Raise the Hammer

Wellington County, Ontario will be particularly hard-hit by this pending sale, since Nestle currently owns three wells in the area that supply its Aberfoyle bottling plant.

What if we could create a safe path for pedestrians and cyclists from lower Hamilton to Concession Street and beautiful Sam Lawrence Park, which would cost very little to build?

Dangerous right-wing extremism has taken over the mainstream of the Republican Party - and the same dynamics are at work in Canada as well.

Do Hamilton City Councillors really want our taxpayers to subsidize low-density future growth which will increase pollution, car commute times, impact our emissions and pave over farmland?

The actual facts about Ford's handling of the pandemic do not fit into the prevailing narrative of a scrappy fighter for the 'little guy'.

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.