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With Labour Day coming this Monday and summer coming to an end, here's a look at what's open and closed in Hamilton this long weekend.

Courtney Skye is a research fellow at the Yellowhead Institute, a First Nation-led research centre. She spoke with Metro Morning's Ismaila Alfa about the issues facing Indigenous communities and what she feels has been missing from the conversation on the campaign trail.

A 15-year-old boy has been arrested and charged after a Pride flag was stolen from a home in the Waterdown area of Hamilton, say police, who are investigating the incident as a hate crime.

A third person has been charged seven months after the killings in Fort Erie, Ont., of two women, one from Windsor and the other from Toronto.

A 50-year-old man is charged with aggravated assault, police say, following a stabbing in St. Catharines Wednesday afternoon.

At least 619 people in the county of Brant and 225 people in Niagara Region have received a third COVID-19 vaccine shot according to local public health units.

Hamiltonians have a short time period to get informed about the Sept. 20 federal election, says a local federal politics expert. And with the election being called in the summer, people are more distracted than usual.

Housing advocates are questioning how Ontario's proof of COVID-19 vaccination system is going to work for people who don't have access to a printer, let alone a smartphone.

Hamilton police say officers laid more than 1,000 charges for excessive noise, street racing and dangerous driving from mid-June to the end of August.

A COVID-19 outbreak that public health said began at Sizzle nightclub and infected dozens of people has been declared over. The city is also increasing testing in response to rising daily case counts and anticipated demand as students return to school.

Whether it's Ribfest or the Labour Day Classic, this long weekend is full of outdoor fun.

Officials at Mystic Aquarium are asking that they be allowed to resume research on four beluga whales, which was halted following the death of the fifth whale imported this spring from Marineland Canada.

A virtual frosh was expected last year, just six months after the pandemic hit. But this week, as the second September in a COVID-19 world begins, students are still facing a new reality, around the time they thought it may have been over.

Hamilton’s film and music office has been nominated for an international award for helping the crew of the popular Netflix series The Umbrella Academy, featuring Canadian actor Elliot Page.

CBC Hamilton has created an election questionnaire and wants to hear what issues are important to you and what you want to hear politicians discuss when they knock on your door.

A Dunnville woman faces charges for two separate incidents, including a crash that saw a vehicle hit a home and spark a fire, causing extensive damage, according to Ontario Provincial Police.

The closure follows a presentation to members last month, where staff said sales had been dropping since 2019 and asked people to chip in $400 each to help cover what it owed suppliers.

A few days after the city announced it would move forward with its own workplace vaccination policy, it is advising Hamilton employers to do the same to 'protect employees and customers.'

Legal groups and homelessness advocates are speaking out against the city's decision to return to pre-pandemic enforcement at encampments, saying that tearing down tents won't solve housing issues and will only further traumatize the people living in them.

A 29-year-old Toronto woman has been charged with accessory after the fact to murder and obstruction of justice, the second person accused in the January deaths of Juliana Pannunzio of Windsor and Christine Crooks of Toronto.

Six Nations police say two people are dead after a crash on Fifth Line Road that happened just before 8 a.m. on Aug. 27.

Ontario's police watchdog is investigating an incident in Niagara Falls this morning that saw a 43-year-old man Tasered and hospitalized in critical condition.

A new survey intended to find a facilitator between Hamilton police and the 2SLGBTQIA+ community is, the chair of the Department of Sociology at McMaster says, a good place to start to fix a broken relationship.

More than 100 members of Hamilton's Afghan community held at rally at city hall Sunday, calling on Canada to do more to help thousands of people trying to flee from the Taliban.

A severe thunderstorm watch and a heat warning are in place for Hamilton and the surrounding area on Sunday.

Loretta Nadeau walked along Lakeshore Road East Saturday afternoon, striding through heat and humidity with a picture of her brother, Joe Commanda, resting above her heart. He died in 1968 after running away from the Mohawk Institute residential school.

Ontario reported another 740 cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, 551 of which are in individuals who have not been fully vaccinated or whose vaccination status is unclear.

A 19-year-old woman is dead, Niagara police say, after two vehicles crashed in Niagara-on-the-Lake on Saturday afternoon.

In a small gap under the front desk of Little Ray's Reptile Zoo and Nature Centre, the search for a missing Nile monitor lizard came to a halt Friday morning. Markhor, a three-year-old, three-foot Nile monitor lizard was reported missing from the zoo back in June.

Are you ready to have the best garden on your block? Here's how: Ask an expert. Be part of our award-winning live chat with expert gardeners. Also listen to the call-in show with Ontario Today's Ed Lawrence. Call in by dialling 1-888-817-8995 on Monday.

From an anxious child who's hesitant to leave home, to a teen with underlying depression that's worsened due to social isolation and online schooling pressures, young people's mental health has suffered during the pandemic, say Canadian experts urging a focus on students' emotional needs as classes restart.

The Hamilton Tiger-Cats stole the show in the Montreal Alouettes' home opener. Hamilton quarterback Dane Evans threw two touchdown passes in a 27-10 win over Montreal in front of 14,753 fans at Percival Molson Stadium Friday night.

Bea Macapagal, a 32-year-old director and writer who lives in the Hamilton's east end, has her short film in CBC's Short Film Face Off. It's one of nine films in the competition.

With September approaching, the summer is slowly coming to a close. Here are some ways you can soak up the last bit of sun this weekend in Hamilton and surrounding areas.

Ontario will announce a form of proof-of-vaccine certification — commonly known as a "vaccine passport" — for the province, sources tell CBC News. The plan is expected to be revealed early next week.

Women in Hamilton have left the workforce in droves since the start of the pandemic, especially Black, Indigenous and racialized women, younger women, women with disabilities, and low-income workers, the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce’s recent Women out of Work study found.

Anne Marie Aikins, spokesperson for Metrolinx, said ridership across the system is at 20 per cent compared to what it was before the pandemic, but has doubled in recent months.

If there is another province-wide lockdown due to COVID-19, Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board chair Dawn Danko says schools "should absolutely be the last thing that must close." Danko spoke with the CBC about what to expect as students return to class in September.

Three Hamilton women have created a group to help educate young people about opioids.

Connecticut's Mystic Aquarium says a second of the five beluga whales it imported in May from the Ontario theme park Marineland is in failing health.

Niagara police say a 22-year-old man from the Scarborough area of Toronto faces two counts of first-degree murder for a double homicide in Fort Erie.

Hamilton city council has voted in favour of a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy that will require all employees, volunteers and councillors to provide proof of their vaccine status by Sept. 15.

The COVID-19 outbreak at Sizzle Nightclub has grown to 45 cases, and public health officials say interviews with people who contracted the virus there revealed some patrons weren't wearing masks or physically distancing.

Most people run away at the sight of a skunk, but not Sophie Wilson. In the past week, she's not only run toward the black-and-white striped mammals, she's helped save two of them.

A politics expert from McMaster University says Hamilton appears to be a "critical stop" in the election after federal Conservative leader Erin O'Toole visited Wednesday — the third federal party leader to visit the city in just two days.

Police members will be required to provide proof of their vaccination status by Oct. 4, according to a statement released Wednesday.

An innovation that will allow people with limited hand mobility to write, use a touch screen, paint or draw, has earned its creator, a 21-year-old McMaster student, an international design award.

Once finalists are selected, residents will be able to vote on a new name for the park. Then the favourites will be handed over to council for final approval.

The family of a 24-year-old Ottawa man who represented Canada at the 2015 Junior Pan American Games said police have recovered his body from Lake Ontario.

Post-secondary students are telling Elections Canada staff to do "as much as they can" to encourage students to cast ballots after the agency cancelled the Vote on Campus program for the 2021 federal election.