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Citizens At City Hall @CATCH_HamOnt

CATCH (Citizens at City Hall) is a volunteer community group that encourages civic participation in Hamilton, Ontario. #HamOnt

Joined April 2014
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Subsidies for Enbridge paid by you - a guest essay on why Canada's sixth largest company is worried about #HamOnt. hamiltoncatch.org/articles/2…

Subsidies for Enbridge paid by you — Citizens at City Hall

When a vice president from Enbridge, the sixth richest company in Canada, decides to grace  the opinion pages of Hamilton’s local paper —  not the whole TorStar chain, specifically just The Hamilton...

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The Ford government’s plan to jack up home heating bills is facing increasing headwinds in #HamOnt and across Ontario. hamiltoncatch.org/articles/2…

Higher heating bills under fire — Citizens at City Hall

The Ford government’s plan to jack up home heating bills goes before a legislative committee next week as momentum builds against Bill 165. Hamilton city council’s resolution has been echoed by...

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Will there be even more discounts in #HamOnt growth fees and what will that mean for taxpayers? hamiltoncatch.org/articles/2…

Ensuring bigger tax hikes? — Citizens at City Hall

Nearly half of this year’s property tax increase was imposed to compensate for provincially-forced discounts in development charges (DC). City council is now considering providing developers with...

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The major threats to farms, wetlands, streams and natural areas in #HamOnt now centre around the airport. hamiltoncatch.org/articles/2…

Status of stop sprawl — Citizens at City Hall

The successful stop sprawl movement in Hamilton has more work to do. The major threats to farms, wetlands, streams and natural areas in Hamilton now centre around the airport.

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The independent regulator says NO to Enbridge. So does #HamOnt council, but Ford promises higher home heating prices. hamiltoncatch.org/articles/2…

City fights high gas prices — Citizens at City Hall

City council has taken a pre-emptive swipe at Enbridge’s campaign for higher home heating bills. At issue is a regulatory gas rate decision worth hundreds of dollars per home.

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Parking reform — Citizens at City Hall

Changing or eliminating municipal requirements to provide parking is critical to creating more affordable housing, encouraging sustainable transportation, reducing storm runoff and reducing heat...

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How parking reform can advance housing, transit and climate objectives in #HamOnt. hamiltoncatch.org/articles/2…

Parking reform — Citizens at City Hall

Changing or eliminating municipal requirements to provide parking is critical to creating more affordable housing, encouraging sustainable transportation, reducing storm runoff and reducing heat...

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James Hansen, North America's most prominent climate scientist says the 1.5C target is history. hamiltoncatch.org/articles/2…

Goodbye one point five — Citizens at City Hall

The most prominent climate scientist in North America says the planet has kissed goodbye to the target of keeping global warming below 1.5C. James Hansen says the drastic temperature spurt over the...

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Hearings on the fate of the Garner Road marsh have been pushed off again as developers scramble to bolster their case for “relocating” the #HamOnt wetland to accommodate construction of five warehouses and parking for more than a thousand vehicles. hamiltoncatch.org/articles/2…

Marsh reprieve — Citizens at City Hall

Hearings on the fate of the Garner Road marsh have been pushed off again as developers scramble to bolster their case for “relocating” the wetland to accommodate construction of five warehouses and...

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The Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority has joined calls for an investigation of Bill 23 and other provincial changes affected watershed agencies. hamiltoncatch.org/articles/2…

More investigation calls — Citizens at City Hall

Pressure is building for a re-examination of provincial legislation that has weakened Conservation Authorities and banned them from providing ecological advice to city governments. Last week the...

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The OLT hearing on the Garner Road marsh in #HamOnt has been delayed. hamiltoncatch.org/articles/2…

Garner Marsh fate postponed — Citizens at City Hall

The Ontario Land Tribunal (OLT) hearing respecting the Garner Road Marsh property scheduled to start on October 2 has apparently been postponed. It was to determine the fate of the wetland and...

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The anger about the Greenbelt giveaway could be applied to an even larger provincial giveaway in #HamOnt of farmland, forest and wetlands. hamiltoncatch.org/articles/2…

Greenbelt only part of giveaway — Citizens at City Hall

Approving development of nearly 2000 acres of local Greenbelt lands last November was in addition to doing the same for over 5400 acres of rural land in Hamilton three weeks earlier. The owners and...

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The Integrity Commissioner’s report on Greenbelt removals released last week includes over seventy instances where the person he was questioning did “not recall” significant information. hamiltoncatch.org/articles/2…

Epidemic of not recalling — Citizens at City Hall

The Integrity Commissioner’s report on Greenbelt removals released last week includes over seventy instances where the person he was questioning did “not recall” significant information. Those not...

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Those who led last year's revolt at the Hamilton Conservation Authority have now been elected to lead it by an almost entirely new board. hamiltoncatch.org/articles/2…

Conservation reversal — Citizens at City Hall

There have been dramatic changes in the Hamilton Conservation Authority board with clear echoes of the unsuccessful revolt that took place last year. Two of the revolt leaders now are installed as...

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McKibben calls in the scariest yet in the climate saga - dramatic increases in ocean temperatures. hamiltoncatch.org/articles/2…

Oceans frying too — Citizens at City Hall

Last month was the hottest May ever for both North and South America. But in what Bill McKibben is calling “the scariest moment yet in the climate saga” we are witnessing a dramatic jump in ocean...

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#HamOnt Garner Road Marsh OLT hearing rules set as corporate owner caught in environmental violations. hamiltoncatch.org/articles/2…

Garner Marsh future darkens — Citizens at City Hall

The procedural rules for the Ontario Land Tribunal (OLT) hearing on the Garner Road Marsh have now been set for the three-week hearing beginning on October 2. But the changes to provincial legislat...

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#HamOnt council has aligned with the opposition to the PC Ford government's Bill 23, and promising to continue the fight to protect social, environmental and democratic goals. hamiltoncatch.org/articles/2…

Council challenges Bill 23 — Citizens at City Hall

Councillors appear fully united in their anger at the provincial Progressive Conservative government’s Bill 23 . An initial response decrying the financial impacts of the legislation was approved...

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The association set up to represent all Ontario municipalities denied permission to delegate on controversial Bill 23 hamiltoncatch.org/articles/2… #HamOnt

Not allowed to speak — Citizens at City Hall

In a highly unusual move, the Association of Ontario Municipalities (AMO) have been refused permission to speak to the legislative committee charged with detailed examination of Bill 23.

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New provincial legislation will gut the environmental role of Conservation Authorities and turn planning laws upside down.hamiltoncatch.org/articles/2…

New threat to Garner Marsh — Citizens at City Hall

Hearings of the Ontario Land Tribunal on the fate of the Garner Road marsh will start in October of next year. But massive changes to provincial legislation on Conservation Authorities announced last...

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The extreme pro-developer bias of the Ontario Land Tribunal established by a Hamilton Spectator investigation was on display in last week’s OLT’s procedural decision on the future of the Garner Marsh. hamiltoncatch.org/articles/2…

Tribunal favours developers on Garner Marsh — Citizens at City Hall

The extreme pro-developer bias of the Ontario Land Tribunal established by a Hamilton Spectator investigation was on display in last week’s OLT’s procedural decision on the future of the Garner...

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