Pokemon in Gore Park, Saturday Night, 11pm
Downtown was alive with young people when I walked in Gore Park around 11 p.m. Saturday night. It wasn’t a concert or some official special event, a group of young people had gathered to play Pokemon. [](http://joeycoleman.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/WP_20160716_001.jpg)Gore Park, Saturday July 16, 11pm I…
Congrats to Dr. Disc on 25 years, Mark, You're An Inspiration
Hamilton’s great independent music/record store Dr. Disc is celebrating 25 years of operation. Think about that for a second, they opened in 1991 only two years before home dial-up Internet was available in Hamilton, in a decade which saw the introduction of peer-to-peer file sharing popularized with Napster, and…
Water Your Trees During Hamilton's Dry Summer Season
An engaged civic leader brought a good point to my attention today – the City is losing many young trees to the dry weather and will have to replant them at taxpayer expense in future years. The issue is even more important with the loss of Ash Borer…
Pet Peeve: Opening the Bus Windows Cause the A/C is Cold
The bus is cold, so somebody opens the back windows to let in the hot humid air from the outside. It seems a reasonable method of achieving the goal of warming up the bus, after all, that hot air will pour in and the cold air will be…
Buzzfeed Won't Take Trump For President Ads, Cancels Deal With Republican National Committee
File under moral and smart. Politico is reporting Buzzfeed pulled out of a $1.3-million advertising deal with the Republican National Committee over objections to Donald Trump’s rhetoric. Buzzfeed’s leaked document says the company could not countenance “having employees make ads, or working at the company and having our…
London Free Press to Print in Hamilton, A Sad Day
The* London Free Press*, a paper I read as a kid in the 80s and 90s while visiting my grandfather, will no longer print in London. My biggest concern is what this means for the quality of the publication with a print deadline which must account for shipping…
The Amazing Commencement Name Reader
Featured today in Inside Higher Ed is a fun little story and YouTube video of Hamilton College Dean of Faculty Pat Reynolds reading names during commencement. From the article: Its dean of the faculty, Pat Reynolds, has been timed, and he reads the names of the nearly 500 graduates…
Prestigious and Other Overused Words
Public trust in journalism is beyond broken, it is basically non-existent. To be effective, journalism must secure the trust of a super-majority of the public, a bare majority is not enough. Which brings me to one of the reasons I don’t trust journalism, the overuse of adjectives such…
On Cycling Lanes Beside The Light Rail Transit B-Line in Hamilton, I Need to Be Convinced
I don’t believe a dedicated cycling lane is cost-effective as part of the redesigned Main and King Streets as part of the construction of the Light Rail Transit B-Line. The issue was brought up at the Cycling Committee last week and there is a good summary of the…
Changing it up: Speaking at moMonday's Hamilton on (you guessed it) Monday
I think you’ll enjoy me sharing my entertaining story – which you think was from a sitcom – of the hilarious date I went on in 2004 which started when I she invited me to the races with her parents. I thought car races, it was horse racing…