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Sixties Scoop survivorTroy Abromaitissays Canada Day represents celebrating a country that, for many Indigenous peoples, facilitated loss and separation from their families. He created Indigenous Survivors Day to honour children who were taken from their families and lands.

Superior Court Justice Donald Bisson limited the class action to Quebec residents because the case hinges on that province's consumer protection laws. In 2024, hundreds of thousands of customers were told via email they had won a boat, Montreal-based firm LPC Avocats says, in what Tim Hortons has called a technical error.

Hamilton police say they've called off their ground search for John Edwards - a Dundas man who has been missing for more than two weeks.

Canada claimed bronzeat the FIBA women's 3x3 basketball World Cup with a 21-9 win over Poland on Sunday inUlaanbaatar, Mongolia.

After a late September fire that caused millions of dollars in damage, the Wentworth Sports Complex in Hamilton's west end is reopening - but will no longer be an arena.

Matt (Ginjaninja) Campbell became the first player to retain the bet365 North American Darts Championship title when he defeated (Gentleman) Jim Long 6-3 in an all-Canadian final Saturday in New York.

The beauty of the Great Lakes comes with real danger,especially for inexperienced swimmers or those unfamiliar with lake conditions. Water safety expert Scott Ruddle joined London Morning to share his tips for staying safe.

The Toronto Rock are returning to Hamilton for the 2025-26 season, playing at the newly renamed TD Coliseum. The arena, formerly FirstOntario Centre, is undergoing major renovations and will reopen later this year as a key sports and entertainment venue in the region.

Most City of Hamilton services will be closed on Tuesday, July 1 for Canada Day, including administrative offices, libraries, recreation centres, and waste collection.

To meet the federal government's promise to build, baby, build," the country is going to need a whole lot more skilled trades workers.But a shortage of shop class teachers in Canadian high schools might make them hard to find.

The Islanders picked defenceman Matthew Schaefer of the OHL's Erie Otters with the first overall pick in the draft.

The last confirmed sighting was at a gas station in Flamborough, where Edwards was seen walking south. Police have since set up a command post at Millgrove United Church and continue to deploy drones, canine units, and officers on foot across rugged terrain.

Canadian country singer Josh Ross is apologizing after he drew jeers on social media for carrying a U.S. flag onstage at a music festival and calling the country the "best" in the world.

Hamilton police say they have arrested two former long-term care home employees that deposited cheques from elderly residents into their own bank accounts.

Black and Middle Eastern people in Hamilton continue to be overrepresented in use-of-force incidents recorded by the city's police service. "Every year, the results are the same, but we never get any changes," says a McMaster University researcher whose team examines such data from across Ontario.

A group of parents and teachers gathered in the rain outside the Ontario legislature on Thursday to protest a bill that could bring back police officers to public schools.

The lawyer for Jeffery Turnbull, a Hamilton police constable accused of sexually assaulting a colleague in 2022, used the trial's closing arguments to portray the woman as an unreliable witness whose testimony misaligns with the known facts.

Planning committee consideredapplications Wednesday from two landowner groups to expand the city's official urban area to make way for tens of thousands of homes.

Protect the Tract, a Haudenosaunee-led environmental initiative, organized a Solidarity Teach-in on National Indigenous Peoples Day on Six Nations of the Grand River, near Hamilton, Ont., in response to Ontario'sBill5 and Canada's Bill C-5.

Summer is off to a blazing start, with lots to do in Hamilton.

The awards celebrate Canada's best cookbooks and food-related stories of the year.

TD Coliseum is scheduled to open later this year after extensive renovations by Oak View Group.

Protesters marched from City Hall to the downtown police station in Hamilton on June 19. Family members spoke to the crowd after the officers who killed Erixon Kabera in November were cleared by the Special Investigations Unit.

It can be costly or difficult at the traditional banks to send money around the world, with some pointing to a lack of competition in Canada's banking sector. But newer competitors are looking to simplify the process - if customers make the effort to access options outside of a traditional wire transfer.

Among the U.S. goods Canada has imposed a 25 per cent tariff on are classic cars. Including sales tax, Cameron Gillespie estimates he willbe paying $30,000 in extra duties to Ottawa if he wants to import a 1969 Mustang.

Two contractorsinvestigating a small sink hole on James Street said they drink about 20 water bottles each a day to combat the "brutal" temperatures."It takes a toll on everything we're doing today," says one.

The 44-year-old woman was arrested on June19 and charged with fraud. She assisted people with developmental disabilities.

People in Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's hometown of Hamilton are basking in his success after the 26-year-old led the Oklahoma City Thunder to their first NBA title Sunday night while also becoming the NBA Finals MVP.

Speedboat, overdid, cameos: Those three words were used by special navigation technology to help Waterloo regional police find a woman who was lost at night on a Cambridge, Ont., trail. Now, police are encouraging people to have the app easily accessible.

As the first major heat event of the season hits while class is in session for many students, it's drawing renewed attention to the cooling challenges faced by schools today when temperatures bubble up into alarming territory.

Hamilton police have charged the live-in partner of Shalini Singh with second-degree murder, shortly after remains found in a landfill last month were identified as the 40-year-old woman's through DNA testing.

Much of Ontario, including Hamilton, the Niagara Region, Burlington and Brant County, are under a heat warning.

The annual Supercrawl arts festival in Hamilton will feature musical headliners Basia Bulat, Born Ruffians, Donovan Woods, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Steve Strongman and TOBi.

Unseasonably cold conditions in May stunted the growth of many Canadian farmers' strawberry and leafy green crops, raising concerns about food supply and climate resilience. "What we are harvesting right now is maybe one per cent of what we were harvesting last year," says a strawberry grower in New Hamburg, Ont.

The Special Investigations Unit's SIU decision not to charge two Hamilton police officers who killed Erixon Kabera in November was not surprising to some experts, but they still raised concerns over the police response and limits of the SIU's mandate.

Forty years after a bomb on Air India Flight 182 killed all 329 people on board, a professor at McMaster University in Hamilton has created an archive with artifacts and information about those whose lives were lost.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander finished off his MVP season with 29 points and 12 assists, and the Oklahoma City Thunder won the NBA championship, pulling away in the second half to beat the visiting Indiana Pacers 103-91 on Sunday night.

Hamilton's fire department is expressing its condolences after reportedly finding a person dead in a burning east-end home Sunday.

Hamilton police say they're investigating after a car crashed into a stone wall atop the city's Claremont Access.

Hamilton is one of many Ontario municipalities under a heat warning as temperatures are forecast to feel hotter than 40 with humidity throughout the area between Sunday and Tuesday.

In the past two years, at least five rideshare drivers have been arrested in connection with a sexual assault or convicted in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, police data shows. But despite having done so for the U.S.,companies such as Uber and Lyft have not released data on alleged sexual assaults in Canada.

The budding comic was last heard from onDec. 4, 2024. Now her friends are ready to celebrate and remember the "fantastic" person she was.

Shayde Sandy is a Haudenosaunee artist from Six Nations of the Grand River. One of her pieces is now travelling through southern Ontario as a bus wrap, part of Metrolinx's commemoration of National Indigenous History Month.

Marineland, the still-shuttered Niagara Falls aquarium and theme park where 18 beluga whales have died since 2019, has put its rides up for sale. The park has not indicated plans to open this summer.

For these Indigenous artists, music is a way to be visible, speak out, promote language and identity and encourage the next generation.

The Woodland Cultural Centre in Brantford, Ont., will also be hosting Canada's longest-running contemporary Indigenous juried art show opening for National Indigenous Peoples Day this weekend.

Obi Toppin scored 20 points, Andrew Nembhard added 17 and the resilient Indiana Pacers sent the NBA Finals to a winner-take-all Game 7 by rolling past the Oklahoma City Thunder 108-91 on Thursday night. Pascal Siakam had 16 points and 13 rebounds.

With a win tonight, the NBA MVP and scoring champion can capture his first title and do something that only Michael Jordan and two other players have ever done. So why isn't SGA a bigger deal?

In recent months, a liquids processing business on a residential street near the Cotton Factory has begun operating as a recycling transfer station, without providing notice or consulting the local community.The operator said the site is fully approved.

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Thursday new measures to help stabilize Canada's steel and aluminum sectors that have been hard hit by President Donald Trump's tariffs - with exports down and job losses up.