Metro's Hamilton edition scheduled for launch tomorrow – website, twitter, and facebook active
A month ago, Metro news announced plans to expand in four cities, including Hamilton, with digital-only editions. The launch date in their news release: April 2nd. On Friday, as part of a redesign of all Metro pages, the Hamilton Metro News page went live: http://metronews.ca/hamilton/ with the RSS feed at: http://metronews.ca/hamilton/feed/ The…
Metro's Hamilton edition scheduled for launch tomorrow – website, twitter, and facebook active
A month ago, Metro news announced plans to expand in four cities, including Hamilton, with digital-only editions. The launch date in their news release: April 2nd. On Friday, as part of a redesign of all Metro pages, the Hamilton Metro News page went live: http://metronews.ca/hamilton/ with the RSS feed at: http://metronews.ca/hamilton/feed/ The…
No April Fools joke from me this year
I prepared an April Fools joke for publication this year. In light of current events at City Hall (the attempt to gag citizens), I feel the humour may be too biting and would distract from the seriousness of events at City Hall this past week. Sadly, my humour…
Speaking on open data and GRAF
I’m in Ottawa today at the Creative Commons Canada relaunch and open data salon. I’ll be discussing open data, Open Hamilton, journalism and open data, and launching GRAF on [OpenLab.ca](http://www.openlab.ca) – a new project of many Canadian open data movement. I speak at 3pm.…
TheSpec blog: The Newsroom Insider
My RSS package of journalism related blogs I follow is missing a blog I never miss reading a post from: The Newsroom Insider by Jim Poling, managing editor of The Hamilton Spectator. What to know how the newsroom functions and how decisions are made? Follow the blog.…
Hamilton's newest parking lot – 55 Queen St N
The City of Hamilton is powerless to stop construction of the city’s newest “legal non-conforming” parking lot despite issuing an order on March 16, 2012 to the owner to stop construction at 55 Queen Street North (at Market). Ward 1 councillor Brian McHattie expressed frustration the property –…
Hamilton's newest parking lot – 55 Queen St N
The City of Hamilton is powerless to stop construction of the city’s newest “legal non-conforming” parking lot despite issuing an order on March 16, 2012 to the owner to stop construction at 55 Queen Street North (at Market). Ward 1 councillor Brian McHattie expressed frustration the property –…
The story writes itself: transparency committee doesn't post agendas or minutes
[](http://blog.joeycoleman.ca/2012/03/citys-bungled-10000000-legal-case-it-gets-worse/hamilton_city_hall/)Hamilton City Hall Stuck On Stupid – it’s one of my favourite sayings I picked up in the Army and it accurately describes Hamilton City Hall at times. The latest example – the City does not post the agendas or minutes of it’s Accountability and Transparency Sub-Committee…
The story writes itself: transparency committee doesn't post agendas or minutes
[](http://blog.joeycoleman.ca/2012/03/citys-bungled-10000000-legal-case-it-gets-worse/hamilton_city_hall/)Hamilton City Hall Stuck On Stupid – it’s one of my favourite sayings I picked up in the Army and it accurately describes Hamilton City Hall at times. The latest example – the City does not post the agendas or minutes of it’s Accountability and Transparency Sub-Committee…
Executive director of part-time students union makes sunshine list at $126,151.99
The executive director of McMaster University’s part-time student union made $126,151.99 in salary for 2011. The figure is revealed as part of the annual sunshine list released by the provincial government Friday. Similar to all other student associations in the province, the McMaster Association of Part-time Students (MAPS)…