- Dev Team
- 01 Dec 2011
Humbug and the Aerotropolis
By Peter Ormond Each Christmas season, billions of human beings celebrate the birth of Jesus. Crowds amass to hear excerpts from the Bible, sip eggnog at family gatherings, and exchange gifts. At East...
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- Dev Team
- 01 Dec 2011
Garbage| Less is more
By Robert Leaker The City of Hamilton recently published their municipal performance scorecard. Since this is where all of our precious tax dollars go, I highly recommend that you read it – there ar...
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- Dev Team
- 01 Dec 2011
285 and the crazy people
“There are too many social service agencies in the downtown” has been an easy mantra for far too long by those seeking to attach blame for the decline in Hamilton’s city core. As the reasoning g...
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- Dev Team
- 01 Dec 2011
From the Editor| December, 2011
Christmas is a time when people talk about joy, unity, and gifts. We gather with family and friends to eat and drink. More than any other, Christmas is a holiday of ‘goodwill toward men’ and of to...
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- Dev Team
- 01 Dec 2011
The youth are starting to change
By Ryan Moran In the song “The Youth,” on the 2007 album Oracular Spectacular, the band MGMT declares that “the Youth are starting to change, are you starting to change?” Indeed, in the contex...
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- Dev Team
- 01 Dec 2011
A not so bad Canadian story
By Keanin Loomis Being a voracious consumer of current events, despite the known consequences to my mental health, it seems that there are only two kinds of stories right now – the bad, which are ub...
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- Dev Team
- 01 Dec 2011
Slowly jeopardizing Hamilton’s Future
By Adrian Duyzer The situation in Hamilton is improving. That’s the good news. The bad news is, it’s not improving fast enough. As a city we lack the sense of urgency, the ambition and the...
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- Dev Team
- 01 Nov 2011
The 5 essential economies of cities
Cities are inherently engines of economic development. By their very nature, cities bring a diversity and critical mass of people, ideas, energy and material inputs into close contact to generate enor...
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- Dev Team
- 01 Nov 2011
The value of gamification
By Laura Farr Jane McGonigal predicates that there is a value to gamification – utilizing games to better society. With close to 160,000,000,000 hours spent on online gaming in the last year (15,000...
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- Dev Team
- 01 Nov 2011
Positively jaded?
By Don Forbes I was walking through downtown Hamilton the other day, going from our office at Main and Hughson to James North. I enjoy that walk, as there a number of things that make me smile. It tak...
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