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With Hamilton needing to modify existing emergency homeless shelters and potentially needing to create new temporary shelters, funding could be timely.
The picture is becoming more clear, LRT’s path to nine votes in favour needs either Ward 13’s Arlene Vanderbeek or Ward 7’s Esther Pauls, likely both.
The 126-page independent investigation into the Hamilton Police response to the attack upon the 2019 Hamilton Pride festivities at Gage Park is a shocking reveal into a Police Command that was inept in preparing for Pride, inept at managing community relations, that set its front-line up for failure, and were blinded after the fact in a rabbit hole they kept digging deeper.
The report makes 38 recommendations that need to be implemented.
Joey Coleman argues Hamilton deserves better from its Police Command, and needs a new Police Chief to implement the recommendations.
City Council needs to prepare for “mom and pop” and small investor defaults, and stop the ground crumbling small commercial off a cliff they can never climb.
Council does a lot of fighting over a Task Force which has already served its purpose.
Good laws are clear, concise, and limited to serving the purpose of their enactment.
Here is how Hamilton’s proposed physical distancing by-law fails this test.
I find comfort knowing that Chris’ contributions will continue in the legacy of all those he’s inspired to community engagement, all those he mentored, the agencies whose board of directors he volunteered upon, and the legacy of Erich’s Cupboard which he co-founded.
LGBTQ youth are being told they need to “coordinate and co-opt” to get their demands heard. It’s what they did, and City Hall ignored them. More context on the LGBTQ Committee’s flag motion.
All of us media covering City Hall generally quote the City’s Chief Planner or General Manager of Economic Planning and Development, yet, as one delegate made me discover today, the public should know who the Manager of Development Planning is, as they have important delegated authorities.
This is not a rider-centric change, quite the opposite. Instead of providing needed bus service to Redeemer University College, Mayor Fred Eisenberger has once again shortchanged the HSR and its riders.