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Prime Minister Mark Carney stunned some Canadian historians over the weekend when he released a pointed video message about the U.S. featuring a War of 1812 general who led the charge against the American invaders of that era.

The family of an Indigenous woman is urging an inquest jury examining her death in an Ontario hospital to rule it was a homicide due to biases, and errors made in her assessment and treatment. Heather Winterstein, 24, went to the St. Catharines hospital on Dec. 9, 2021, but a doctor ruled out infection, opted against doing bloodwork and attributed her symptoms to "social issues," the inquest heard. She returned the next day and died of sepsis after hours in the waiting room.

CBC News has learned from a senior government source that Marineland - the permanently closed theme park and zoo in Niagara Falls, Ont. - is requesting $10 million to $20 million in a federal loan to move up to 30 belugas and four dolphins to aquariums across the U.S.

The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) cleared an officer on Saturday for shooting Daniel Tronko during a 24-hour standoff with police in Welland, Ont., on Dec. 19 that had the neighbourhood under a shelter-in-place, nearby schools under lockdown and a local hospital under a hold-and-secure.

An April 16 search of an illegal Hamilton dispensary also turned up an illegal dog-breeding operation and 10 dogs, Hamilton police say.

Police said on Sunday a man was driving and a woman was the passenger of a motor vehicle when they crashed on Claremont Drive, a dead-end street off of West 5th Street near the Claremont Access and James Mountain Road.

As the warmer weather arrives, officials with the City of Hamilton say they're getting more complaints about illegal dumping of garbage and waste - and it's a widespread problem throughout the city.

Over six years since her son Devan was murdered outside his Hamilton high school, Shari-Ann Selvey says not enough has changed to protect kids. To raise awareness about issues including bullying and youth crime, Selvey is working with Hamilton filmmaker Tyrone Greenidge on a documentary about Devan.

Ontario is looking to sell the $28.9 million private jet that was recently purchased for Premier Doug Ford's use "as quickly as possible," following backlash days after the purchase was confirmed publicly.

At around 12:40 p.m. Friday, police went to the intersection of Concession 5 Road and Kirkwall Road for a crash involving a motorcycle and a pickup truck.

Commuters at the St. Catharines GO and Niagara Falls GO stations share their experience travelling for work outside the region.

The province's police watchdog says it has found no reasonable grounds" to believe a Niagara Regional Police Service officer committed a criminal offence after a man was shot and wounded during a gunfire exchange in Welland, Ont., in December.

A collision between a motorcycle and an SUV in Hamilton left one man dead Friday night, police say.

John Meissner has loved butter tarts since he was a little boy living at a farm in Guelph, Ont. But it wasn't until he had an offensively bad butter tart while judging at a festival in February that he decided he needed to do something to conserve the original recipe of the dessert.

After repeated weather-related postponements, all Niagara-bound lanes on the Burlington Skyway Bridge will be closed Friday night, Ontario's Ministry of Transportation says.

Brantford Police Service says a male pedestrian died after a driver hit him around midnight near Darling and Market streets, downtown.

Kristian Jamieson is running the Boston Marathon for the second time this year and intends to get as close as he can to his great-great-grandfather's record time of 2:24:24 on Monday.

Forge FC midfielder Kyle Bekker gathered recently with teammates to inform them about his recent absence from the Canadian Premier League club. "I had surgery four weeks ago [this past] Monday to remove a tumour after being diagnosed with testicular cancer," Bekker revealed Thursday to CBC Sports.

The provincial government has purchased a pre-owned private jet for $28.9 million to be used by Ontario Premier Doug Ford.

The driver who fatally struck a Hamilton crossing guard in November is facing a charge of careless driving causing death, police said Friday. The crossing guard, 52, was on his way to work on Nov. 13 when the driver hit him at Upper Wentworth Street and Mohawk Road, Hamilton Police Service said.

Ontario is embedding in legislation a policy that would give priority for medical residency positions to applicants with a connection to the province. It requires international graduates to have either gone to school or recently lived in Ontario for 2 years.

Two Hamilton teens are wondering why the city's plan to build one much needed basketball court in Gage Park is going to take 25 years.

Shawn Hollingworth, 55, faces two counts of sexual assault following a Niagara Regional Police Service investigation into alleged assaults of two teenagers.

It's been a rainy week in and around Hamilton, and with more showers on the way, Environment Canada says water could pool on roads and in low-lying areas.

U.S. court documents reviewed by CBC News provide a rare glimpse into a cross-border pipeline for crime guns. A former trucker from Florida has been sentenced to more than four years in prison after smuggling handguns into Canada that were later recovered at 10 crime scenes in Ontario and Quebec.

After evacuating students from Hamilton's St. Joseph Catholic Elementary School three days last week for a suspected gas leak, the Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic District School Board says there was no leak at the school and the smell of gas was coming from somewhere else.

The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) said in a news release the officer, Const. Andrew Lawson from the Toronto Police Service, was charged with manslaughter.

Niagara Falls, Ont., Coun. Mike Strange has been found not guilty of domestic assault, a judge in St. Catharines has decided.

Two lanes will be closed starting at 9 p.m. on Thursday from north of the bridge. All lanes will be closed starting at 10 p.m. on Thursday until 6 a.m. on Friday.

One man has died and four people have been taken to hospital, police say, after a crash just east of Binbrook Tuesday night.

Heather Winterstein was an Indigenous woman facing several personal obstacles, factors that raised her risk of having a bad outcome in the health-care system, the Ontario coroner's inquest into her 2021 death in St. Catharines hospital was told.

New Ontario education legislation proposes to count attendance and class participation into high schoolers' final marks and to mandate final exams, drawing a mix of reaction from students, parents and education experts.

Seven people have been hospitalized with salmonella infections in an outbreak linked to Stoney Creek restaurant Piper Arms, Hamilton Public Health said Tuesday. After eating there for 'wing night' on March 31, Kim Gibson says her sister and brother-in-law, both 50, were 'healthy one day and severely sick two days later.'

The Toronto Tempo have signed Canadian guard Kia Nurse ahead of the franchise's inaugural WNBA season, the teamannounced Tuesday.

As people across the country come together to celebrate the filmmakers and stories behind Canadian cinema, a series of special events will be held to honour the life and legacy of Oneida actor Graham Greene.

The inquest into the death of a 24-year-old woman who died of sepsis in a St. Catharines, Ont., hospital in 2021 has heard from an infectious disease specialist. Dr. Dominik Mertz testified that if an infection had been confirmed or strongly suspected earlier, antibiotic treatment could possibly have prevented her conditioning from worsening.

Niagara Falls, Ont., city Coun. Mike Strange pleaded not guilty Tuesday to domestic assault as the trial for the 55-year-old got underway in St. Catharines. Strange was elected in 2014, after representing Canada as a boxer in three Olympics.

The city started the program, called Spring Free Tree Giveaway, in order for residents to "help grow our urban forest," according to development horticultural technician Mike Kraft.

One man is dead and a woman is injured after two vehicles were involved in a head-on collision in Niagara-on-the-Lake on Monday, police said.

FIFA recently announced Niagara Falls will be a final stop in an upcoming cross-country tour to celebrate the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

Members of a Hamilton residents' group are calling for a public meeting with the company that runs the Dundas Quarry, following its request to import 38 million cubic metres of soil as part of a "rehabilitation" plan.

After being replaced as chair of the Ottawa Street Business Improvement Area (BIA) during an emergency meeting two weeks ago, Michael Carruth says he feels sick that [he] broke the trust" of his fellow small-business owners when he used about $16,000 of the organization's funds to keep [his] head above water personally."

The annual race took place this Sunday through the 30 km, 15 km, 10 km and five km routes that ended at Pier 8 in Hamilton.

The sit-and-fit shoe store has seen some change in the last 100 years while making an effort to stay in business, developing a niche for narrow and wide sizes that has drawn customers from all over the country.

The Niagara-on-the-Lake Museum is one of 12 historic places across Canada up for $65,000 in cash prizes that could help the museum turn its founder's house into an archival centre.

Steelmaker ArcelorMittal Dofasco says it's decommissioning one of its two remaining coke plants in Hamilton, with "the last push of coke" to be completed April 13. The company says it continues to work toward "long-term decarbonization."

Heather Winterstein's skin was discoloured and she was struggling to control her body in a wheelchair the day she died at the St. Catharines, Ont., hospital, a woman who was waiting to see a doctor that day told a coroner's inquest that began March 30.