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Writing and argument on the questions this work keeps running into: how cities renew themselves, how public institutions hold their nerve, and what the legal profession owes the communities that sustain it.

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13 August 2026City BuildingThe Hamilton Spectator Hamilton built the Commonwealth Games. Now we need to rebuild the places our children play Hamilton hosted the inaugural Games in 1930 and has not staged a multi-sport event near that scale since. Much of the city's sport infrastructure is now aging badly, and the case for renewing it is a case about who gets to participate.
29 July 2026Access to Justice A Lawyer at the Kitchen Table Reimagining pro bono to bring commercial legal advice within reach of small businesses and the communities that depend upon them. On the OBA, TABIA and Paladin Legal Access Program, and why preventative business law belongs in our idea of access to justice.
16 July 2026Civic PolicyThe Hamilton Spectator In rejecting a ban on AI data centres, Hamilton chose deliberation and courage Hamilton was once the Electric City, and electricity arrived with real fear attached. The answer then was not prohibition but regulation and broader access. A case for confronting risk honestly rather than rejecting innovation reflexively.
6 July 2026City Building The New 'Fabric' of Hamilton: The TD Coliseum and the Reinvention of the Coppley Building Cities do not reinvent themselves by forgetting what they were. On a walk through a pre-Confederation garment factory being prepared for new life across the street from a reopened arena, and what the two projects together say about downtown renewal.
30 June 2026Civic PolicyThe Hamilton Spectator Our libraries are for learning, not for crisis intervention Public libraries have become front-line responders to a crisis they were never designed or resourced to manage. On what that costs the institution, its staff and the people who depend on it.
24 May 2026Civic Policy When Compassion Begets Paralysis: What the Waterloo Encampment Decision Means for our Civic Future A close reading of Regional Municipality of Waterloo v. Named Respondents, and the widening gap between rights-based litigation and practical governance. Why the burden of systemic failure keeps landing on those least able to solve it.
11 May 2026Civic Policy Compassion Cannot Mean Accepting Downtown Decline Ours is a downtown asking for help. On pathological altruism, rational compassion, and why protecting shared civic space and supporting vulnerable people are not opposing commitments.
29 November 2025City BuildingThe Hamilton Spectator We can help Hamilton’s vulnerable and build a thriving downtown Revitalization is not the opposite of compassion. It is one of the most powerful tools we have to enable it. Written after the TD Coliseum opening, on the false choice between a thriving downtown and helping the vulnerable.

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