City's bungled $10,000,000 legal case - it gets worse

By Joey Coleman on

More questions about the City of Hamilton’s legal department’s mishandling of a $10,000,000 lawsuit against Deutsche Bank Securities Limited, DBRS Limited and CIBC Mellon Trust Company and others. Thus far, the media has only reported on what appeared to be one dismissed lawsuit. [![](http://blog.joeycoleman.…

City's bungled $10,000,000 legal case - it gets worse

By Joey Coleman on

More questions about the City of Hamilton’s legal department’s mishandling of a $10,000,000 lawsuit against Deutsche Bank Securities Limited, DBRS Limited and CIBC Mellon Trust Company and others. Thus far, the media has only reported on what appeared to be one dismissed lawsuit. [![](http://blog.joeycoleman.…

The HSR - they'll get you there .... late.

By Joey Coleman on

*If HSR mismanagement could ruin my transit trip tonight, it did. *The Hamilton Street Railway is a challenging public transit system to use: buses run late, detours happen, and the HSR information services will always claim 100% on time, on route performance. It’s typical of a poorly managed transit…

The HSR - they'll get you there .... late.

By Joey Coleman on

*If HSR mismanagement could ruin my transit trip tonight, it did. *The Hamilton Street Railway is a challenging public transit system to use: buses run late, detours happen, and the HSR information services will always claim 100% on time, on route performance. It’s typical of a poorly managed transit…

City of Hamilton Ward Boundaries - SHP and KML files

By Joey Coleman on

Hamilton’s municipal ward boundaries are now available in an open electronic format for use. Data license I’m releasing the boundaries under the Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL) [http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/] with credit to Statistics Canada for some of the boundary data. (I used StatsCan…

Tyler Sirens - a real-time open source crime map ... coming to Hamilton?

By Joey Coleman on

[http://blog.joeycoleman.ca/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Tyler_Sirens_1.jpg] Hamilton’s police force plans to encrypt their radio communications in the near future. As part of this initiative, they may provide near real-time activity data. If they do, Hamilton could have competing police activity maps or we may…