GREATER HAMILTON’S INDEPENDENT VOICE DECEMBER 5 — 11, 2019 VOL. 25 NO. 46 Chilled FILM: KNIVES OUT • THEATRE: THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOME • PERSPECTIVE: BLOOMBERG IS RUNNING • FREE WILL ASTROLOGY 2 DECEMBER 5 — 11, 2019 VIEW VIEW DECEMBER 5 — 11, 2019 3 THEATRE 07 NO PLACE LIKE HOME INSIDE THIS ISSUE DECEMBER 5 — 11, 2019 08 COVER BURLY CALLING: THE BARTOPS FORUM FOOD 05 PERSPECTIVE Bloomberg is 10 Dining Guide Running 06 CATCH Being Confused MOVIES 18 REAL ESTATE Listings Are Down 16 REVIEW Knives Out 19 FREE WILL ASTROLOGY 17 Movie Reviews THEATRE MUSIC 06 REVIEW Hairspray 08 Hamilton Music Notes 07 REVIEW Glengarry Glen Ross 11 Live Music Listing 07 PREVIEW There’s No Place Like ETC. 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HAMILTON, ONTARIO L8P 1K2 HAMILTON’S WEEKLY ALTERNATIVE SINCE JANUARY 5, 1995, VIEW IS PRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPER USING VEGETABLE OIL-BASED INKS 4 DECEMBER 5 — 11, 2019 VIEW [PERSPECTIVE] by MICHAEL TERRY dates to support. He could get people clean water. Instead, he’s doing this. That BLOOMBERG might be the most telling thing of all. The mere act of running this campaign ought to disqualify him from winning it. IS RUNNING One wonders where the Democratic establishment rests on this, but you can be sure it will tragically give better praise to his candidacy than the likes of Bernie Sanders. Sanders, you see, is not even really a Democrat! He had the audacity to exist as an independent Senator, and now he dares to try to foist the Democratic nomination away from the party itself! Yet, who amongst the power brokers in the DNC will take to the air- waves to lambast Bloomberg for only re–registered as a Democrat last year, after leaving the party in 2001? AS THE TIRESOME American election ego that he has decided to do this. A For now, candidate Bloomberg has cycle wearily plods towards the first pri- deliriously warped view of the political no chance of appearing in any maries, with disdain for billionaires and process is the only thing that could make Democratic debates. That’s because he the dramatic wealth inequality largely this human think he deserves to get in does not have the minimum number of defining the campaign so far, billionaire the race at this point, and that anyone at donors required, and has decided he Mike Bloomberg apparently said to him- all actually needed him to. The over- doesn’t need to bother with donors self: “You know what they want? A bil- whelming majority of Democratic voters because he’s so rich. He’ll try to sell this lionaire!” In recent weeks, this unfairly have declared they were satisfied with off as selflessness and he’ll sadly get away wealthy human has ‘tested the waters’, the candidates already on offer, and hell, with it. But, in reality, a donor require- coyly signing up to appear on we already had a billionaire in the race! ment is a must, precisely because this is a Democratic primary ballots, while allow- The show of force is so obviously unde- vote to be won, not a contest to be pur- ing the media ecosystem that he has a mocratic. What is the power of this chased on the airwaves. There’s already massive amount of control over write money? This show of force? Well, the lat- talk of the party changing the rules to glowing pieces about how much value est polls have Bloomberg around five per- make room for the 14th richest person Bloomberg would add to the conversa- cent. He’s already ahead of the likes of on earth, because well, he’s the 14th rich- tion. Now, Bloomberg is in for ‘real’, Kamala Harris, who dropped out of the est person on earth. Not that Bloomberg eschewing the early primaries, because, race on Tuesday, partly in reaction to the actually cares. Here’s what he has to say well, he can do whatever the hell he introduction of Bloomberg to the cam- about it, “It is up to the DNC. They can wants. He’s a billionaire, after all! He paign. Andrew Yang, who has emerged set the rules,” Bloomberg told reporters pushed a tiny, infinitesimal fraction of his as an outsider candidate with a large in Virginia on Monday. “If they set the fortune into the ring, and it translated online following, trails a man who just rules where I qualify, I would certainly into the largest ad buy in primary history, sort of showed up and was like, hey I real- debate. If they set the rules where I don’t to the tune of $34 million. For perspec- ly don’t want Elizabeth Warren or Bernie qualify, then I won’t.” A brutishly tive, Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders to be the nominee, so I’ll just anti–democratic sentiment that is of Sanders has the largest donor base of the throw this totally insignificant percent- course being spun as some sort of philan- prospective nominees, with over one age of my fortune at the problem, and at thropic act. This is a man who thinks he million, raised $25.3 million in the the very least I’ll cause some annoyance. can win a primary contest without actu- third–quarter. Read those numbers back, Bloomberg, like all billionaires, could ally facing any of his opponents. He’ll be and you’ll get an idea of the scale and do so much with the money they’ve able to remain unchallenged, flooding scope of Bloomberg’s power, and the undeservedly raked out of the popula- the television sets around the nation, and plainly unfair nature in which a man like tion, labour base, and resources of this playing pretend that he’s a real candi- this can get involved. world. Hell, if he wanted to, he could date, maybe for long enough that he will It is a true testament to Bloomberg’s find dozens of Senate and House candi- force the party to consider him so. V VIEW DECEMBER 5 — 11, 2019 5 [CATCH] by DON MCLEAN YOU MAY BE forgiven if you are confused about the added it to the other stuff already on the table current public consultations on whether or not to along with another set of display boards. pave over more farmland. There are at least four BEING CONFUSED IS EXPECTED The remaining “consultations” run Monday separate sources of possible confusion. December 9 at the former Dundas town hall from At the first level, you may not know what the 2–4 pm and 6–8 pm; and Wednesday December acronyms mean. There are so many that planning 11 at St. Naum of Ohrid Macedonian Orthodox staff included an appendix of the short forms Church, 1150 Stone Church Rd E. Earlier sessions when they explained this consultation plan to have taken place at Battlefield House in Stoney councillors in late October. They listed 15 of them Creek and the Braley Centre in downtown — from MCR and GRIDS2 to LNA, PPS, RI, Hamilton. DGA and P2G. But none of the sessions offers any actual And once you convert these to actual words, opportunities for public discussion. There are no you may still be confused as to what they might power point or verbal presentations, and no pub- mean. MCR, GRIDS2 and DGA are particularly lic forums where ideas might be heard or key ones in this process. They respectively stand exchanged. You’re just invited to drop in, look at for Municipal Comprehensive Review, Growth many display boards, and maybe leave your com- Related Integrated Development Strategy Update ments. At an earlier MCR–GRIDS2 session you (from GRIDS1), and Designated Greenfield Area. got a write–in ballot on the weighty question of But even with the acronyms spelled out, you may whether you prefer houses to be built with garages be forgiven if you don’t understand what they at the front or at the back. At these ones there are actually mean. Try comprehending “municipal also some broad questions you can use tokens to comprehensive review” for example. Would you “vote” on.