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Whether it's a relationship you lost or the death of someone close to you, grief during the COVID-19 pandemic can be tricky to navigate, and has left many feeling lost in an emotional limbo.

After filling in the gaps for personal support worker agencies in Hamilton during the worst of the pandemic, Jane, a failed refugee claimant from Uganda, was eager to learn about the federal government’s pathway to permanent residence for healthcare workers.

Jeremiah Masoli threw two second-half TD passes as the Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeated Ottawa 32-3 on Saturday to eliminate the Redblacks from playoff contention.

Fall is in full swing across Canada. Here's a selection of fall foliage that CBC photographers, video producers and others have captured in recent days.

The First Nation's elected council shared a media release on Friday stating Ohsweken Public Health had confirmed another member who tested positive for the virus had died.

The clinic is open on Tuesdays from 10 p.m. to midnight in the YWCA located at 75 MacNab St. S.

Niagara regional council, acting on a code of conduct investigation, has voted to dock the pay of the mayor of West Lincoln, Ont., six months after he asked a woman in a private Facebook message if the COVID-19 vaccine changed her menstrual cycle.

Hamilton police are warning the public of a man in an SUV-style vehicle after two reports on Wednesday.

A COVID-19 treatment newly available in Hamilton has doctors underscoring the importance of early testing for people who show symptoms.

The Hamilton Community Legal Clinic wants an injunction that would largely prevent the city from tearing down encampments around the city. The city wants to keep enforcing its bylaw prohibiting tents in public areas.

The Ontario government will allow businesses such as restaurants, bars and fitness centres to start lifting COVID-19 capacity limits starting Monday, and plans to lift all remaining public health measures including proof of vaccination and mask requirements indoors by March 2022, according to provincial officials.

Logan Staats and Skyler Williams, two Haudenosaunee men from Ontario's Six Nations of the Grand River, spent 10 days in B.C. to stand in solidarity with Wet'suwet'en Nation members protesting the Coastal GasLink pipeline. They plan to return in November.

Halton police has charged a Waterdown man for playing the flute while driving in Burlington, Ont.

The path to becoming the Hamilton Tiger-Cats' leading receiver has certainly been a long one for Jaelon Acklin.

Ontario Provincial Police says it is investigating animal cruelty in Haldimand County after finding nearly 40 calves, two piglets and a turkey abandoned and in critical condition.

With training underway, the search for unmarked graves at the former Mohawk Institute Residential School in Brantford, Ont., is close to starting. The group leading the search efforts say it will take over a year to cover the roughly 200 hectares of land.

A jury has found a Hamilton man guilty of second-degree murder for shooting his girlfriend 10 times during an argument outside their home in 2017.

Ontario's Special Investigations Unit has charged Const. Michael LaCombe, an 18-year member of the local police service, with two counts of sexual assault.

Hamilton’s board of health voiced support for a bid by The AIDS Network to get a second safe consumption site, but one local hospital official says the city needs to establish a strategy specific to the opioid crisis.

Racalmuto, Italy’s annual Festa Maria SS. Del Monte has continued for 500 years, and is mirrored by an event in Hamilton featured this week in the Art Gallery of Hamilton Film Festival.

Hamilton’s public school board has unveiled dress code guidelines just a day after trustees voted to remove “sexist and outdated” standards in how it enforces what students wear.

Ontario Provincial Police in Haldimand County says it is investigating an act of animal cruelty involving abandoned kittens.

Hamilton’s public school board trustees unanimously passed a motion during a Monday board meeting to revise its dress code by removing “sexist and outdated standards.”

A driver has been charged after provincial police say they were spotted using what appears to be a piece of cardboard with handwritten letters and numbers as a licence plate.

A new network at McMaster University, launching formally during Latin American Heritage Month, is out to centre Black and Indigenous content in the field of study, while celebrating and supporting Latin American students in Hamilton.

Emergency crews were called to Coreslab Structures, a precast concrete producer, just before 6:25 p.m. on Monday after reports of an industrial accident, according to police.

The eastbound lanes of the highway were closed near Aberdeen Avenue for much of Monday afternoon and evening, funnelling traffic into nearby streets.

The city wants to enforce its camping bylaw by dismantling tents. The local legal clinic wants the city to allow them.

A community group against a proposed warehouse development near the Grand River in Cambridge, Ont., is urging city council to halt the project after learning members of Six Nations of the Grand River may not have been properly consulted, according to documents obtained by CBC News.

Family members of Brock Beck, the son of former NHL player Barry Beck, sobbed in the gallery of a Hamilton courtroom Monday as the man who fatally stabbed the 20-year-old in a Binbrook road rage incident was sentenced to five years in prison.

Every summer, children forget some of what they learned during the previous school year, but now experts are warning that because of school closures and other disruptions during the pandemic, students will have a lot more lost learning to make up for.

A jury will begin deliberating Tuesday in the case of a Hamilton man charged with shooting his girlfriend 10 times during an outdoor argument at their east end home.

Ontario's chief coroner says "it's possible" unmarked graves linked to residential schools have been missed, and is setting up a team to review death investigations from past decades to see whether any should be reopened.

Hamilton police say a driver has been charged with stunt driving on the Red Hill Valley Parkway after they were clocked doing nearly 60 km/h over the posted speed limit.

The family of a Hamilton man who went missing in downtown Toronto in 2019 says a $25,000 reward is now being offered for information leading to his whereabouts.

Allergists across the country have safely inoculated most patients who come into their clinics, regardless of allergy history, says an Ontario doctor who's noticed an uptick in requests for allergy assessments after the government began implementing COVID-19 vaccine certificates last month.

Ontario's chief coroner is investigating the August 2020 discovery of a child's remains in an unmarked grave in Brantford, Ont., to determine if there's a connection to the former Mohawk Institute Residential School.

Hamilton police have arrested four men after linking a pair of recent homicides that killed 17-year-old Keden Bond and 19-year-old Sabir Hassen Omer.

Hamilton police says five more people have been arrested after a destructive, unsanctioned homecoming event near McMaster University two weeks ago.

A special weather statement from Environment Canada says Hamilton and much of southern Ontario could see between 20 and 40 mm of rain Friday.

A group of protesters have been occupying the Arrowdale Golf Course in Brantford, Ont., for days, with one man from Six Nations of the Grand River telling CBC Hamilton, "This is our land," as the city tries to sell a portion of it.

The city of Hamilton is extending its COVID-era rent bank after a recent rush of people struggling to pay their rent.

The DriveTest centre will open at 6080 McLeod Road on Oct. 18 and offer G2 and G road tests seven days a week from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., according to the Ministry of Transportation.

Niagara police have charged a 24-year-old man for toppling and partially smashing a bust of abolitionist Harriet Tubman in St. Catharines, Ont.

Hamilton will host the 2023 Grey Cup game, two years after staging the upcoming 2021 contest at Tim Hortons Field.

The city of Hamilton will face off with five homeless people in court Monday for the ability to stop people from living in tents on public property.

For years, Jason Billingsley and his wife have attended the Bills home opener at Highmark Stadium, flying from Vancouver to Hamilton and then driving on to Buffalo, N.Y. That September tradition was derailed for two NFL seasons by COVID-19 restrictions limiting non-essential travel across the Canadian-American border.

The Supreme Court of Canada has ordered a new trial for Peter Khill, a Hamilton-area man who was initially acquitted in the 2016 shooting death of Jon Styres. After the decision was released Thursday, the family of Styres, who was from Six Nations of the Grand River, spoke to CBC.

Melanie Francis married an American during the pandemic. With news the U.S. plans to reopen its land border to fully vaccinated Canadians next month, she's looking forward to making up for lost time.

Hamilton city councillors say Alectra Utilities has blindsided them after the massive utility says it's too busy to continue delivering local water bills.