This is a regular CATCH summary of votes at committee and council meetings. This report covers the month of December 2013.

The origins of Hamilton’s lawsuit against the federal government reveal a council driven by anger that extended to also spending nearly a quarter million dollars suing several youthful opponents of the Red Hill expressway. 

Taxpayers have already forked out well over $5 million in legal costs in the city’s lawsuit against the federal government over an alleged conspiracy to delay construction of the Red Hill Parkway more than a decade ago.

City staff proposals for a smaller aerotropolis include an option that would urbanize 30 hectares more than the OMB-approved amount. 

In the middle of a very public battle over Line 9, Enbridge quietly won approval to expand flows in a parallel pipeline that is more than half a century old.

Shortly after US Steel announced the permanent end of steelmaking at Hilton Works, city manager Chris Murray provided councillors with an update on the city’s strategic plan. 

The city’s legal department is promising to reveal how much has been spent in the nine-year lawsuit against over 40 federal civil servants and cabinet ministers.