Friday, May 18, 2012

Thanks to our friends....


A special thanks to our friends at The Hamilton Spectator, CBC Hamilton and Raise the Hammer, for their links to The Hamiltonian's ongoing coverage of The Best Place to Raise a Child. 

3 comments:

  1. This topic deserves the attention of our local and national media. I don't think elected officials should ignore this topic. If you have a vision and refuse to discuss it, what do you really have?
    Sorce

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  2. AnonymousMay 19, 2012

    Annex Burlington... or just co-opt their good standing as we do when we boast of Hamilton's inroads on employment numbers, using the CMA yardstick as proof (Burlington and Grimsby being statistical waterwings).

    Burlington has been named a gold-level youth-friendly community at least twice by Play Works: The Ontario Partnership for Active and Engaged Youth.

    http://cms.burlington.ca/Page7402.aspx

    Burlington has already ranked #2 nationally by Today's Parent in 2011.

    http://cms.burlington.ca/Page7403.aspx

    http://lifestyle.ca.msn.com/family-parenting/family-life/rogers-gallery.aspx?cp-documentid=28914109&page=9

    That standing was reaffirmed in MoneySense's Best Places to Raise Kids 2012 index, where Burlington ranked #2 nationally (and, by default, #1 east of Alberta). Hamilton came in at #66 in that same sample (of 190 cities) -- behind Ontarian entrants Caledon, Sudbury, Windsor, Ajax, Guelph, Sault Ste. Marie, London, Pickering, Oshawa, Sarnia, Milton, Aurora, Thunder Bay, Halton Hills, Brantford, Kingston, Newmarket, Oakville, Whitby and Ottawa. Mississauga and Vaughan trailed Hamilton at #69 and #70 respectively.

    http://list.moneysense.ca/rankings/best-places-to-live/2012/for-kids/Default.aspx?sp2=1&d1=a&sc1=0

    http://www.moneysense.ca/2012/03/20/best-places-to-raise-kids/

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  3. AnonymousMay 20, 2012

    The answer may lie in tackling two big problems that the city has struggled with for ages: environmental toxins (eg. Hamilton LHIN boasts highest rate of lung cancer incidence in the province and is in the same ballpark for most other cancers) and systemic intergenerational poverty (which is linked to poor health outcomes, lower educational attainment, children’s future income and ability to avoid homelessness/entanglement with justice system).

    Neither is as easy as coining a $49,000 slogan, which is of course why we're asking this question almost five years after it was adopted as a mission. >> http://hallmarks.thespec.com/2007/10/the-50000-quest.html

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