An interesting sub-text to the ongoing saga of the Mayor increase the salary of his Chief of Staff position by 33% is the ongoing stalled negotiations between the City and its public transit drivers. The HSR operators have been without a contract since the new year when their last one…
An interesting project out of the Random Hacks of Kindness event in Philadelphia last weekend called “Cost of Freedom Project [http://www.rhok.org/solutions/cost-freedom-app]” The project tracks the cost of the government identification required to acquire a free Voter ID. The app is the work of a group…
The following email was issued by Hamilton Bob Bratina to the media distribution list at 11:19 (GMT-05:00) this morning. The statement follows in its entirety and with its original formatting > Wednesday, in an interview I made comments regarding the salary adjustment given my Chief of Staff that left…
I attended Hamilton’s first HiveX [http://www.hamiltonhive.ca/?cat=71] young professionals conference organized by Hamilton Hive [http://www.hamiltonhive.ca/] back in October only because I was asked to support the conference by contributing my web and technical skills. I figured it was going to be a…
A Twitter memorial to Canada’s war dead @WeAreTheDead [http://twitter.com/WeAreTheDead] tweeted its first fallen soldier from a Hamilton-based regiment. [blackbirdpie id=”140824960095617024″] @WeAreTheDead is the creation of Glen McGregor [https://twitter.com/#!/glen_mcgregor] of The Ottawa Citizen who requested the names of all Canada’s military…
A Twitter memorial to Canada’s war dead @WeAreTheDead [http://twitter.com/WeAreTheDead] tweeted its first fallen soldier from a Hamilton-based regiment. [blackbirdpie id=”140824960095617024″] @WeAreTheDead is the creation of Glen McGregor [https://twitter.com/#!/glen_mcgregor] of The Ottawa Citizen who requested the names of all Canada’s military…
Today is Remembrance Day, a day I hold close to my heart. I am working today and could not make it to the cenotaph in Hamilton’s Gore Park. My workplace marked the minute of silence and read a passage from For The Fallen [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_…
The following is the text of a press release issued by the City of Hamilton at 09:30 today. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For Immediate Release Agreement clears path for Fifty Road commercial (Winona Wal-mart) and transit developments Hamilton, ON – November 7, 2011 – An agreement that implements the City’s vision for the…