What portfolio will McMeekin receive with Hamilton's cabinet seat?
Hamilton’s current provincial Cabinet Minister Sophia Aggelonitis lost her Hamilton Mountain riding tonight to the NDP. With this Hamilton’s seat at the Cabinet table is vacant and only one Liberal remains standing: Ted McMeekin. It will be surprising if third term premier Dalton McGuinty breaks with tradition and…
Today's email exchange Bratina vs. Whitehead
In it’s entirety as of 1847EDT (2247GMT) today: **Whitehead, Terry ** ** 5 October 2011 18:47 ** To: “Chapman, Peggy”, DL – Council Only Cc: “DL – News Media (Local)” The Mayor made his comments without attempting to contact me by phone or e-mail before the Fairness committee…
Today's email exchange Bratina vs. Whitehead
In it’s entirety as of 1847EDT (2247GMT) today: **Whitehead, Terry ** ** 5 October 2011 18:47 ** To: “Chapman, Peggy”, DL – Council Only Cc: “DL – News Media (Local)” The Mayor made his comments without attempting to contact me by phone or e-mail before the Fairness committee…
Expect little election night coverage from me this time
I’ll be busy tomorrow with a few open data projects and will not be covering the election much. Not that I’ll need to. It appears The Spectator will be following my lead and mapping results tomorrow night. [blackbirdpie id=”121699374786019328″] One of their editors attended a free mapping workshop…
The campus affinity for the street meat vendor
I’m always found the affinity between street meat vendors and the university students they serve interesting. Why do students (and staff) become fond of their local barbecuer of the high sodium high fat meat product? I first encountered this phenomenon in 2006 when Dalhousie and the City of Halifax attempted to…
Let the City of Hamilton budget process begin!
The City Clerk’s office released the dates of City Council’s first round of budget meetings this morning. They are: This will confirm the following GIC Budget meetings have been scheduled in the Council Chambers, 9:30 am to 4:30 pm:October 13 – GIC – Light Rail TransitOctober 24 – GIC…
Infortainment vs news
NOTE: The following is my intended final version of this post. A draft version appeared due to a versioning error. As I believe in transparency, that draft version remains publicly visible in the revision history. There was an interesting public debate I conducted on Twitter with The Hamilton…
Professionalization of journalism won't help, we need to be open
The professionalization of journalism in Canada will do nothing to address the fundemental problem facing my profession – the public doesn’t trust us. In fact, it will worsen the crisis by increasing public distrust of “journalists” and producing a stigma about journalists – that we carry the stamp…
Professionalization of journalism won't help, we need to be open
The professionalization of journalism in Canada will do nothing to address the fundemental problem facing my profession – the public doesn’t trust us. In fact, it will worsen the crisis by increasing public distrust of “journalists” and producing a stigma about journalists – that we carry the stamp…
While Hamilton dithers, other cities release open data APIs
The good writers at ProgrammableWeb provide regular updates about new APIs on the web. Today, they note 35 new APIs including the following cities releasing APIs: City of Boston Citizen’s Connect API – allows citizens to report problems in their neighbourhood such as #pothole (potholes or road damage),…