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The Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board is moving forward with it’s plans to move out of the downtown core. This despite an offer from the City of Hamilton to assist them to relocate into the old Cannon Knitting Mill. The HWDSB Trustees surprised everyone by abruptly pulling the pull…

[](http://blog.joeycoleman.ca/2011/12/calling-the-mayors-scandal-peggygate-reveals-a-gender-bias-against-women-in-politics/5434719183_c2cedd45e3_o/)Hamilton City Hall by Tom Flemming via Flickr Hamilton’s city council will hold a special meeting sitting as a committee on June 28, 2012 to discuss a new web strategy that will include a complete redesign of the city’s embarrassing…

[](http://blog.joeycoleman.ca/2012/05/possible-cp-strike-will-impact-hamilton-trains/749px-lakeshore_west_go_train_westbound/) ***UPDATE:** CP and the union reached an agreement to continue passenger commuter service during the labour disruption.* Hamilton GO train users will need to take the bus if Canadian Pacific Railway workers hit the picket lines. The union representing 4,800 CP employees conductors, engineers, yard workers…

City Council agendas are again being released to the public on Fridays. This follows two months during which the release was delayed three days until the Monday prior to the meeting. Using the City definition, this is a rollback in transparency. The withholding of public agendas was one…

From this week’s Intelligence Squared debate: Ban College Football from Intelligence Squared U.S. Debates on FORA.tv — JC —…

It’s little surprise that CBC playlist for Hamilton music will continue. CBC Hamilton’s is focusing upon the local cultural scene and they’ve been running daily stories about the local music scene. CBC’s online music service, CBC Music, is facing a CRTC hearing and what online listeners are playing…

TheSpec.com War of 1812 map canvas [Thinglink](http://www.thinglink.com/) is the “[it](http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/create-social-and-interactive-images-with-thinglink_b13131) [thing](http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/2012/04/26/tool-of-the-week-for-journalists-thinglink-for-interactive-images/)” in journalism circles this month and TheSpec is putting it to good use today with a [great interactive map](http://www.thespec.com/news/canada/article/727126–interactive-war-of-1812-points-of-interest) of The War of 1812 in southwest Ontario.  Full credit to their web team for a very creative…

City councillors passed a new media policy today as GIC, bringing an end to a saga that began when the Mayor’s chief of staff declared she and the Mayor would only speak to “a journalist that has a boss that I can complain to.” The new policy was widely…

City councillors passed a new media policy today as GIC, bringing an end to a saga that began when the Mayor’s chief of staff declared she and the Mayor would only speak to “a journalist that has a boss that I can complain to.” The new policy was widely…

The so-called “Accountability and Transparency” committee is moving towards accountability and transparency – which is not to say they are actually being accountable or transparent. I just received from City Clerks a copy of the agenda for their meeting tomorrow morning. On the agenda, a presentation from Toronto’s…