On Sunday we conducted a special canvass in the Eastmount Park Neighbourhood to talk specifically about the future of Eastmount Park School. We included a letter along with a postcard that specifically talked about the future of the school and the surrounding lands. The City has put in an offer to purchase the school and lands from [...]
Long Term Infrastructure Planning When it comes to infrastructure building we should take the modified advice of Alec Baldwin from film Glengarry Glen Ross: "Always Be Planning" Cities across Canada have been complaining for years about a lack of infrastructure cash. Hamilton has (according to City finance staff) a yearly infrastructure deficit of $195 million [...]
Red Light Cameras When red light cameras were introduced in Hamilton they were controversial. Hearkening back to the horrors of photo radar many greeted these new machines with skepticism. Most felt they were simply being installed as a source of revenue generation. Others feared they could even make the streets less safe with an increase in rear [...]
The youth unemployment rate (ages 15 - 24) has risen to 13.5%, nearly double the national average. That number however does not tell the entire story. It does not tell of the young people who left the job seekers pool to go back to school. It also doesn't track those young people working as [...]
Infrastructure spending includes spending on roads, bridges, wastewater treatment and stormwater management as well as public transit. We use our public infrastructure every day, and every day that we ignore these growing needs the cost increases. At the Liberal biennial convention in Montreal, delegates voted in favour of resolution 36. The resolution was a motion [...]
