Integrity Matters: With Integrity Commissioner George Rust-D 'Eye

In this edition of Integrity Matters, we caught up with  Integrity Commissioner, George Rust-D'Eye:

1. Since you have been Hamilton’s Integrity Commissioner, how many complaints have you received? Can you please breakdown the number of complaints you received per year? In other words, of the total complaints received, how many were received in 2017, 2016…etc.

Not to duck the question, but it depends partly on the way that you define a “complaint”.
Since I operate entirely on the basis of legislation, resort must first be to the legislation itself, which in this case is both Provincial statute and Municipal by-law:

Section 223.4 of the Municipal Act,2001 authorizes an integrity commissioner (whom I will refer to“ IC”), to conduct an inquiry in respect of a request made by council, a member of council or a

With Damian Darlington of Brit Floyd

In advance of Brit Floyd's much anticipated return to First Ontario on November 4th as part of their Immersion tour, we caught up with vocalist, guitarist, and musical director Damian Darlington. Enjoy our chat with Damian:

1. What is it about the upcoming Immersion show that is different from past shows? Can you give us a sense of what the audience can expect to see.

The audience can expect to see a significantly different set list from previous years. We’re making a point of celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Animals album and playing the whole of the first side of the original vinyl record, which includes the epic track Dogs. We’re also playing a number of tracks from The Division Bell, Momentary Lapse of reason and The Final Cut album that we’ve never performed before, indeed a couple of songs that Pink Floyd never performed live. Of

From Dark to Dawn and a Story of Recovery

There are many stories of addiction but so few about recovery. This weekend, 500recovered addicts (dozens from Hamilton alone) will descend upon Toronto to hear messages of hope, faith and courage. The annual convention of Cocaine Anonymous will have powerful speakers, a sobriety countdown and personal stories of freedom from drug addiction. One of them is a Hamilton man who became addicted to drugs and alcohol and after 10 years of trying, finally escaped the clutches of addiction with help from those in his own community.

Within 5 years of his first drug use, Mark realized that drugs were the source of all his pain. The lack of stable housing place, lack of stability, lack of constant work and struggles with the law led to his first attempt to quit. “I felt so low in jail, like I never wanted to be there again,” he says. But that very night he used again.

“I figured that a geographical cure would help so I went to Vancouver” It started out ok, he was