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Niagara police have charged a 47-year-old St Catharines man following a double-shooting on Friday that left one man dead.

The city's plan will focus on reducingthe amount of pollution collected in stormwater that runs off fromparking lots, roads and driveways into sewers, creeks and rivers, and then into Cootes Paradise and Hamilton Harbour.

As the fallout over fallen buildings in Gore Park continues, city officials will be turning their attention to other deteriorating properties.

Some teachers say kids are just plain ruder these days, with a sharp increase in interruptions and outbursts in the classroom. New research from Brock University backs up those observations.

In August, city officials learned 11 phone lines were recording calls without informing members of the public. It took three months for officials to share this.

The Ontario government is looking to expand presumptive coverage for kidney and colorectal cancers forfirefighters, whose occupation puts them at a higher risk for the diseases.

Ontario's premier is set to hold a 10 a.m. ET news conference as new details about the government's controversial bike lane bill emerge, and the province appears to have struck a deal with Ottawa that will provide children more access to school food programs.

Most young people turn to social media with their questions, but end up getting an onslaught of bite-sized, dubiously reliable content. Students and experts alike say more extensive learning is needed to boost critical thinking skills and help them be savvier on social media.

A transit bus designated as a moving, overnight warming centre is unlikely to be on Hamilton streets this winter, after councillors voted unanimously Wednesday to replace the program with a 25-person overnight drop-in centre and additional permanent shelter beds.

A Taylor Swift ticket scam in southern Ontario left potentially hundreds of Swifties with broken hearts and empty wallets,and a legal expert says that type of fraud won't be curbed until Ticketmaster's North American monopoly over big-ticket events is broken.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he wantsbilateral trade deals with the U.S. and Mexico "now" instead of in 2026, when the three countries review their North American trade agreement.

Blue Triton says it will close its water bottling plant in Aberfoyle, Ont., early next year. Local water advocates say the company's departure is a big step forward for water conservation in Wellington County.

Carbon emissions rose by one million tonnes in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area last year, according to a new report from a regional climate agency. "We're running out of time to hit our climate targets, especially for 2030," says

In an interview with CBC Hamilton,Lourenco Goncalves said U.S. steelmaker Cleveland-Cliffs, the new owner of Stelco, plans to produce more coke in Ontario while also reducing emissions. He isn't worried about Donald Trump's tariff plan, he added.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Thursday a suite of new measures meant to alleviatesome of the affordability pressures people have been experiencing in the post-COVID era - including a two-month GST holiday on some goods and services.

Some 30 Canadian MPs, including NDP and Green leaders Jagmeet Singh and Elizabeth May, as well as four members of the governing Liberal caucus, have joined forces with counterparts in New Zealand and Australia in support of recognizing a Palestinian state.

Ontario will soon introduce legislation that aims to protect newcomers against fraud and exploitation as they navigate the immigration system, the province announced on Wednesday.

Two proposed class actions filed this week in U.S. District Court claimthat four leading potato companies - including two Canadian ones - have privately swapped intel to inflate the price of frozen potato goods like fries, hash browns and tater tots over the last several years.

The lawyer representing the families of Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy - tortured and killed in two of the most heinous crimesin modern Canadian history - says the justice system has let them down again by denying the victims' mothers the opportunity to deliver their victim statements in person at Paul Bernardo's upcoming parole hearing.

A 40-year-old woman is facing charges in the death of a toddler who was found without vital signs in a Niagara Falls, Ont., home last year.

Inflation may be cooling, but it still costs more to live in Ontario than it did last year, the Ontario Living Wage Network says.

An Ontario French public school board says a cyberattack that disrupted phone and internet services also resulted in a breach of personal information affecting all its students as well as current and former staff.

Ontario has tabled a bill that aims to shutter 10 supervised consumption sites the government deems are too close to schools and daycares.

Halton police say 40 people have reported paying a third party a total of $70K for non-existent tickets, while an Ontario mom says she's heard from nearly 160 people who bought what turned out to be fake tickets.

In February 2023, building inspectors flagged unsafe conditions at the now-collapsed buildings beside Hamilton's Gore Park and issued orders for the property owner to repair the deteriorating roof - a job that was never done.

For decades,coroner's inquests in Ontario took place in person. That all changed with COVID-19, and while some feel it's been a big advantage to go virtual - as will be the case when the Abdirahman Abdi inquest begins today - not everyone agrees.

Paul and Kai Salvini are volunteer pilots with the Canadian Wings of Rescue and are using their private plane to rescue a variety of animals across Canada.

Dr. Sarah Giles wants you to know she's sorry that patients are suffering because of staffing shortages in health care. But she's learned that working longer hours won't solve the problem. In fact, it could have led her to leave the profession altogether.

This past April, 47-year-old Colin Beaudry of Ottawa finally got his very own apartment after living on the street for a year. It's that stability that allowed him to get clean, and now he's eager to start giving back to the community that supported him.

Constructing buildings takes a lot of wood, metal, concrete and other valuable resources. Demolishing them generates a huge amount of waste and carbon emissions. But there's another way - what if they were "deconstructed" so the materials could be reused and recycled?

Less than a week after anti-immigrant demonstrators stood in the heart of downtown Hamilton, community leaders called for solidarity and denounced what they say is a rise in hate against newcomers.

A close friend of the man who was shot and killed by Hamilton police over the weekend says he was there for Erixon Kabera's last moments in hospital, and is now joining calls for a thorough investigation into his death.

Canada Post has shut down across the country because tens of thousands of postal workers are on strike over wages, working conditions and other issues.The closure will affect millions of Canadians and businesses nationwide before the busy holiday season. Here's what you need to know.

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) says approximately 55,000 workers in its urban and rural bargaining units are on strike. Both the union and Canada Post say progress in negotiations has been slow, leaving businesses and consumers to fret as busy shopping and holiday periods loom.

The former Tivoli Theatre is in "terrible condition" and will be expensive to restore, but that doesn't mean it should be demolished, says a panel of heritage experts.

Make The Season Kind is a month of giving in support of Hamilton Food Share. Follow CBC Hamilton's coverage about food security, affordability and making the season a kinder one, starting in early December.

Hamilton council has defeated a motion that would have seen it join others in Ontario asking the province to override sections of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in order to ban encampments in parks and public spaces.

OPP previously said they were called to a Simcoe farm in September, 2021, after an incident involving a worker. Charges have been dropped three years after the farm worker died on the job.

The owner of two vacant buildings that collapsed onto a downtown Hamilton park Monday said previously it had put into place all safety measures recommended by engineers.

A superintendent with the Halton Catholic District School Board travelled to conferences around the world to attract international students, but the board won't say how many were directly recruited.

The coroner's inquest into the deaths of five men at the Niagara Detention Centre ended with the jury making 66 recommendations aimed at preventing future deaths. Changes include staffing nurses all day and more closely monitoring patients who have overdosed.

Hamilton's Santa Claus Parade will take place on the mountain this year, starting on Upper Sherman Road at 2 p.m. on Saturday.

The family of the man shot and killed by Hamilton police on Saturday has identified him asErixon Kabera- a father of three,known for his kindness and dedication to Hamilton's Rwandancommunity.

The union representing Canada Post workers said it will be in a legal strike position on Friday, exactly one year after talks on a new contract began. But the union is holding back on deciding whether a job action will take place immediately.

Hundreds of observers marked Remembrance Day and the 80th anniversary of D-Day during a downtown ceremony at the Gore Park cenotaph on Monday, recalling efforts by local soldiers who gave their lives on the battlefield.

Two buildings collapsed on Hamilton's Gore Park early Monday morning after being boarded up for over a decade. The fire department says no one was injured and the city has issued an emergency demolition order.

While people gather around the Gore Park Cenotaph in his hometown of Hamilton, Tyrell will be one of nine Canadians serving as a peacekeeper in the United Nations mission in South Sudan.

A building that was once among the grandest theatres in Hamilton has deteriorated beyond repair, is full of hazardous substances and must be demolished, says the developerwho owns it.

A 43-year-old man is dead after being shot by policeat a west-end Hamilton apartment building Saturday, in an incidentwhich also sent an officer to hospital,Ontario's police watchdog says.

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