Raise the Hammer

Designed, started, managed, responded to, compiled and submitted by a very small fringe group of very vocal, very passionate individuals.

Thanks for recognizing our passion. ;) You're wrong about the people who signed up for Our City, Our Future, though. Here's my favourite statement on the site:

I have traveled around this country for east to west, my father sold our home in Cape Breton for 1500$ I was 10yrs old. We moved to Ontario, I can still smell the cab that picked us up and the train that took us Hamilton, you can only speculate as to how I felt. For a kid who used pick up coal of the train tracks a father who worked the coal mines and mother gave everything she had, even till the day she died, (here in Hamilton) this was to a gambler Vagas, to truck driver the sweat sound of Patsy Cline but to us it was HOME. I grow up on Barton and Sherman when it was the roughest street in Canada, my cousins were bikers my and friends were Italians. AS a young man on the weekends there were endless possibilities as to where we could go, the Jockey Club on Barton, or to the east end (which was not a really good option for us) or go down town. Ah, down town, the Running Pump, the Grange, Duffy's this was were it all happened, hell I saw Rush at Duffy's. I have hitched hiked across this country 3 times twice in the the winter and and have and have broke bread with many great Canadians along the way, but let me tell something you perhaps can never understand, as that boy from Cape Berton there is no more welcome sign as you travel down the highway then the one that says HAMILTON. I want to walk down town with my wife and boys just like I did when I was young. I want them to experience Hamilton as I did, in the down town core, how do we do that, bring the stadium the West Harbor. Bob Young has down a lot for the Ti-Cats which in turn I know for our city, we love him for it, but with that said, I am not to particular on who owns the club as long as long as it remains in our hands, " my way or the highway" doesn't work for me BOB. I live in the north end and I can tell you this will be nothing but a pain in the butt for all residents, but we can make it work. Lets get it done!!

Can you hear the true voice of the Hammer in that statement? Because I sure can.

When will you and the rest of the beatniks here understand that 9/10ths of the population doesn't want to support your pipedream.

This is a straightforward troll and I don't normally respond to trolls, but I always laugh when I hear people describe the people on RTH as hippies, beatniks, etc. I certainly have nothing against hippies but I don't actually know any (at this stage in my life, anyway), and the people I know personally who write for RTH are entrepreneurs, web developers, designers, architects, doctors, politicians, and many other people from all sorts of different occupations who share one thing in common: passion for Hamilton and a progressive, urbanist vision for this city.

It may also come as a shock to some to find that many in our audience, and quite a few among our contributors, have largely conservative viewpoints. There is nothing about urbanism that needs to be contrary to conservatism, and in fact, there are many good reasons why conservatives ought to support urbanism (for example, because concentrated urban centers, rather than sprawl, help conserve our rural areas and thus protect the rural way of life).