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Environment Canada has issued a rainfall warning forHamilton,Brantford, Burlington and the Niagara region.

Hamilton's poetry hotline project was put together by Monday Press, a group of writers and creatives who approached local poets to contribute their work. Callers are asked to enter a number between one and 99, which will then play a recording of the poem being performed by its author.

In 1999, Paula Schnurr and Patti Moore were part of a group in Toronto that ran to set a Guinness World Record for the fastest time in which 100 women ran a one-mile relay.That record stood for 24 years until an American team beat it by five minutes last year. On Sunday, 100 women in Hamilton won it back, they say.

The union representing Ontario liquor store workers has ramped up pressure in a five-day-old strike, with no talks planned to hammer out a deal.

Environment Canada has issued an updated rainfall warning covering much of southern Ontariodue to the remnants of Hurricane Beryl. It warns of rainfall totals of 40 to 60 mm in Hamilton, starting late Tuesday or Wednesday.

Nine confirmed cases of listeriosis have been reported in Ontario as part of an ongoing investigation linked to recalled plant-based refrigerated beverages, health officials say.

A Brantford man has been charged with murder, police say, in the city's first homicide since 2022.

Advocates had asked for a representative for First Nations, Inuit and Metis people in the city. Six councillors opposed exploring the idea, saying council shouldn't have appointed members.

Hamilton, Burlington and Niagara Region will have lots to cheer about when the Paris Olympics kick off July 26. From high-profile athletes to local stars, the area is well-represented in this year's games.Here are some of the local Olympians headed overseas.

The rapper-turned-singer performs Monday in the Niagara Region, raising funds for the Heather Winterstein Foundation. It's his Canadian debut, and proceeds will support Indigenous youth programming that addresses mental health, addictions and human trafficking.

The Ontario government rolled out an online tool Monday to help consumers find outlets to buy beer, wine, cider and spirits, whilesome 9,000 LCBO workers remain off the job in a strike that shows no signs of ending.

After B.C. won over a struggling Hamilton on Sunday night, the Ticats have now lost five straight to start a season - for the first time since 2017 when they dropped to 0-8.

Environment Canada has issued a heat warning for Hamilton, Burlington and St. Catharines starting Monday and continuing into Tuesday.

One tenant's home of 14 years is listed for sale for close to $600K. If it sells, she says there's a good chance she'll become homeless and worries her neighbours will, too.

Get in the car and travel to some of the finest southwestern Ontario cities, towns and villages named after their bigger European counterparts. There are quite a few, including Vienna, Copenhagen,Brussels and Paris.

A team of McMaster University students in Hamilton is eagerly preparing for an expedition to Iceland, where they'll camp out by a series of underground lava tubes they plan to map with a drone.

Hartman, who was born in Brantford, will be honoured with a large tribute on the city's performing arts centre. The city is now taking artists' design submissions.

A former Grand Erie District School Board teacher is accused of "professional misconduct" involving afemale student in the 1990s and will face an Ontario College of Teachers' disciplinary hearing.

As thousands of striking LCBO workers picketed across Ontario on Friday, local employees marched, waved signs and handed out flyers at a liquor store near Upper James Street and Rymal Road West in Hamilton.

Distilleries can only sell hard alcoholic drinks like vodka, gin and whiskey attheir retail stores, in bulk to a local restaurantor through the LCBO. Butbreweries or wineries sellingcider, wine and beer have theflexibility to also sell their productsat eligible grocery and big-box stores.

The 2022 Rogers outage that left 12 million people without wireless and hard-wired services was caused by human error and made worse by management and system "deficiencies," according to an independent review conducted for Canada's telecommunications regulator.

Parents who steal a moment of calm by handing over a smartphone or tablet to a fussy toddler could set off a cycle of poor anger management and other problems,according to a recent study.

Canadian doctors and brain injury experts believe Canadian Football Leagueplayers should be encouraged to use Guardian Caps whenever they have the opportunity, but say the technology does not mitigatethe risk of concussion.

More than 9,000 Ontario liquor store employees walked off the job across the province on Friday after bargaining talks between the LCBO and their union broke down on Thursday ahead of a strike deadline.

As the storm moves toward the Cayman Islands and Mexico, many Ontarians with Caribbean roots are now fundraising to help families back home.

To help travel to cool places during hot days, Hamilton is giving out 2,000 free bus tickets, available at recreation centres and outdoor pools.

Thousands of LCBO employees will walk off the job Friday just after midnight after contract negotiations broke down, the workers' union says.

Disability advocates are set to gather in downtown Toronto Thursday morningto not only mark the historic win of the Canada Disability Benefit, but to gather supportin improving it forpeople with disabilities.

The process will be gradual as the Hamilton post-secondary institution has to first find ways to reduce the demand for parking.

Family and friends of a man who drowned in the Niagara River last month say his body has been recovered.His brother says a small group of family plans to come to Canada to perform end-of-life rituals.

The history of cemeteries at Indian residential schools in Canada is evidence of genocide and crimes against humanity, says independent special interlocutor Kimberly Murray in a newly released historical report.

Niagara Regional Police have identified and charged a suspect in connection to the death of Jessica St. Jules, a Hamilton woman who was found dead in a rural Niagara ditch last month. He isbeing held in custody pending a bail hearingat the Robert S.K. Welch Courthouse inSt. Catharines.

The Canadian artist joins guest host Talia Schlangerto discuss her Biennale installation, Trinket, which consists of seven million tiny glass beads.

Experts are warning Canadians not to heed misinformation spread online that sunscreen can cause cancer, stressing that proper use of the right lotions or sprays is, in fact,one of the best ways to prevent potentially deadly ailments like melanoma.

Hundreds of pages of documents written by experts for two class-action lawsuits paint a picture of Ontario's corrections system as inhumane and poorly managed. The two lawsuits against the province take aim at the use of lockdowns in correctional facilities as a way to deal with staffing shortages from 2009 to 2017.

An Ontario Superior Court justice has ordered an independent accounting firm run the business after a report alleged four landlords spent millions of dollars of investors' money on a lavish lifestyle.

Hamilton police have identified the man killed in a shooting at a large party in the city's Flamborough region on June 30.

WestJet saidit had cancelled a total 1,137flights across Canada as of Tuesday as a result of the mechanics' surprise strike over the long weekend.

Kayla Alexander, Natalie Achonwa and Kia Nurse headline the Canadian women's basketball team headed to the Paris Olympics.

The Hamilton Tiger-Cats lost their fourth straight game to start the CFL season after a 46-yard field goal by Lewis Ward on the final play of regulation time gave the Ottawa Redblacks a 24-22 victory Sunday night.

Developers are among the biggest beneficiaries of red-tape reduction measures brought in by Premier Doug Ford's government, saving hundreds of millions of dollars a year in costs, CBC News has learned.

A roster of 26 women will represent the Haudenosaunee Confederacy at the first-ever World Lacrosse Women's Box Championship in Utica, N.Y. this fall.

Nigerian-born musician and songwriter Tolzee hopes a new song he has released for Canada Day will help younger Nigerians fall in love with Canada's national anthem.

WestJet says the strike that affected tens of thousands of travellers during the long weekend is now over after an agreement with the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association was made late on Sunday.

The month-long celebration of the 2SLGBTQ+ communityreaches its exuberant grand finale on Sunday, bringing rainbow-laden revellers to the streets for marquee Pride parades across the globe.

A man is dead and two are people injured after a shooting at a party in Hamilton's Flamborough region, police say. A portion of Highway 6 is closed as they investigate the possible homicide.

Canada Day is Monday, which means some businesses and services will be closed or operating on special schedules. These are some of the changes you can expect in Hamilton.

WestJet has cancelled over 830 flights, upending plans for close to 100,000 passengers as theunexpected strikeenters its third day on the busiest travel weekend of the season.

Phragmites, an invasive reed, were taking over in Fort Erie, Ont. Cutting them back has been a walk in the park for this small herd of goats.

Players of Catan may think they have enough to worry about when trying to rapidly develop their settlements and cities in order to achieve victory over their friends and family. But now players of Catan: New Energies have to worry about a very real-world problem: environmental destruction.