Graham Crawford, one of the organizers of iElectHamilton, returns to the 905er, to discuss their recent resident survey, recent events, and the preparations for a 2022 municipal election that promises to be one with a clear choice for voters to make at the ballot box.Read More …
Today’s episode goes to the heart of the planning and development debate in the 905.
The new council elected in Burlington in 2018 has undoubtedly achieved significant change to Burlington’s downtown planning framework, and extracted major concessions from the province–at least, it has on paper.
Not so fast …
Today we speak to Burlington’s Councillor for downtown Lisa Kearns, about the catch in the deal with the province, and the wider need for reform of how municipalities control planning.Read More …
Burlington’s UGC change has finally been implemented. Has the city got what it was promised? Or has the barn door been slammed only after the province has let the horse run away?
Hamilton has a new councillor for Ward 5, but Ward 5 didn’t get to choose him. Why?
905 MP Erin O’Toole is facing a rebellion. What’s going on with the CPC?Read More …
We discuss the recent report by the Hamilton Integrity Commissioner on Councillor Terry Whitehead’s conduct. Spoiler alert…it’s not a favourable one.
And Stop Sprawl HamONT, who we spoke to a few week ago, have released a map showing just how much land there is wiithin Hamilton’s urban boundary.Read More …
The OLT is not looking kindly on Burlington’s downtown, regardless of changes that may be coming to the city’s preferred intensification areas. And HCDSB is in trouble again.Read More …
This past weekend, Ontario Liberal Party leader Steven Del Duca made a bold proclamation. Declaring that ranked ballots would be returning not just as an option for Ontario municipalities, but will be the way we elect our provincial legislature going forward.
Progressive Conservative Minister of Municipal Affairs Steve Clark is inserting himself into Hamilton’s Boundary Expansion debate. Why does a Minister need to write Op-Eds in favour of expansion when it is up to the municipality to make that call?Read More …
Burlington’s Ward 5 Councillor, Paul Sharman, has slammed Council’s decision to place a rainbow crosswalk at the junction of Fairview Street and Drury Lane, immediately outside Halton Catholic District School Board’s head office.
In a series of tweets between Thursday evening and Saturday, Sharman labelled the decision ‘petty opportunism’ and ‘completely disrespectful of a highly regarded institution. Read More …
Our guest this week is Graham Crawford, one of the leads of iElectHamilton.ca. iElectHamilton.ca has provoked a wave of positive support from many Hamiltonians, and a storm of angry reaction from some of the city’s political grandees.Read More …
Over the last few weeks, observers of Burlington city politics have noticed a growing rift in council. So much that when Joan Little of the Spectator commented on it in one of her columns, the Mayor decided a rebuttal was in order. What is going on in Burlington City Hall? Joel and Roland discuss what we know and what it means.Read More …
Our guest this week is Graham Crawford, one of the leads of iElectHamilton.ca. iElectHamilton.ca has provoked a wave of positive support from many Hamiltonians, and a storm of angry reaction from some of the city’s political grandees. It has already been described as a leftist takeover by university elites, and criticized for being unfairly hostile to delicate incumbent councillors who just want everybody to be positive.
Listen to Graham and decide for yourself.Read More …
