than comparable municipalities.
Posted inCity Hall
New Provincial COVID Funds for HSR Will Keep Transit Running Well into 2022
Queen’s Park announces $16,822,206 in new funds for HSR, bringing HSR’s 2021 COVID funding to $22,108,640.
TPR does the math to show this will keep HSR running well into late 2022.
Posted inCity Hall
Summary of Hamilton City COVID Press Conference for March 1, 2021
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 inCity 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 inCity 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 inCity Hall, Coronavirus
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.