Labour Arbitrator Gives Waterloo Fire Fighters Inflation-only increase

Waterloo’s Fire Fighters are receiving the same inflation-based pay increases voluntarily agreed to be Guelph firefighters, an arbitrator ruled in late July [http://www.canlii.org/en/on/onla/doc/2014/2014canlii39995/2014canlii39995.html] . Ontario’s emergency services workers are not allowed to legally strike, meaning when municipalities and…

Hamilton Municipal Heritage Committee for August 2014

HMHC will focus this meeting upon a heritage permit related to 493 Dundas Street East in Waterdown. The agenda package does not include any information on the permit, only that there are numerous delegations related to the item. Live video starts at 12noon.…

Dieppe 72 years later: Hamilton Remembers [Replay]

[module type=”aside” width=”half” align=”right”] **Full Video: Hamilton’s Dieppe Raid Commemoration Ceremony 2014** [/module]It was 72 years ago today that 582 soldiers of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry landed on the beaches of Dieppe [http://www.rhli.ca/dieppe/dieppemain.html] in Nazi-occupied France as part…

Jason Thorne's Tumblr Blog

Just in case you didn’t know new City of Hamilton General of Manager of Economic Development and Planning Jason Thorne isn’t like his predecessor, he is running a Tumblr page where he shares articles related to his portfolio. From what I can tell, from my own site logs,…

Hamilton City Council for August 15, 2014

Hamilton City Council meets today to ratify the decisions of the past week. There was only one contentious vote this week, that being the demolition of the Hermitage Ruins during the Planning Committee Live video starts at 930am…