Hamilton City Council – Live
Hamilton City Council will meet Thursday to ratify their decision Tuesday to support a West Harbour Stadium for the Pan Am Games in 2015. Council voted 12-3, with Brad Clark absent at the Michael Buble concert in Toronto, for the West Harbour site. Who knows what will happen…
Live: Pro-East Mountain Pan-Am
I’m live at Carmen’s on Hamilton Mountain for the Ticat-Cats pro-East Mountain stadium rally. Twitter is down, I’m using CoverItLive. [Tiger-Cat Pro-East Mountain](http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php/option=com_mobile/task=viewaltcast/altcast_code=208fcb5aae)…
Surprise announcement – Ontario unis granted pension solvency relief
I was caught off guard by the announcement today that Ontario’s public universities are being granted pension solvency relief. I knew there were significant discussions occurring between the Ministry of Training, Colleges, and Universities and the Ministry of Finance. I didn’t know that an announcement was imminent. The…
Andrew Baulcomb
My former Silhouette editor, and current colleague at The Hamilton Spectator, Andrew Baulcomb answered a few questions for the McMaster University public relations page “Daily News” early this week. The Q&A is posted online. Andrew’s an amazing journalist. His prose is captivating and informative. Watch for his bylines,…
Hamilton Future Funding Meeting – Live
I’m at the Hamilton Future Fund Board of Governors Meeting. Instead of just tweeting, I’m going to use CoverItLive for the remainder of the meeting and enable you to comment with your questions or feedback. DISCLAIMER: I’m on my own time and do not represent The Hamilton Spectator…
Two days off – paid work that is
I’m off the next two days from The Spectator newsroom and will be taking Sun, Mon, Tues as my days off for the next few weeks. (The long weekend will be extra long with Weds off as well.) I’ll be in the newsroom from 5am – 1pm Weds…
Joey Coleman, Journalist, Hamiltonian
About Me I’m Joey Coleman, a Hamiltonian who works as an independent crowdfunded journalist, is engaged with open data, involved in my neighbourhood association, a pinball player, and am blamed by City Hall for increasing civic engagement with my work over at www.thepublicrecord.ca. Journalism matters because it helps…
World Cup party on James
Photos from the World Cup celebrations on James Street North Sunday night.…
A journey within the G20 zone
I said I wouldn’t cover the G20 riots. It’s the same thing every summit – a peaceful protest march is met with a show of police force, someone makes the first move, a riot breaks out for the cameras, the protestors are blamed, and everyone forgets about it…
Notes related to the earthquake story
I received an email late last night asking “Joey, I thought The Olympia (33 floors) was the 2nd tallest bldg in Hamilton. How high is 100 King?” Here’s my response: The Olympia has more floors at 33, but is “only” 98.0 m tall. The Stelco Tower is 103.0…