Raise the Hammer

If it finally gets us to take the real crises we're faced with seriously, this whole unpleasant nightmare will be worth it.

The public health experts have been pretty clear all along about what we should be doing. But really listening to them would require self-discipline and restraint - qualities of which we have not demonstrated a great abundance.

I want my heart to keep ticking, my legs to keep kicking, and my heels to keep clicking.

In a week of increasingly bleak news on the health care front, it is good to be able to celebrate a victory that was designed and delivered right here in Hamilton.

The Province used a Minister's Zoning Order, normally used for emergencies, to approve a polluting manufacturing facility over the objections of local residents.

As we reel from another incomprehensible tragedy, we must ask: how many more lives need to be sacrificed before we decide that enough is enough?

Our culture's obsession with the automobile and unchecked reverence to it is killing us, our loved ones and our children, and we don't care.

Will we lose Hamilton's Conservation Authority at a time when we need it the most to get through this climate crisis?

Peaceful protest that makes our leaders uncomfortable is where leadership happens and that's what being in public life is about.

Can 'green' natural gas work as a transition fuel for home heating?

The goodwill Premier Ford earned this past spring has evaporated as his government has reverted to prioritizing business interests over public health in the intervening months.

If council is more committed to cover-ups than justice and community safety, and the clerk and the IC are committed to supporting them, then it looks from the outside like the entire tree is rotten.

The Integrity Commissioner was supposed to have been established to hold Council accountable for their conduct, not for Council to use in order to punish its critics.

After using a quasi-judicial process to reprimand a volunteer citizen, will Council seek balanced justice to deal with whoever published the motion on the City website?

Although you may think you know how things work, what you don't know is how people experience the world that you control.

As long as each person who gets COVID-19 in Ontario infects on average more than one other person, that means we are on track for runaway exponential growth in cases again.

It is time for Council to decide that the bullying and abuse will no longer be tolerated.

Speed kills people and neighbourhoods. I want the neighbourhoods along Aberdeen Avenue to be the healthiest they can be for generations to come.

Grown-ups know that combatting climate change will cost money. One way or another, we all must pay. Either we pay for combatting climate change, or we will pay much more dearly with lives and money as unmitigated climate change worsens year after year.

Fear of change is a powerful reactionary force. It's time for Hamiltonians to learn from our own experience that making streets safer and more inclusive won't cause the sky to fall.