Hi friends of The Mustard Seed! We are thrilled to announce that The Mustard Seed will officially begin signing up members on Thursday, November 29th. We hope you will join us in launching Hamilton’s community-owned grocery store! The Founding Members Launch Party is a special date in the co-op’s development. Join us downtown at 7:00pm..
Category: Community Updates - page 47
The DNA’s periodic community updates
Hamiltonians are invited to walk Cannon and Queen and plan their conversion from one-way thoroughfares into complete streets. Hamilton City Councillors Jason Farr and Brian McHattie seek a broad group of community stakeholders to help study the conversion of Cannon Street and Queen Street into complete streets. In September, City Council approved a two-way conversion..
Graham Crawford, Durander retired management consultant and founder of HIStory & HERitage Museum has a very important message for the City of Hamilton’s City Manager Chris Murray and his senior management team, the Mayor and our 15 councillors. http://www.thespec.com/opinion/editorial/article/839382–hamilton-has-become-a-problem-gambler-in-need-of-helpby-not-managing-our-budget-the-budget-is-managing-our-council
Two recent commentaries on the potential Casino in Downtown Hamilton provide a good review of the pitfalls of urban casinos and their potential negative social effects. Raise the Hammer: http://raisethehammer.org/article/1703/casinos_and_low-income_households:_research_review Hamilton Spectator opinion piece: http://www.thespec.com/opinion/columns/article/837578–a-casino-will-make-hamiltonians-sick-with-addiction-and-money-crises
The OLG President and CEO Rod Phillips will be at City Hall Today at 2pm to take questions from City Council’s Casino Sub committee. If you are unable to attend, please visit Joey Coleman’s site at HAMONT.ca for a live video streaming of the session.