Hamilton, Ontario City Council

Type: Organization

Name: Hamilton, Ontario City Council

First reported 4 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 1 reports

Refurbished low-rent homes in demand

Several former council flats in Frankton have been given a new lease of life and are on their way to being filled.Two lists are being drawn up of pensioners wanting to move into one of a dozen flats sold by the Hamilton City Council.Habitat for Humanity's ... [Published Waikato Times - 4 hours ago]

Entities: Habitat, Waikato Diocesan School, Diocesan School For Girls, Hamilton Boys' High School

First reported 4 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 1 reports

Macpherson: Flag bullying findings

A city councillor is pushing to keep a new bullying report in the spotlight.The audit report - commissioned by Hamilton City Council management as a condition of a former worker's confidential exit settlement - makes 39 recommendations to improve the ... [Published Waikato Times - 4 hours ago]

Entities: Brenda Pilott, Hamilton, Ontario City Council, Harassment

First reported Jun 16 2013 - Updated Jun 16 2013 - 1 reports

Ewan Wilson's legal advise: don't paticipate

Justice Minister Judith Collins has accused me of sitting on the fence and not being prepared to make decisions. There are few things more dangerous than an ill-informed, rambling Minister of Justice.As part of my collective responsibility at the Waikato ... [Published Waikato Times - Jun 16 2013]

Entities: Fluoride, Hamilton, Ontario City Council, Judith Collins

First reported Jun 16 2013 - Updated Jun 16 2013 - 1 reports

Hamilton must vote again on fluoride

The Hamilton City Council has ample evidence to suggest it supported a vocal minority when it voted by seven votes to one to remove fluoride from the city's water supply.To begin with, it has overturned the result of the 2006 referendum when 38 per cent ... [Published Waikato Times - Jun 16 2013]

Entities: Fluoride, Referendum, Peter Gluckman, Hamilton, Ontario City Council

First reported Jun 13 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 1 reports

Push for fluoridation referendum in Hamilton

A Hamilton councillor is pushing for a referendum on fluoridating the city's water supply.After four days of submissions Hamilton City Council voted seven to one last week to remove fluoride from the public water supply.But councillor and Waikato District ... [Published ONE News - Jun 13 2013]

Entities: Referendum, Fluoride, Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Water Supply

First reported Jun 13 2013 - Updated Jun 13 2013 - 1 reports

Pedestrians-only bid for Frankton on market day

Frankton businesses have asked Hamilton City Council to make the western end of the village's main street pedestrians only on Saturday market days.The request would save market organisers up to $900 per week in traffic management costs - at a $7000 cost ... [Published Waikato Times - Jun 13 2013]

Entities: Hamilton, Ontario City Council, Traffic Management, Small Businesses

First reported Jun 13 2013 - Updated Jun 13 2013 - 1 reports

Cameras to protect parking wardens

City parking wardens cop abuse from the public about 70 times a day, their boss told city councillors as he briefed them on plans to trial shoulder-mounted cameras.The cameras are intended as deterrents and to record evidence of abuse - wardens are often ... [Published Dominion Post - Jun 13 2013]

Entities: John Purcell, Hamilton, Ontario City Council, Standard Operating Procedure, Abuse

First reported Jun 13 2013 - Updated Jun 13 2013 - 1 reports

Hamilton councillor seeks fluoridation referendum

A Hamilton councillor is seeking a binding a referendum on fluoridation of the city's water.Earlier this month Hamilton City Council voted seven to one to remove fluoride from the water.However, Waikato DHB member and city councillor, Ewan Wilson, says ... [Published Yahoo!Xtra - Jun 13 2013]

Entities: Referendum, Hamilton, Ontario City Council, Fluoride

First reported Jun 12 2013 - Updated Jun 12 2013 - 1 reports

Fluoride is good, says Chief Science Advisor

The Prime Minister's Chief Science Advisor has spoken out in favour of fluoridation.The Hamilton City Council voted to remove fluoride from water last week, and Hastings residents will have a referendum on the issue in October.Sir Peter Gluckman says ... [Published Newstalk ZB - Jun 12 2013]

Entities: Fluoride, Peter Gluckman, Hamilton, Ontario City Council, Hastings (New Zealand)

First reported Jun 12 2013 - Updated Jun 12 2013 - 1 reports

Fluoride talks get tap turned off

Marlborough District councillor Graeme Taylor was "smacked" by Mayor Alistair Sowman for saying the council would discuss water fluoridation, Mr Taylor said yesterday.Mr Taylor, chairman of the council's assets and services committee which oversaw water ... [Published Marlborough Express - Jun 12 2013]

Entities: Graeme Taylor, Fluoride, Alistair Sowman

First reported Jun 12 2013 - Updated Jun 12 2013 - 1 reports

Wellington Council to support living wage

Wellington council workers may get a pay rise to a level researchers say is needed to live a decent life.A Wellington City Council committee voted 10-five to support in principle the payment of a so-called living wage to staff, and put $250,000 into its ... [Published Yahoo!Xtra - Jun 12 2013]

Entities: Wellington (New Zealand), Workers, Hamilton, Ontario City Council, The Warehouse Group Ltd

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 5 reports

NZ's living wage leader

Hamilton has become the first city council in New Zealand to approve paying all staff a 'living wage', and Auckland and Wellington are considering following suit, a campaigner says.Campaigners say the living wage, calculated at $18.40 per hour, is the ... [Published New Zealand Herald - May 22 2013]

Entities: Workers, Radio New Zealand, Wellington (New Zealand), Auckland

Quotes

"There is 20 to 30 per cent lower decay in fluoridated communities" he says

Dentist a fan of fluoride [Published stuff.co.nz - 2 hours ago]

"Households that once would have transitioned from renting into home ownership cannot afford to buy a modest home, and rental affordability is becoming an issue for those in the $50,000 to $70,000 income range."

Refurbished low-rent homes in demand [Published Waikato Times - 4 hours ago]

"There is no doubt the council has been taking some positive steps to try and turn things around but no-one wants to see this become a tick-the-box exercise, with no meaningful follow-through or engagement with staff behind it" PSA national secretary Brenda Pilott said. - $ Fairfax NZ News

Macpherson: Flag bullying findings [Published Waikato Times - 4 hours ago]

"The synchronicity with Matariki and the signing of the JMA is worthy of note. Matariki heralds the passing of the ‘old’ year, with its ups and downs, and all that was of that time is farewelled. The promise of the new year to come, the potential within, is welcomed. By looking up at the primary star cluster of Te Tauihu (the prow) and its fellow constellation Te Ra o Tainui, one can gaze upward and onward - mauri ora."

Major new Waikato River agreement signed [Published Voxy.co.nz - 21 hours ago]

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Dentist a fan of fluoride [Published stuff.co.nz - 2 hours ago]
Hamilton council tables affordable housing deve... [Published Gate City Daily - 3 hours ago]
Refurbished low-rent homes in demand [Published Waikato Times - 4 hours ago]
Macpherson: Flag bullying findings [Published Waikato Times - 4 hours ago]
Major new Waikato River agreement signed [Published Voxy.co.nz - 21 hours ago]
Council staff paid out to avoid cases going fur... [Published Waikato Times - Jun 17 2013]
Ewan Wilson's legal advise: don't paticipate [Published Waikato Times - Jun 16 2013]
Hamilton must vote again on fluoride [Published Waikato Times - Jun 16 2013]
Fluoride vote doesn't wash with me [Published Waikato Times - Jun 16 2013]
How to buy happiness [Published Timaru Herald - Jun 15 2013]
GM pig feed, fluoride debate, Tuatara genome se... [Published Scoop - Jun 14 2013]
Decision to add fluoride made for the greater good [Published Gisborne Herald - Jun 14 2013]
Pedestrians-only bid for Frankton on market day [Published Waikato Times - Jun 13 2013]
Cameras to protect parking wardens [Published Dominion Post - Jun 13 2013]
Push for fluoridation referendum in Hamilton [Published ONE News - Jun 13 2013]
Hamilton councillor seeks fluoridation referendum [Published Yahoo!Xtra - Jun 13 2013]
Hamilton Council’s fluoride removal concerns NZ... [Published Scoop - Jun 13 2013]
Business Advisory Panel says no to a living wag... [Published Truth - Jun 13 2013]
Nationwide boom in K2 presentations to emergenc... [Published Voxy.co.nz - Jun 12 2013]
Legal highs a curse for busy hospital staff [Published Waikato Times - Jun 12 2013]
Fluoride talks get tap turned off [Published Marlborough Express - Jun 12 2013]
No plans to take fluoride out of cityâs water s... [Published Gisborne Herald - Jun 12 2013]
Wellington Council to support living wage [Published Yahoo!Xtra - Jun 12 2013]
Fluoride is good, says Chief Science Advisor [Published Newstalk ZB - Jun 12 2013]
Waikato DHB: Who will stay [Published Waikato Times - Jun 11 2013]
Drowning in debate [Published Otago Daily Times - Jun 11 2013]
Fluoride would 'lower children's tooth decay' [Published Marlborough Express - Jun 11 2013]
Fluoride debate reopened [Published Rodney Times - Jun 10 2013]
Something is rotten in the teeth of Hamilton [Published Waikato Times - Jun 10 2013]
Fluoride - massive attack [Published Voxy.co.nz - Jun 10 2013]