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Craig Clark
16 Jul 2021

Dundas Street to be renamed in some Ontario cities

Toronto city council voted 17-7 to remove and rename Dundas Street and other public amenities bearing that name. The street is named after Henry Dundas who played a key role in delaying the end of the...

Craig Clark
18 Mar 2021

Hamilton receives federal funding for affordable housing projects

The City of Hamilton will be receiving over $10 million through the federal government’s rapid housing initiative, which hopes to support up to 3,000 new and permanent affordable housing units acro...

Craig Clark
13 Oct 2020

Hamilton will extend outdoor patio dining through October 2021

City council voted last Tuesday to extend the popular bylaw that allows restaurants to have outdoor dining until October 2021. The outdoor dining district program allowed over 160 businesses that were...

Jayson Koblun
21 Aug 2018

Large cycling investment approved for Hamilton

More of Hamilton will soon be safer and more accessible to cyclists thanks to a $300,000+ investment that was unanimously passed at Hamilton City Council in an effort to continue improving city cyclin...

Robert Cekan
28 Jun 2018

Laneway housing close to approval in Hamilton

On June 19, planning staff pitched to amend the zoning bylaw to allow homeowners rearing onto a laneway or alley the opportunity to build a secondary unit as a standalone structure. The bylaw change...

Jayson Koblun
11 Apr 2018

$372 million transit cash for Hamilton

Almost $400 million to spend on transit in any Canadian city is guaranteed to have a huge impact. In an infrastructure spending agreement between the federal government and province, the City of Hamil...

Robert
09 Feb 2015

Editorial: Getting council on board with Hamilton transit

It’s rapidly becoming evident that transit is the issue de jour. Nay – it’s likely THE political hot potato of the next few years. And so it should be. As the GTA and GHA are ...

Dev Team
27 Jan 2015

As a former city councillor….

YES, I’M BITTER. I love an election eleven years ago, and I lost it because of some mistakes I made. Perhaps reading this will give Hamilton’s new Councillors advice on how to avoid my errors. Spe...

Dev Team
15 Jul 2014

A quick question to council | LRT

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Are you in favour of spending any municipal dollars for a light rail system in Hamilton if the Province asks council to do so? urbanicity sent this quick question t...