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For years Hamilton East—Stoney Creek has been a riding Ontario's New Democrats could safely expect to win, but a recent controversy and a slate of high-profile candidates may have put it in jeopardy for the party.

Wastewater surveillance has gone from niche science to mainstream public health tool over the course of the pandemic. But some experts caution that the data collected could lead to privacy concerns, especially because samples are often gathered from public sources. Wastewater tracking for COVID-19 could lead to privacy, ethics concerns, some scientists say

In 2005, the Ontario government unanimously passed legislation that called for the province to be fully accessible by 2025. It will fall to whichever party is elected as the next government on Thursday to meet that deadline.

Ontario is reporting 865 COVID-19 hospitalizations and 12 more deaths linked to the virus.

You may have figured a global pandemic that upended Ontario businesses, schools and health care for two years, infected millions and led to the deaths of 13,000 people would totally dominate the provincial election campaign. But you'd be wrong.

The Fraser Valley Bandits continued their perfect season-opening road trip after Thomas Kennedy delivered two clutch free throws in a 71-70 win over the Honey Badgers at FirstOntario Centre in Hamilton on Friday night.

Residents in the Hamilton area say the environment is among their top Ontario election concerns, and they'd like to see politicians take more action to fight climate change. Here's what each party is doing to protect nature.

Hamilton police arrested and ticketed a Toronto-based lawyer for trespassing near a Progressive Conservative campaign stop on Thursday, but Caryma Sa'd says she was targeted for criticizing party leader Doug Ford.

Wilson is the latest musician to donate to the university. His collection includes photographs, paintings notes and annotated galley proofs of his memoir Beautiful Scars.

As part of CBC's Ontario election coverage, we are taking in-depth looks at the party platforms and promises on issues that matter most to you. In this edition, we look at what the four major parties are promising on rental housing and rent.

The COVID-19 pandemic cast a spotlight on long-term care and showed that private corporations should not be in the business of elder care, say three of Ontario's four major political parties, who pledge to remove for-profit care from the system.

Halton Regional Police say three men have been arrested after a weeklong drug trafficking investigation in Burlington, Ont.

Ontario is reporting 1,005 COVID-19 hospitalizations and 20 more deaths linked to the virus.

Police services across Ontario are facing growing calls for reform, yet the issue has been largely left off the political radar during the provincial election campaign, public safety experts said. That's a problem, says University of Ottawa criminologist Michael Kempa.

Workers with the City of Hamilton have been given four more months to provide proof of full vaccination.

Hamilton will host a FIBA Basketball World Cup qualifiers game on Canada Day — July 1 — when Team Canada will take on the Dominican Republic.

Hamilton police is asking for the public's help in identifying a man who allegedly sexually assaulted someone at the Flamboro Valley Camping Resort last weekend.

The Hamilton police hate-crime unit announced on Wednesday that they have arrested a 17-year-old male in relation to vandalizing a Pride crosswalk. Police say on May 13, a young male spray painted the newly installed Pride Crosswalk in the area of Keeywadin Street and Parkside Drive in Waterdown.

Residential school survivors, students and government officials including Minister of Crown–Indigenous Relations Canada Marc Miller participated in a tree planting ceremony at the former Mohawk Institute Residential School in Brantford, Ont., on Tuesday.

A 40-year-old man suffered only minor injuries when another man crashed a stolen SUV into a Crystal Beach, Fort Erie home on Saturday, Niagara Regional Police say.

PC Leader Doug Ford didn't show up for the trucking protests that paralyzed downtown Ottawa for three weeks. He has yet to visit the capital during this election. And he moved his only scheduled stop in Ottawa from Thursday to next Monday. His opponents are only too happy to point out his absence.

CBC Hamilton has won a top award for digital news gathering for its coverage of a deadly kidnapping and the reaction of the local Pakistani community.

Perfetto, a horse from Freelton, Ont., has been selected to race in the one of the world's most prestigious races featuring trotting horses. The Elitloppet takes place in Stockholm, Sweden on Sunday May 29.

As summer travel plans begin, people in Hamilton are facing long waits to get their passports renewed. On Thursday morning, at least 40 people were waiting under the rain outside Service Canada on Upper James Street before it opened at 8:30 a.m.

Services at the Saltfleet District High School site and Today's Family childcare centre will remain closed on Tuesday due to a continued power outage from the storm this weekend.

When it comes to the staggering cost of gasoline, what exactly is behind the price consumers are paying? CBC News breaks down what you're paying for at the pump.

Both the Ontario Liberals and NDP had hoped that they would have definitively left the other in the dust by this point in the election campaign, and sitting within clear striking distance of Doug Ford's Progressive Conservatives.

Downtown resident says trucks don't obey the existing rules to stay off his street, so he wonders if the new routes will get better compliance.

As the death toll related to the powerful storm that swept Ontario and Quebec on Saturday reached 10 on Monday, some of the hardest-hit communities were still working to take stock of the damage.

Soaring gas prices may mean some people will stay close to home this summer, but Niagara Falls, Ont., is so far seeing no shortage of visitors as the tourism season picks up.

The four major political parties are promising billions in transit spending. All of them pledge expand transit networks, and three of them say they'll subsidize fares and operations. Here's what they're promising.

As the sun poked out from behind the mountains in Kamloops, B.C., early Monday morning, dozens of people gathered at the Tk̓emlúps Powwow Arbour to mark the one-year anniversary of the announcement that potential unmarked graves had been found at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.

Three of Ontario's four main parties are promising to change the province's electoral system, a lofty goal some political science experts say may not come to pass.

Damaged trees, power lines and buildings in Hamilton leave over 450 customers without power on Sunday following a storm that tore through Southern Ontario on Saturday.

Marineland has banned a number of people from its premises, some of whom have never visited the Niagara Falls, Ont., tourist attraction, days before the facility was set to open for the season.

All four major parties report dealing with hateful incidents in Ontario's election campaign, often targeting racialized candidates.

A series of dangerous thunderstorms rolled across southern Ontario on Saturday leaving four people dead.

Ontario reported 1,116 hospitalizations and 12 new deaths due to COVID-19 on Saturday.

Over 60 students from two local secondary schools celebrated Eid al-Fitr together on Friday. The event spurred the first-ever Muslim Student Association for one of the schools and the organizer hopes it might inspire school boards to observe such days of significance.

This season of Someone Knows Something: The Abortion Wars will to look into the doctors who were the targets of anti-abortion activists in the 1990s for providing abortion services, including Hamilton doctor Dr. Hugh Short.

Hamilton police have arrested and charged two men with first-degree murder following the shooting death 3½ years ago of Marko Bakir, 31.

This Victoria Day weekend, you can check out an art show, cheer for the Hamilton Bulldogs or - responsibly -- set off some fireworks.

The southern Ontario community where a girl's remains were found in a river this week is "in shock and is searching for information on how such a thing could happen," Haldimand County’s deputy mayor said Thursday. OPP shared new details with CBC on Friday.

The Ontario election campaign has largely ignored Indigenous people and issues, according to several current and former political leaders and analysts who hope that will change soon ahead of the June 2 vote.

Conservative leadership hopeful Leslyn Lewis claims an international pandemic treaty could lead to the suspension of the Constitution and a global government. The experts say she's got it all wrong.

For a few days this month, Jessica Watson's kitchen table in Hagersville, Ont., was covered with thousands of spiny, black caterpillars, part of a raise-and-release butterfly business she says will add pollinators to the area.

The city of Hamilton has ordered accessible transit provider DARTS to immediately pull more than one-third of its fleet off the road amid an audit it says revealed "significant failure rates" during safety inspections.

Two of the leaders of Ontario's four major political parties have been sidelined with COVID-19 with two weeks left to election day.

The Supreme Court of Canada will hear the Ontario government's appeal on whether or not it will be able to keep PC Leader Doug Ford's mandate letters secret.

Doug Ford rolled into NDP Leader Andrea Horwath’s home turf of Hamilton and aimed to persuade blue-collar workers to vote for him June 2, in what one expert sees as an effort by the Progressive Conservative leader to try to reduce the NDP's ability to "make a late-campaign play" for the union vote.