Special Investigations Unit Investigating Red Hill Valley Parkway Collision
[](http://joeycoleman.webfactional.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/SIU_Bold_St_18Nov12.jpg)SIU investigating on Bold Street, November 18, 2012 (Joey Coleman) Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit is investigating Hamilton Police involvement with a motorcycle that crashed into a guard rail while being chased by Hamilton Police. The SIU says, in…
Hamilton Municipal Heritage Permit Review Subcommittee for August 28 2013
Auchmar, St. Paul’s Presbyterian, Ancaster Old Mill, and Ancaster Town Hall are well known heritage buildings in Hamilton. All are on this week’s permit review agenda, along with the former Bank of Montreal at Main and James, and four other properties. All changes to designated buildings in Hamilton…
OMB rules Lynwood Charlton Hall can move to Augusta, radial separation remains intact
“The appeal is allowed and Zoning By-law 6593 of the City of Hamilton is hereby amended.” With that ruling, Ontario Municipal Board member Richard Makuch overturned City Council’s denial of Lynwood Charlton Hall’s request to move a few blocks to 121 Augusta. Full Background: A City’s Shame –…
Your Tax Dollars at Waste: MacNab Transit Terminal
The finishing touches of a $565,000 HSR improvement project, originally scheduled for completion in November 2012, are underway. [](http://www.joeycoleman.ca/wpfix/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/BSr_t_wCAAAvkQS.jpg)The fruits of a $565,000 project are starting to be installed Four monitors have been installed inside the MacNab Transit Terminal downtown to provide next bus…
School Board Chooses Shirley Glauser as New Stoney Creek Trustee
Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board Trustees chose stability and familiarity for themselves last night with Shirley Glauser to represent Stoney Creek. Glauser, a well-known and widely involved Ancaster resident, served on the School Board during the 2006-2010 term representing Winona, Glanbrook, and urban Ancaster. Glauser was one of 21…
It's time to modernize Albion Falls, not close or rope off the bottom
[](http://www.joeycoleman.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/4093970093_c0de316e9b_b.jpg)Albion Falls (Photo: Florin Chelaru CC-BY via Flickr http://flic.kr/p/7eLEFg) Albion Falls is one of Hamilton’s great gems and it is losing some of its beauty. It has become extremely popular with dozens of people visiting on an average day and…
Freelton Residents Ordered to Not Use Municipal Water – Boil Water Advisory in Effect
UPDATE: The Boil Water Advisory is lifted, full statement on City website here. Residents of Freelton, in North Flamborough, are being asked by Hamilton’s Medical Officer of Health Dr. Elizabeth Richardson to “not to use the water supply for drinking and other uses” following the detection of bacteria…
A Badge and a Vest Mounted Camera – Every Cop Should Have One
The Steve Mesic police shooting is a topic of conversation for many as we struggle to comprehend how and why this tragic event happened in our community, absent of any of that information. Mesic was shot, and killed, by Hamilton Police on June 7, 2013. The SIU is…
Andre Marin investigating provincial de-escalation guidelines, what it means in Hamilton
**UPDATE: **This morning, the Special Investigations Unit charged Toronto Police Constable James Forcillo with second degree murder in the shooting death of Sammy Yatim. Full SIU news release. [](http://www.joeycoleman.ca/wpfix/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/AndreMarin.jpg)Ontario Ombudsman Andre Marin (Ombudsman Ontario photo) Ontario’s Ombudsman Andre Marin [is looking](http://www.ombudsman.on.ca/Newsroom/Press-Release/2013/Ombudsman-to-investigate-Ontario-direction-to-poli.aspx) into provincial…
The Dieppe Raid – 71 Years Later
71 years ago, the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry landed at Dieppe for a “raid in force” against the Nazis occupying the French port city. At the end of the day, when the massacre was done, 197 of the men from the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry sustained fatal wounds,…