One of my Christmas Eve “traditions” is on hold for the next two years – ordering snack food through the window at the Shell gas station in Ancaster’s Meadowlands. I have a friend who works for the Hamilton Street Railway and the past couple of years, I’ve joined him…
Roger Gillespie [https://twitter.com/#!/rogergillespie] is the new executive producer of CBC Hamilton. The appointment was announced in an internal email to CBC staff today. “We are pleased to announce that Roger Gillespie is the new executive producer of our ground-breaking digital service in Hamilton,” wrote Jennifer McGuire, general…
UPDATE: As of January 3, 2012, The City of Hamilton now offers this information on their new Integrity Commissioner webpage [http://www.hamilton.ca/YourElectedOfficials/Integrity+Commissioner/] [box style=”box_gray” type=”download_box”]Updated – download a .doc format of the complaint form: Complaint under section 9 of the Integrity…
The City of Hamilton’s Culture is moving from the Community Services umbrella to Planning and Economic Development where it will merge with the existing Tourism division under EcDev. The move is effective February 6, 2012 and reflects an increasing point-of-view at City Hall of the arts as an economic…
My favourite Australian comedy group The Chaser [http://www.chaser.com.au/] is at it again. They have a show called The Hamster Wheel [http://www.abc.net.au/tv/hamsterwheel/] One of the segments of the show is ‘Politics with Cats’ which explains “a difficult issue to you in…
To be honest, I really have done much in the way of design on my webblog (blogsite in Hamilton political speak) since 2007. This is the umpteenth post saying I will dive into design again and hopefully it won’t be followed by the same pattern as the previous ones…
A slight change of pace for my blog this morning. Here’s a picture of one of my guinea pigs last night after he found the pocket of my hoodie to be what seemed like a good hiding place. ![](http://blog.joeycoleman.ca/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Pouch_Guinea_Pig_1-300x509.…
I love hockey for its fast pace, complex strategy, nationalistic overtones, and the fights. While, I used to love it for the fights. *The New York Times *changed my point-of-view about hockey fights with an excellent series about the life and early death of hockey enforcer Derek Boogaard [http://www.…