Task force

Solid, well-placed legal advice always is to be listened to, but at the end of the day, the public and community need to know as much as possible, as soon as possible, without exposing the corporation to any avoidable lawsuits and liabilities over contractual matters or highly sensitive personal matters.

The City of Hamilton had the Mayor's Task Force on Transparency, Access and Accountability, which made 27 recommendations.

The task force ran a non-scientific survey of Hamiltonians, and over 80% of respondents stated they do not trust City Hall.

What are your thoughts on the recommendations and on public trust?

I must say I found it incredibly ironic that the new Change Council majority were to usher in a new era of accountability and transparency, Yet, one half of the way through this term of council, 80% of the 300 Hamiltonians surveyed expressed distrust towards City Hall.

So as much that can be made public as possible that doesn't put anybody in legal jeopardy or in any kind of disclosure harm, I'd be for that.

The City of Hamilton had the Mayor's Task Force on Transparency, Access, and Accountability, which made 27 recommendations.

The task force ran a non-scientific survey of Hamiltonians, and over 80% of respondents stated they do not trust City Hall.

What are your thoughts on the recommendations and on public trust?

80% distrust is obviously a serious problem.

Be nice if they came out before the election.

And again, I think I know why they're not doing that.

I think that the task force recommendations ought to get implemented, and it doesn't seem to me in my research that the task force recommendations get implemented.

So I think if we look at those two as examples that are working well elsewhere, that can really help us move things forward in Hamilton.

The city of Hamilton had the Mayor's Task Force on Transparency, Access, and Accountability, which made 27 recommendations.

The task force ran a non-scientific survey of Hamiltonians, and over 80% of respondents stated they do not trust City Hall.

What are your thoughts on the recommendations and on public trust?

So looking at the results of the task force, I, I wasn't surprised by the recommendations.

They really run into some common themes around transparency, communication, accountability.

Um, when we see people saying or hear people saying that they do not trust City Hall, ultimately I believe that comes down to not having good information, right? And I've talked about the importance of the counselor facilitating that, that quality communication, getting residents information that they need.

starts with an ESC Guideline article entitled 2026 ESC Guidelines for the Management of Heart Failure.

developed by the Task Force for the Management of Heart Failure of the European Society of Cardiology, ESC, with the special contribution of the Heart Failure Association, HFA of the ESC, endorsed by the European Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery, or EACTS, by Lars Kuber and colleagues from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.

These are very much awaited guidelines on classification, staging and management of heart failure or HF incorporating early detection,

risk factors and advances in therapies.

Today we will discuss the key insights from the 2026 ESC Guidelines for the Management of Heart Failure, which were recently presented at the ESC Congress in Munich.

I'm delighted to be joined by Professor Marianna Adamo from Brescia, Italy, who served as one of the chairpersons of the guideline task force.

The new guidelines introduce several important changes which we'll discuss over the next few minutes.

Dear Mariana, thank you for joining us today.

changes that all happened in the guidelines.

And we come now to the final questions.

First of all, I want to thank you and the entire task force of the guidelines for the enormous amount of work behind these changes.

I'm sure many of the new recommendations will generate considerable discussion over the coming months, but I want to know a bit about the consensus process.

This is not right.

I'd support implementing the recommendations from the mayor's task force on transparency, access, and accountability.

More open data, clearer communication, and a councilor who explains their decisions instead of just announcing them is what Stoney Creek needs.

What are two of your priorities for Ward 10, and how will you achieve them?

The public has the right to know how decisions are made and where all the money is going.

It's as simple as that.

The City of Hamilton had the Mayor's Task Force on Transparency, Access and Accountability, which made 27 recommendations.

The task force ran a non-scientific survey of Hamiltonians and over 80% of respondents stated they do not trust City Hall.