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Val King cried as she shared her personal story for the first time in front of an audience, at Monday's Sisters in Spirit vigil honouring missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, trans and two-spirited people.

The new director of the McMaster Indigenous Research Institute (MIRI) is helping hundreds of thousands of people understand Indigenous history in Canada. Tracy Bear spoke to CBC Hamilton after a virtual discussion with star Dan Levy, who completed the course, and its instructor.

McMaster University said it will be 'cooperating fully' with Hamilton police and supporting their work to identify those who participated in any illegal activities during a “fake homecoming” event on Saturday.

David Côté's 36-yard field goal in overtime earned the Montreal Alouettes a come-from-behind 23-20 win over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on Saturday.

New Hamilton project, Depave Paradise, aims to replace parking lots, concrete and asphalt with gardens and trees.

Downtown Hamilton restaurant Nique has closed temporarily after facing scrutiny for its refusal to enforce the Ontario-mandated vaccine passport.

David Fernandes created Creepy Bits, a six-episode horror series, in the lead up to Halloween.

The 150 kilogram statue of a general from the War of 1812 has been stolen, police say, from a Niagara Falls cemetery.

The minimum wage in Ontario goes up by 10 cents an hour on Friday, an increase that some, like grocery store worker Brady Hakker, are dismissing as so little that it's basically meaningless.

The healing process has not ended now that Canada has marked its first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, and the dialogue needs to continue, elected chief of Six Nations of the Grand River, Mark Hill says.

The former Mohawk Institute Residential School, now the Woodland Cultural Centre, became a gathering place on the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, with survivors, their families and elementary school students dropping by to mark the occasion.

Mahingan Lamarr, who is Cree and Algonquin, wrote an essay in his Grade 8 class in Hamilton about why John A. Macdonald statues should be removed.

Project 215+ began as a small dedication to all the babies and children who never made it home from Kamloops Indian Residential School. The project has gained momentum amongst many Haudenosaunee beaders, including at Six Nations in Ontario.

Kyle Joedicke, a 29-year-old Haudenosaunee artist, is painting Indigenous murals across Hamilton.

Ontario's Special Investigations Unit (SIU) is probing the police involvement following a series of collisions that ended with a woman dying and a driver fleeing on foot.

A former politician will likely be appointed to fill a Hamilton city council vacancy after councillors said their job is too hard for an ordinary citizen with no experience to do for a year.

Community members and police are being trained on how to use newly purchased ground-penetrating equipment to scan the 200-hectare site of a former residential school in Brantford, Ont., according to Kimberly Murray, who's formerly with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.

A Fonthill, Ont. man is facing a sexual assault charge stemming from an incident at an ayahuasca ceremony that happened in Mississauga last December, Peel police say.

A downtown Hamilton restaurant that is refusing to enforce Ontario's vaccine passport is now the subject of a new Ministry of Labour investigation.

Mo Babouli and Kyle Bekker scored as 10-man Forge FC defeated Panama's Independiente 2-0 Tuesday to reach the quarter-finals of the Scotiabank CONCACAF League.

"You've got to try this," says rider Jan Finch. "You've really got to try this."

CBC Hamilton spoke with Indigenous community members who shared their thoughts on the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, what they will be doing to mark it and how others should spend it.

Supercrawl organizers have set up a free, two-day festival offering music, food trucks and drag performances coming to Bayfront Park in Hamilton.

Built in 1967 as a centennial project, the renovated apartment tower in Hamilton now has a second, energy efficient life. The changes mean the building has gone down to 114 rent-geared-to-income units, from 146, but CityHousing Hamilton vows to replace them.

An Ontario farm where an outbreak of COVID-19 affected more than 200 workers, including a migrant worker from Mexico who later died, now faces 20 charges following an inspection by the provincial Labour Ministry.

Brantford police say a Grand Erie District School Board teacher is facing sexual assault charges involving an "inappropriate relationship"with a high school student from more than 20 years ago.

Paul Hamilton, a 31-year member of the Hamilton Police Service, was named deputy chief of support services. In his speech he stressed the need to reach diverse communities and try to repair the relationship between them and police.

Bernie Custis Secondary School (BCSS) will fly its flag at half-mast to mourn the death of an 18-year-old student killed late last week.

Various Hamilton business owners are refusing to enforce Ontario's proof-of-vaccination policies, with some appearing on websites and social media groups that list Canadian restaurants and other businesses opposed to enforcing provincial proof-of-vaccination policies.

A truck driver charged with careless driving causing death was due to have his first day in court Monday, but it was delayed.

The elected chief of Six Nations of the Grand River sent a letter to Ontario Premier Doug Ford asking that National Day for Truth and Reconciliation to be a provincial holiday.

Hamilton police have identified the victim of a drive-by shooting in the city’s east end on Friday.

Hamilton police are investigating after a McDonald's employee was reportedly hit in the face by a customer who was not wearing a mask and refused to provide proof of vaccination.

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The city has confirmed that Dan McKinnon and Andrew Grice no longer work there.

A new athletic development program is out to help high school-aged BIPOC athletes in Hamilton reach the next level in their athletic abilities.

Norfolk County police are investigating after someone working on a ginseng farm was killed by a piece of equipment Thursday.

Service industry workers in Canada say they're bearing the brunt of anger, frustration and general confusion from clients over new vaccine mandates that they had nothing to do with creating, but are now responsible for enforcing.

Sarah VanNetten used to drive from Simcoe to Hamilton to sit at her husband's bedside. Now she's part of a relay team that's running the route.

The city is sending a bylaw officer to educate a bistro in Dundas about the new provincial proof-of-vaccination rules, after the business posted a message prompting questions about its vaccination policy.

The day-long deluge that soaked Hamilton on Wednesday set new high-water marks for Sept. 22, but it's still not the wettest September on record.

A Burlington, Ont., elementary school teacher has been charged in the case of an alleged sex crime dating back almost 40 years ago, Halton Region police say.

The police service says the man exposed himself to someone on Aug. 12 and again on Sept. 22 close to the Glendale Falls entrance near Old Mud Road between 11 a.m. and 12 p.m.

Researchers at McMaster University have found several similarities between the outbreak of an infectious disease and the release of a new hit song.

Hamilton's third-string quarterback, David Watford, picked up his second straight win on a rain-filled night as the Tiger-Cats defeated the Ottawa Redblacks 24-7 Tuesday at TD Place.

Outreach workers had interacted with 477 people living at encampments in Hamilton between January 2020 and this July. Out of those, 73 of those people have been permanently housed, according to city data.

Wednesday was the first time many Hamiltonians had to provide proof of vaccination before entering some businesses, and city residents have so far had a mix of experiences.

CHCH reporter Lisa Hepfner, a Liberal candidate, has just turned the Hamilton Mountain riding red.

Niagara Region Public Health is reporting its first laboratory-confirmed case of West Nile Virus this year.

Ian Chan says he and the staff at Emerson 109 near McMaster University in Hamilton have turned away tables of potential customers, rejected counterfeit vaccine certificates and even been told to stick their COVID-19 shots somewhere inappropriate.