Hamilton City Council is under fire for the quarter-baked plan of the so-called “accountability and transparency sub-committee” that will gag any citizen [http://www.raisethehammer.org/article/1567/accountability_and_transparency_subcommittee_passes_gag_order_against_citizen_complainants] who files a complaint with the integrity commissioner. The reaction to the…
The citizens of Hamilton are poorly served by an accountability and transparency sub-committee that strives to decrease both accountability and transparency at City Hall. That’s obvious to everyone outside of City Hall. What may not be obvious is that City Hall is poorly served by this as well. At…
[http://blog.joeycoleman.ca/2012/04/metros-hamilton-edition-scheduled-for-launch-tomorrow-website-twitter-and-facebook-active/hamiltonmetro/] A month ago, Metro news announced plans to expand in four cities, including Hamilton, with digital-only editions. The launch date in their news release: April 2nd. On Friday, as part of a redesign of all Metro pages, the Hamilton Metro News page…
[http://blog.joeycoleman.ca/2012/04/metros-hamilton-edition-scheduled-for-launch-tomorrow-website-twitter-and-facebook-active/hamiltonmetro/] A month ago, Metro news announced plans to expand in four cities, including Hamilton, with digital-only editions. The launch date in their news release: April 2nd. On Friday, as part of a redesign of all Metro pages, the Hamilton Metro News page…
I prepared an April Fools joke for publication this year. In light of current events at City Hall (the attempt to gag citizens), I feel the humour may be too biting and would distract from the seriousness of events at City Hall this past week. Sadly, my humour piece could…
I’m in Ottawa today at the Creative Commons Canada relaunch and open data salon [http://www.opendatasalon.ca/]. I’ll be discussing open data, Open Hamilton, journalism and open data, and launching GRAF on [OpenLab.ca](http://www.openlab.ca) – a new project of many Canadian open data movement.…
My RSS package of journalism related blogs I follow [http://blog.joeycoleman.ca/2012/03/colemans-collection-of-journalism-blogs-to-read-and-follow-by-rss/] is missing a blog I never miss reading a post from: The Newsroom Insider by Jim Poling [http://insider.thespec.com/], managing editor of The Hamilton Spectator. What to know how the newsroom functions…
The City of Hamilton is powerless to stop construction of the city’s newest “legal non-conforming” parking lot despite issuing an order on March 16, 2012 to the owner to stop construction at 55 Queen Street North (at Market). Ward 1 councillor Brian McHattie expressed frustration the property – which shares…