City's bungled $10,000,000 legal case – it gets worse
More questions about the City of Hamilton’s legal department’s mishandling of a $10,000,000 lawsuit against Deutsche Bank Securities Limited, DBRS Limited and CIBC Mellon Trust Company and others. Thus far, the media has only reported on what appeared to be one dismissed lawsuit. [](http://blog.joeycoleman.ca/2012/03/citys-bungled-10000000-legal-case-it-gets-worse/hamilton_city_hall/)Hamilton City Hall A…
The HSR – they'll get you there …. late.
*If HSR mismanagement could ruin my transit trip tonight, it did.*The Hamilton Street Railway is a challenging public transit system to use: buses run late, detours happen, and the HSR information services will always claim 100% on time, on route performance. It’s typical of a poorly managed transit…
The HSR – they'll get you there …. late.
*If HSR mismanagement could ruin my transit trip tonight, it did.*The Hamilton Street Railway is a challenging public transit system to use: buses run late, detours happen, and the HSR information services will always claim 100% on time, on route performance. It’s typical of a poorly managed transit…
City of Hamilton Ward Boundaries – SHP and KML files
Hamilton’s municipal ward boundaries are now available in an open electronic format for use. Data license I’m releasing the boundaries under the Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL) with credit to Statistics Canada for some of the boundary data. (I used StatsCan census tracts as the framework…
Tyler Sirens – a real-time open source crime map … coming to Hamilton?
Hamilton’s police force plans to encrypt their radio communications in the near future. As part of this initiative, they may provide near real-time activity data. If they do, Hamilton could have competing police activity maps or we may get an amazing series of cooperative maps. Real-time crime map…
Coleman's Collection of Journalism Blogs to Read and Follow by RSS
I follow most of my online content via RSS feeds. I subscribe to over 500 sites and searches using their RSS feeds. Below, I provide a list of 71 journalism related sites I follow. I share them following my talk at the Queen’s Media and Journalism Conference in…
Coleman's Collection of Journalism Blogs to Read and Follow by RSS
I follow most of my online content via RSS feeds. I subscribe to over 500 sites and searches using their RSS feeds. Below, I provide a list of 71 journalism related sites I follow. I share them following my talk at the Queen’s Media and Journalism Conference in…
CBC Hamilton – waiting for City to approve building permit
[blackbirdpie id=”179870590306484226″] As tweeted by @RogerGillespie this morning, the CBC Hamilton staff are now working on the project. Unfortunately, they’re not on James Street yet. The City is reviewing their office plans and the project is awaiting approval of their building permit. The City of Hamilton allows anyone…
A blog post about a song I like
I’m taking my own advice and blogging more often. This post, a country song I’m enjoying: Woman Like You by Lee Brice I quite enjoy the background rhythm, but it’s the lyrics that catch me. They are predictable – listing off all the guys things we eventual give up…
Who are these local weather pundits?
Reporters are robots, we don’t have any opinions or bias, but anonymous sources and the local pundits do. Not only do these sources have opinions, their opinions can be used in place of the writer’s own. I read my local newspaper today and discover that “[d]espite rosy predictions by Environment Canada and…