Opinion
Opinion: Hamilton Council has a role to play post-LRT…or not
The majority on Hamilton City Council who were never onside with LRT but sat by and let the project spiral out of control...
Opinion: Good news that Auditor-General will probe LRT estimates
Ontario’s Auditor-General Bonnie Lysyk says she is going to examine the cost estimates that Metrolinx and the government have put forward for several...
Nation or Notion?
How might we best bid farewell to 2019, as its days dwindle? A retrospective? Oh sure, we might examine the national election which...
Time for independent scrutiny at City Hall
Vito Sgro CPA I made a personal decision after the last municipal election not to comment on city issues for a period of...
Stop the Tax Insanity
David Borsellino Consider the following sobering statistics Below is a chart of residential taxes in six cities per million dollars of assessment....
Minister of what???
Years ago the late Hamilton MPP Eric Cunningham, surveying what he saw as a worrying trend towards creating Cabinet Ministers with no real...
The Beat Goes On…
It started with a gate on a sewage holding tank somehow staying slightly ajar, and the system that should have detected the breach...
And, now what?
October 21 resolved nothing. In fact Canada’s federal election confirmed, in the grand scheme of governance, that history may be in the early...
On Trump’s tweets and other random thoughts
The New York Times devoted a pull-out section in the Sunday Times to an analysis of Donald Trump’s tweets. Here’s what the Times...
“Pearson” minority not likely
Some political observers, analyzing the recent federal election point to Lester Pearson as a Prime Minister that made minority government work. Looking back,...
