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The founding of Hamilton Health Sciences 25 years ago features prominently in this year’s Balsille Prize for Public Policy winner Innovation in Real Places: Strategies for Prosperity in an Unforgiving World authored by University of Toronto professor Dan Breznitz.
There’s a deliberate campaign to fix public transit to and within Hamilton – all-day GO service is the latest announcement of this campaign.
I, like many Hamiltonians, get my federal political information in soundbites. Listening to Jagmeet Singh at length on Friday, I’m impressed – make no mistake, the NDP can win in Hamilton East-Stoney Creek
“No, I don’t want to be Mayor of Hamilton”, Catharine McKenna stated directly to CHCH News in an interview recorded Monday.
Giorno, in a well written report, finds that the Councillor did use his office to try to influence enforcement and that this is a violation of the Municipal Act, the Police Services Act, and the Code of Conduct for the City of Oshawa. The Councillor did so in good faith.
In which my interest in post-secondary students and local government results in my reading an old OMB ruling.
This Wednesday, the executive directors of municipal and government financial officers associations in both Ontario and BC will discuss COVID’s impacts upon the health of Canada’s municipalities, to be followed by a panel of international experts in two weeks discussing the impact upon cities around the world.
Swayze sat down in early 2019 with Adam Donaldson for his Guelph Politico podcast, it is an insightful interview on the role of the Integrity Commissioner and the boundaries of the position.
This is a rare instance of Council entering into quasi-judicial decision making – they are sitting in judgment of an individual, must determine guilt, and render a decision which complies with both the Municipal Act, common law, and natural justice.
The first COVID elections are worth watching.
Creating a safe intersection for pedestrians and traffic at the top of the Jolley Cut is uniquely difficult for many reasons. The consultants who worked on this problem share the designs which do not work – and we get the chance to learn in the process.
