CBC | Edmonton News

Father Rico Passero doesn't have a church full of people for mass these days, but he's managed to keep them together in spirit — through taping photos of them to the pews.

Thunderstorms and heavy downpours that could drop up to 25 mm of rain are forecast to roll through Hamilton, Burlington and the Niagara Region overnight.

Social media is keeping Hamilton connected as COVID-19 seems determined on shutting down the entire city.

Hamilton hospitals have already suspended elective surgeries and are screening everyone at their doors, but warn more "difficult measures" may be necessary.

Lab staff at Hamilton Health Sciences are reminding the public to maintain proper COVID-19 social distancing and stay home

Hamilton police are investigating after bones were found in an Ancaster field.

An additional 44 cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in Ontario on Thursday, bringing the provincial total to 258 including two deaths and five resolved cases.

The prime minister spoke about the struggles of Canadians abroad and the need to step up testing for COVID-19 on Thursday, a day after announcing an $82-billion COVID-19 response package that includes wage subsidies and a temporary boost to the child benefit program.

An 80-year-old resident of a Stoney Creek nursing home has tested positive for COVID-19.

Ontario nurses are now being told to self-isolate upon returning from travel, this after the government initially told them to come into work as long as they didn't feel sick.

The head of the city's emergency operations centre says he doubts this will all end in two weeks.

A Flamborough resident has been charged with stealing $1.3 million dollars worth of construction equipment.

A St. Catharines man is in serious condition, police say, after he was shot outside a residential building Tuesday.

Healthcare students across the region are supporting frontline professionals by providing babysitting, pet-care and errand services.

It has been one week since Hamilton saw its first COVID-19 case and daily life has transformed as the city, the province and the country have taken significant steps in an effort to avoid more infections.

The first lab-confirmed case of COVID-19 in Brant County is a woman in her 40s who travelled to Mexico and works at the Woodstock General Hospital. And officials in Halton say people on two WestJet flights are now considered exposed to the virus.

This follows the city's recent moves to reduce weekday bus service to a Saturday schedule as ridership has been cut in half as people avoid one another.

On a weekend when many Canadians were getting themselves ready to weather the COVID-19 pandemic, Burlington, Ont.'s Jennifer Teufel-Shatilla was figuring out how to help others do so.

The bank is working with public health to contact any customers who they believe could be at risk, according to a spokesperson.

The organization states that men can't have sex with other men for three months before being allowed to give blood because the cohort has a higher prevalence of HIV. But the organization needs more participants as donors cancel and practice social distancing.

A federal economic aid package worth $82 billion was unveiled on Wednesday to help Canadian workers and businesses weather the COVID-19 storm — while Canada and the U.S. will temporarily close their shared border to non-essential travel.

Parents and non parents are all looking for ways to fill the time as they practice COVID -19 mandated social distance. Here are some examples of how and some ideas to borrow.

Canada's top grocers say they are able to keep up with demand amid the COVID-19 outbreak, but some food producers are expressing concern over the impact the border restrictions could have on Canada's agricultural food production.

Hamilton bar and small business owners say they're left with unanswered questions following the provincial government declaring a state of emergency.

Geoff Dillon was using store-bought aloe, but he's run out, so now he's offering 65 per cent alcohol.

Police have charged a Hamilton mom after firefighters found her and her three-year-old with critical burn injuries last month.

As people look to combat the spread of COVID-19 by staying home, Hamilton's Arkells have been running "flatten the curve" music classes online so fans can practise social distancing and jam out at the same time.

Hamilton now has 15 cases of COVID-19 and one case which is linked to community spread.

On Tuesday, McMaster University requested all students living on campus to move out by Saturday as more coronavirus cases appear in Hamilton and across the country. The news has students and their families scrambling to comply.

Niagara Health is opening its first COVID-19 assessment centre today, and another is on the way.

The federal government is set to announce a massive aid package worth more than $25 billion to help Canadians and business get through the COVID-19 crisis, CBC News-Radio Canada has learned. The billions in spending will help Canadians make ends meet at a time when they could face lost wages due to widespread closures, and will help businesses bridge through the emergency period.

A 19-year-old man was arrested and faces several charges after police found a handgun and illicit drugs.

Toronto Mayor John Tory is providing an update on COVID-19, after Ontario Premier Doug Ford declared a state of emergency in a bid to combat the spread of COVID-19 and prevent the novel coronavirus from overwhelming the province's health-care system.

As of Monday evening, the school has few details on how it will proceed to move students out.

A street team will hit downtown Hamilton tomorrow to reach out to the homeless and intravenous drug users, a group it says is quickly being left behind in COVID-19 plans.

Hamilton residents travelling abroad find themselves with limited options of getting back.

Hamilton's transportation task force recommended Monday how the province should spend $1 billion in former light-rail transit (LRT) dollars, although it's not clear when the public will know what those recommendations are.

Monday also marks the first day with new assessment centres, no public school running, no libraries open, cancelled provincial offences court cases, reduced business hours and shuttered city services.

There are now 10 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Hamilton, three in Niagara and four in Halton. Brantford and Brant County have 25 suspected cases.

People have to be referred by their doctors or Hamilton public health

Police search for a male after a car robbery in the Strathcona neighbourhood.

Canada is barring entry to travellers who are not Canadian citizens, permanent residents or Americans, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced today — one of a set of extraordinary new measures being introduced to stop the spread of COVID-19.

There are 177 cases of COVID-19 in Ontario, according to the latest numbers from provincial health officials on Monday morning.

COVID-19 is spreading in Canadian communities among people with no known link to travel or previously infected individuals and experts say Canadians need to heed the warnings of public health officials to prevent a wider outbreak.

Niagara region police say they've cracked a long-running graffiti case.

All court appearances at 50 Main Street East are cancelled and will be rescheduled at a later date.

Route 16, an express GO Bus travelling between Toronto and Hamilton, will only have one trip on weekdays and weekends at 12:30 a.m. while the Lakeshore West GO train will no longer travel to Niagara Falls or St. Catharines.

Disability Justice Network of Ontario and the Hamilton Student Mobilization Network created the group on Friday which has roughly 1,700 likes as of Sunday afternoon.

St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton is clamping down on access to guests while nursing homes aren't allowing any at all. Hamilton's CF Lime Ridge Mall and Burlington's Mapleview Centre will run on a modified schedule for the next two weeks.

An update from the province noted the woman's infection was related to travel in Egypt and that she is self-isolating.