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.@CheryllCase executive director of CP Planning and a member of a city hall roundtable on expanding housing options, believes the city’s next step should be to specifically INCENTIVIZE affordable units as part of the added density. 1/4 #HamOnt as well!
She pointed to (Toronto) city’s recent legalization of laneway suites, & noted that many resulting units came onto the market at luxury prices. 2/4
Without dedicated policies to ensure it’s affordable, you won’t actually see the new development be serving lower or moderate-income households,” Case said. If the city’s goal was to open up neighbourhoods to a wider variety of residents, she suggests specific subsidies 3/4
Vienna’s city (pop-1.89 million) government owns and manages 220,000 housing units, which represent about 25 percent of the city’s housing stock. These city-owned housing units, called social housing, are meant primarily for lower-income residents.
The city also indirectly controls 200,000 units that are built and owned by limited-profit private developers but developed through a city-regulated process.
The city buys land deemed suitable for residential development and retains control over the type and nature of development. The city then solicits proposals from various private developers, which will build and retain ownership of the housing units
Thanks to @HCCI1 for flagging the 2022 Year End Report on Hate Crime in Hamilton, which is due to come to the police board at its meeting on Thursday. If we want a better city, and I know so many of us do, this can't continue to be our story. 🧵 #HamOnt 
When Hamilton was dubbed the "hate capital of Canada", it was when we had reported hate crimes much closer to the 11-year average of 127 per year. This year, however, we're reporting hate crimes more than 35% higher than the average. Things are getting worse, not better.
After 11 years, we're not much farther ahead. In 2011, we had 180 incidents reported, and in 2022 we had 174. That's not much of a difference. And, to be honest, the dip we saw in 2020 and 2021 was likely due, in some part, to the height of the pandemic.
NDP MPP candidate Sarah Jama at a Samidoun-affiliated event in Toronto in 2021. Jama insinuates that the same people who control Israel “will continue to fund the killing of people here, locally, and globally.” #hamont #Antisemitism #onpoli 1/6 🧵
Jama also says that “the Hamilton police protect Nazism in our city and continue to target Black Muslim Palestinians”. In other tweets shared online, she has said that “police in Ontario have a record of arbitrarily killing babies”. 2/6
Jama’s speech goes beyond being merely offensive and creates actual danger for Jewish Canadians. She is telling people who may have grievances with Hamilton police that the Zionists are responsible. Hamilton has a Jewish federation and a number of “Zionist” synagogues. 3/6
If the Ford government was serious about building the new homes we need they would stop forcing us to waste resources on costly sprawl.
As a council we have a responsibility to call out the Ford government's schemes and political distractions for what they are.
As a council we have a responsibility to call out the Ford government's schemes and political distractions for what they are.
Hamiltonians told us loud and clear in our MCR GRIDSII process that they are desperate to welcome roughly 90,000 homes to the existing built up area alone.
The Official Plan we produced, in response to that message, was expressly designed to deliver on that commitment.
The Official Plan we produced, in response to that message, was expressly designed to deliver on that commitment.
The Ford government has changed our Official Plan and instead mandated sprawl that will cost us all.
As @envirodefence has pointed out by FORCING sprawl the government is diverting homes into more expensive forms & places meaning the same investments will produce fewer homes.
As @envirodefence has pointed out by FORCING sprawl the government is diverting homes into more expensive forms & places meaning the same investments will produce fewer homes.
Do you support equal rights for all migrants, undocumented people, and refugees?
Rally with us TODAY in #HamOnt ahead of the federal cabinet retreat at Hamilton Convention Centre to support #StatusForAll.
No more deaths, no more deportations!
Rally with us TODAY in #HamOnt ahead of the federal cabinet retreat at Hamilton Convention Centre to support #StatusForAll.
No more deaths, no more deportations!
Can't make it to the rally? No problem!
Take a minute to call the cabinet minister closest to you and tell them to say YES to full regularization and #StatusForAll - script and list of numbers here:
migrantrights.ca/cabinetretreat
Take a minute to call the cabinet minister closest to you and tell them to say YES to full regularization and #StatusForAll - script and list of numbers here:
migrantrights.ca/cabinetretreat
We're here from across the country in #HamOnt to call on PM @JustinTrudeau and federal Ministers to ensure regularization for all before their winter retreat.
Send a message now to all of them to SAY YES to #StatusForAll!
SIGN: StatusForAll.ca
Send a message now to all of them to SAY YES to #StatusForAll!
SIGN: StatusForAll.ca
It’s been 60 days since I was officially sworn in as Ward 2 City Councillor. I’m marking the occasion by sharing an update with Hamiltonians based on some of my observations, findings, and conclusions in the first 2 months on the job. #HamOnt
If it feels like the status quo so far in this term of Council, that's by design. There are decades of motions and traditions from previous terms of Council that are still driving this ship forward. It's going to take a lot of will power from Council to turn it around.
And that's a huge challenge for a mostly new Council, one that I think has been stalled because of what I can only describe as a painfully slow transition from one Council to the next. In short, I don't think the City was prepared to transition 10 new members of Council.
BREAKING: We’re taking the Ontario government to court on behalf of @envirodefence for its attempt to hack away at the Greenbelt near Hamilton. We’ve launched this case because @fordnation and his gov continue to squash local democracy with moves like #Bill23. A thread 👇 1/
In November 2022, the Ontario government announced it was changing Hamilton’s official plan to expand the city’s boundary by 2,200 hectares and encroach into farmland and wild spaces that are part of the Greenbelt. This goes against the direct wishes of the people of Hamilton. 2/
An official plan is a land use planning document that guides and shapes development and is used to ensure that future planning development balances social, economic, and environmental interests of the community. 3/
As someone who 1. Grew up in a fundie family and school, & 2. Who has fought against the religious right in #hamont for years, it's taken me a few days to figure out what I want to say.
🧵I'm going to #dobetterforbekett by exposing how Redeemer has made #hamont worse for LGBTQ
🧵I'm going to #dobetterforbekett by exposing how Redeemer has made #hamont worse for LGBTQ
Their silence on Bekett's death reminds me of the silence I witnessed in 2018, when Redeemer and a coalition of #hamont churches hosted and sponsored an ex-gay event at Hamilton Convention Centre, a city-owned property.
Conversion therapy/practices was outlawed in Canada this year, because it is so harmful. But Redeemer saw fit to infect our city with Anti-queer rhetoric, inviting Ravi Zacharias, a Christian Apologist, and his 'ex-gay' lackey Sam Allberry to #hamont
The following corporations own the #HamOnt Greenbelt land that is slated for development:
Multi-Area Developments (DeSantis): 335 acres
Paletta International Corp: 330 acres
Corpveil Holdings/Effort Trust: 225 acres
Marz Homes: 183 acres
Greybrook Realty/Castlepoint: 144 acres
Multi-Area Developments (DeSantis): 335 acres
Paletta International Corp: 330 acres
Corpveil Holdings/Effort Trust: 225 acres
Marz Homes: 183 acres
Greybrook Realty/Castlepoint: 144 acres
Valery Homes: 104 acres
The Guglietti family (Melrose Investment, Rosehaven Homes): 100 acres
After decades of development freeze and Doug Ford committing to NOT infringing on the Greenbelt, why would these big companies keep such properties OR further buy them up?
The Guglietti family (Melrose Investment, Rosehaven Homes): 100 acres
After decades of development freeze and Doug Ford committing to NOT infringing on the Greenbelt, why would these big companies keep such properties OR further buy them up?
These are the people who paid off Doug Ford with 100s of thousands of donation dollars to make this happen.
Doug Ford wants to build in Hamilton so that workers who cannot afford Peel/Halton will move and free up spaces for a Toronto workforce who can't afford to rent a shoebox.
Doug Ford wants to build in Hamilton so that workers who cannot afford Peel/Halton will move and free up spaces for a Toronto workforce who can't afford to rent a shoebox.
Maybe this isn't obvious, so I'm going to say it for the folks in the back - as a queer neurodivergent person I have spent my entire life under a microscope. Most other Two Spirit and LGBTQIA+ people I know have. BIPOC have. If we've managed to survive, we're ready. #HamOnt
I don't need help finding the washrooms. I don't need a manual on how to run or participate in a meeting. If it's in writing, I don't need you to read it to me. I can read it just fine. Will I have some questions? You bet, and I'll ask every single one of them.
I get that we've been so used to having people step into elected office who don't have relevant or contextual experience or who are seemingly not ready for public life. Guess what? The electorate also recognized that and voted for change. So get ready.
I think that the Mayor's statement from yesterday is a perfect way to encapsulate some of the things that I hope the new Council will do away with. 🧵 #HamOnt
Paragraph 3 is where it starts to get problematic. By thanking "all of the candidates who put their names and ideas forward" the Mayor invites us to pay respect to candidates, like Paul Fromm, and their ideas, like Fromm's widely-held white supremacist views. Nope.
It cannot continue to be ok to offer up blanket statements of civility. This is not a communications strategy. It's parroting, recycling, and paraphrasing from a long-out-of-date playbook.
Well, #HamOnt, it's still sinking in, but we really did do it. I'm Councillor-Elect for Ward 2, and I'm really excited about it! I have a lot to share, but I wanted to start from a place of gratitude, and a bit of honesty, about what this result does and doesn't mean.
That picture was taken before our party got going by Lauren who, for 2 elections, has taken on organizing our celebration for Election Day. She is one of hundreds of people who have helped with our campaigns, and I am beyond grateful for every single person who showed up.
Our core campaign team has been meeting to talk about the election for a year. A year. These people gave up so much time to make this happen and I'm not going to let them down. They mean the world to me and I hope I can repay their generosity in time.
It’s Election Day and the sun is rising above our City Hall, a sign of the change to come. I’m hopeful that voters across Hamilton will turn out in record numbers to vote today, to elect a new Council that will lead with compassion, care, integrity, and accountability. #HamOnt
I’m proud of the campaign we’ve run in Ward 2. We’ve been to the vast majority of the more than 200 buildings in Ward 2, knocked on doors out in neighbourhoods, more than once, and opened and staffed a fully accessible office.
We designed 10 unique pieces of campaign literature and have delivered almost 30,000 of them to residents in Ward 2 since I went down to City Hall to register on May 2.
“For the past 19 years of my life, I have had the humbling responsibility of representing Ward 14 (and formerly Ward 8). Throughout this time, I’ve done my utmost to represent the concerns of residents here and across the city;
to hold council and staff accountable by asking tough questions and seeking clarity on issues many would rather have swept under the rug.
On the morning of August 19, 1942, Allied troops took part in Operation Jubilee, an amphibious assault on the French port of Dieppe. In nine hours, enemy fighters killed 907 Canadians, wounded 2,460, and captured 1,946. [1/4]
The Allied force included 582 soldiers from the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry — close to 300 were wounded or captured, and 197 died. Today, #HamOnt's Dieppe Veterans Memorial Park is holding a memorial service to commemorate the 80th anniversary. [2/4]
I spoke with speaks with Alex Fitzgerald-Black (@JunoBeachCentre) about Dieppe’s legacy, some of its lesser-known ripple effects, and what his team is doing to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the battle. [3/4]
1/ Christopher Pretula's vile anti-trans tirade on a #HamOnt bus last week led us into the extremely hostile and aggressive world of "IRL streaming," and Pretula's own history of racism, misogyny, and trolling.🧵antihate.ca/man_charged_pa…
2/ Regularly posting to YouTube in short video clips or long streams lasting 5+ hours, Pretula - who streams as "Mr. Bum Tickler" is facing two charges, according to the Hamilton Police, who are seeking to have the incident classified as a hate offence. hamiltonpolice.on.ca/news/hamilton-…
3/ Our investigation into Pretula revealed that he is a prolific member of the online streaming community, IP2. Unknown to most of the public, IP2 is a small but extremely engaged internet community dedicated to taking online trolling into the streets.
nickpinkerton.substack.com/p/livesteam-fo…
nickpinkerton.substack.com/p/livesteam-fo…
Results from the recent HWDSB student census survey. Students in grades 5-12 were asked questions about their race, religion, sexual orientation and gender identity.#HamOnt @WokeWatchCDN @GTAschoolz @jonkay
🦠👀⛱️With mask mandates largely lifted and many Ontarians with multiple doses, I asked health officials, including @mustafahirji and @twpiggott, what kind of summer the province has in store — and how public-health units will be spending it.
tvo.org/article/hot-vi… #HamOnt
tvo.org/article/hot-vi… #HamOnt
The Hamilton, Niagara and Peterborough health units are all seeing less transmission as well as fewer hospital admissions and outbreaks than in the last few weeks and months. They expect relatively low transmission probably until fall. [2/9]
Despite lower transmission, Hirji worries that abut 8 per cent of PCR tests in Niagara are positive compared to about 2 or 3 per cent through much of the pandemic. Piggott warns healthcare capacity is still very limited. (See here: toronto.citynews.ca/2022/06/10/eme…) [3/9]
🪶🏩Eighteen stories up in downtown #HamOnt, four peregrine-falcon chicks are preparing to attempt their first flights. When they’re ready, a team of volunteers—Hamilton's Falconwatch—will watch from the street and try to keep them safe. [1/6] tvo.org/article/up-up-…
I wrote about the watch last year (tvo.org/article/how-ha…) but then, there were no new chicks in town for them to monitor. Now, after a particularly dramatic year, there's a big family and plenty of excitement expected. The four chicks were banded on May 27 and I attended. [2/6]
To start, climber John Millar (seen from Falconwatch's camera at the nest) descended from the roof of the Sheraton hotel and onto the ledge with the nest. He loaded the chicks into a bag and stayed there so the parents would not see the chicks were gone and abandon them. [3/6]
Speaking here as an individual and not on behalf of the @hamiltonlabour, who hasn't even considered an endorsement process for the municipal elections yet, I just want to outline some of the things I'm happy and excited for in the #HamOnt October municipal elections.
Obviously @jayotied for Public School Board Trustee running in Wards 6 & 9 is closest to my heart and part of necessary change at the HWDSB trustee level.
We'll be on the streets starting next week and campaign donations can be sent by e-Transfer to jayedingtontrustee@gmail.com.
We'll be on the streets starting next week and campaign donations can be sent by e-Transfer to jayedingtontrustee@gmail.com.
We're also looking for sign locations in Wards 6 & 9 (East Mountain and Upper Stoney Creek) if you know anyone who lives there.
I'll be live-tweeting updates on the #OnElxn in #HamOnt and #Niagara tonight for @TheAgenda. Check out TVO (on TV), go to TVO.org, or cruise our social media for live coverage starting at 8 p.m. ET.
Here are the ridings I'm watching:
Here are the ridings I'm watching:
Haldimand-Norfolk, where polling aggregators are predicting a win for PC candidate Ken Hewitt, mayor of Haldimand County
niagarafallsreview.ca/local-haldiman…
niagarafallsreview.ca/local-haldiman…
Flamborough-Glanbrook, where pollsters predict PC former sitting member Donna Skelly will be re-elected cbc.ca/news/canada/ha…
Just got a surprise call from @terrywhitehead re: some research I'm doing (w/ a grant from my scholarship organization, part of the requirements of my award) on municipal elections in Hamilton.
It was as chaotic as you might expect: a thread 🧵
#hamont #yhmelxn
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It was as chaotic as you might expect: a thread 🧵
#hamont #yhmelxn
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I've been reaching out to current/former candidates as I'm researching the experiences of BIPOC candidates in HamOnt municipal elections. @HCCI1 is overseeing this, and my contract began as of Tuesday last week to begin research.
My list of candidates is around 45 long.
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My list of candidates is around 45 long.
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In my email I say all of the above ^ and include my cell number in case ppl wanna get in touch.
Cllr. Whitehead calls me, and without responding to my hello launches into explaining that he thought that McMaster was pulling it's funding from HCCI. This isn't a Mac project.
3/8
Cllr. Whitehead calls me, and without responding to my hello launches into explaining that he thought that McMaster was pulling it's funding from HCCI. This isn't a Mac project.
3/8
Our grotesque recipe for road violence:
We don't have any proper infrastructure for people outside the car. 1/
We don't have any proper infrastructure for people outside the car. 1/
We build our vehicles so big we can't see people outside the car. 2/
We advertise and market our vehicles for speed and recklessness. 3/
