Hamilton – The 905er

905 Round-Up – Is Downtown Hamilton Too Dangerous to Work?

Roland Tanner — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 01:41:03 +0000

A day late, but hopefully not a dollar short. Joel is away, and for technical reasons the upload is a

The 905 Round-Up: Brian Lilley Ruins Everything

Roland Tanner — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Brian Lilley waded into the Hamilton Centre By-election with an accusation of antisemitism against the NDP. The Liberals jumped on his bandwagon, and the NDP fought back. Who does it help?

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Joey Coleman Chats on Hamilton City Hall Culture

Roland Tanner — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 12:00:00 +0000

Joey Coleman of thepublicrecord.ca joins us to share his take on the first 100 days of Hamilton's new council.

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The 905 Round-Up: The Nuclear Option

Roland Tanner — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 12:00:00 +0000

Another weekly brace of stories affecting the 905. When is disrupting a democratic meeting appropriate? Uncle Doug is building nuclear power plants. Uncle Justin is thowing money at the provinces to spend on healthcare to make up for the fact the premiers won’t throw enough money at it themselves.

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Postcards from the Tram – What Edinburgh Can Teach the 905 About LRT

Roland Tanner — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 12:05:00 +0000

Roland spent most of January in Scotland, and took the time to record his impressions of Edinburgh's Tram network, which opened it's first phase in 2014. The tram's construction was anything but smooth (sound familiar?), but now it's here, what's it like?

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Dawn Danko Dishes on the HWDSB’s New Masking Policy

Joel Macleod — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 18:00:00 +0000

This month, the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board reinstituted a masking policy. A decision which, to no surprise, drew the attention of both

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905 Round-Up: Is Doug Ford Good for Democracy?

Roland Tanner — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 17:41:17 +0000

As Doug Ford pursues his vision of paving over the greenbelt to help out his developer friends, resistance is popping up in unexpected places. Most recently the Association of Municipalities of Ontario has made public their concerns regarding Bill 23. Namely that they project a cost of approximately $1 Billion a year to municipalities due to loss of development fees. As well as the untold projected costs of environmental damages due to the consequences of potentially building on flood plains or watersheds in the Greenbelt. What is Doug Ford's response? It turns out that AMO has been excluded from committee meetings.

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The 905 Round-Up: Health Care Collapse and Land Grabs for the Rich

Roland Tanner — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 19:24:30 +0000

The gloves are off for the PC Government as they attack anything and everything that stands in the way of their most generous donors. Meanwhile healthcare approaches collapse, and the minimum wage falls further and further behind the actual minimum cost of living.

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Sex Workers Rights in The 905

Roland Tanner — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 19:15:56 +0000

Last month sex worker advocates took action and filed a lawsuit in Ontario Courts to challenge the constitutionality of the Protection of Communities and Exploited persons Act. Should they succeed in their challenge laws surrounding sex work could be struck down once again in Canada, forcing Canada to once again update it’s laws. One of the groups involved with the court case is a Hamilton advocacy group, Sex Workers Action Program Hamilton. We reached out to their Executive Director Jelena Vermillion to chat with her about the court case and what they hope to accomplish. As well as the issue of sex work and sex workers rights in general in Canada.

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905 Round-Up: Bad Trustees, MEXIT and Who’s Ahead in Hamilton?

Roland Tanner — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 11:17:00 +0000

Halton Catholic Trustees behaving badly, ’MEH-XIT’ for Mississauga, and Hamilton has a mayoral race where either likely winner is ... pretty good actually? Shurely shome mishtake?

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