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Experts say cognitive health is about much more than forgetting someone's name or where you put your phone.But studies have shown there are lots of things we can do to help our brains stay sharp - from exercise to sleep to social connections.

Decades after being punished in a residential school for speaking his own language, Sol Mamakwa will hold the powerful to account at Ontario's legislature in the very same language past governments tried to bury.

Environment Canada says a fog advisory issued for Hamilton, Brantford, Burlington, Haldimand County, Norfolk County and Niagara Region will end Sunday morning.

Sydney Brouillard-Coyle of Brantford, Ont., talks about why ney decided to write A Pocket Guide to Pronouns.

Burlington's mayor and councillors passed a sharply worded motion this past week requesting the province deny Nelson Aggregates' proposal to add nearly 80 hectares to its Mount Nemo quarry's extraction area.

Ontario Provincial Police are investigating after a driver died ina single-vehicle crash inHaldimand County Friday.

One man has died and three others were taken to hospital in serious condition after a flying wheel hit a coach bus on the QEW in St. CatharinesFriday, Ontario Provincial Police say.

In the age of the smartphone, the city's photography stores are seeing an analogue bounceback. One shop now develops around 500 film rolls a week.

McMaster University says the student-led, pro-Palestinian encampment that has grown on campus over the past two-and-a-half weeks is ending after the school and protesters agreed on terms.

The touring retrospective Shelley Niro: 500 Year Itch surveys the 40-year career of a truly multidisciplinary talent, with stops in New York, Hamilton, Ottawa and Vancouver.

A Hamilton jury has found Oliver Karafa and Lucy Li guilty of first-degree murder of Tyler Pratt and attempted murder of his partner Jordyn Romano in 2021.

To meet growing demand for bike travel on GO Transit, Metrolinx is adding bike coaches on the Niagara Falls-Toronto line that can store up to 22 bikes each.

Ontario is introducing sales of beer, wine and ready-made cocktails into corner stores and additional supermarkets 16 months ahead of schedule, a movethat will see the province pay up to $225 million to The Beer Store.

Camila Colin, 17, attended the groundbreaking ceremony for Keaton's House: Paul Paletta Children's Hospice in Dundas, Ont., on Thursday. She said she was happy to know that kids facing death will be able to go somewhere more comfortable than a hospital.

Several Hamilton roads will be closed or affected by someevents this weekend and next week.

Accidental damage to a service line this week has left 21 households in Ancaster unable to drink their own water for two days, according to the city.

Taylor Korolenchuk is eager to see the city's maximum temperature bylaw move forward. A draft of what the new law could look like is expected before council later in June.Meanwhile, councillors deferred a proposal that would pay for air conditioners for low-income residents.

Forge FC secured a historic 2-1 victory over CF Montreal at Stade Saputo on Wednesday evening to book their ticket to the Canadian Championship semifinal.

Lucy Li was 'smack in the middle' of an elaborate plan with her husband Oliver Karafa to shoot and kill their friends outside a Stoney Creek warehouse, the Crown attorney said during closing arguments of their murder trial.

Canadian basketball star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander of the Oklahoma City Thunder is a unanimous selection to the All-NBA first team.

The 13-member jury heard closing arguments Tuesday duringthe seventh and final week of the trial of Toronto residentsKarafa and Li.The couple were charged after Karafa shot Tyler Pratt, 39, and Jordyn Romano, his 26-year-old pregnant girlfriend, in 2021 in Stoney Creek.

Brantford police say a man wearing a balaclava-like face covering sexually assaulted a teenager on a trail there last week, and they're warning the public while seeking surveillance footage from the area.

Following hot, muggy weatherin Hamilton and surrounding areas earlier on Wednesday, Environment Canadaissued a severe thunderstorm watch for the region. Storms could develop during the evening, the service said.

Ontario Nurses' Association president says the increase "significantly reduces the disparity between" private- and public-sector nurses, bringing them closer to equal wages.

Listen to fresh new tracks from Luna Li, Super Duty Tough Work, Ouri, Colin Stetson, and more.

Hamilton's Westdale Secondary School lost its breakfast program as part of an effort to save money and extend the life of other struggling programs. Operators in Hamilton and Niagara say that's just one instance of a cutback due to increasing demand, rising food costs and dwindling donations.

Endangered shagreen snails have been found by a biologist in the Snake Woods Nature Preserve near Woodstock, Ont. says the Upper Thames River Conservation Authority.

Some economistssay recent government subsidies - which have ranged from $1.7 million for a Brampton, Ont., pasta plant, to billions in subsidies for EV plants - make little economic sense.

New home construction in Ontario has slowed to a pace not seen since 2018,putting Premier Doug Ford's government further off track fromhitting its housing targets.

Last year's record-breaking wildfire season forced Canadians to become familiar with the scale of air pollution as hazardous smoke drifted across the country, and now Environment Canada says it is following in B.C.'s footsteps to improve how it measures and reports air quality risks to the public.

Fiona Hunter, a medical and veterinary entomology professor at Brock University who studies all flies that bite, shares information about mosquitoes.

The Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway will be closed this upcoming weekend for maintenance work, according to the city.

Researchers at the University of Guelph in southern Ontario say the way pesticides are labelled "bee safe" needs to be re-evaluated because what may be fine for a honeybee may not be safe for wild bees that build their nests in the ground.

Kleo Mitsis writes that after a lifetime of saving frugally, he jumped on a chance to buy power tools from a stranger on the internet. After the seller backed out and he found himself filing a police report, he has advice for others on how not to fall for a scam.

Environment Canada has put Hamilton and surrounding areas under a fog advisory on Sunday, but the agency saidit should clear up Sunday morning - only to return again overnight.

As another wildfire season gets underway in Canada, researchers with the Northern Tornadoes Project at Western University in London, Ont., are noticing a curious relationship between wildfires and tornadoes.

"We knew this city had a vibrant queer community and it seemed to be missing that binding agent that brought folks from different walks together. Sports have a unique ability to do that," said a Steel City Inclusive Softball Association co-founder.

Federal officials say they've made what they describe as a major seizure of baby eels after finding 109 kilograms of elvers at Toronto's Pearson International Airport earlier this week.

Capleton Tomlinson was injured while working at a farm in 2015. The injury forced the migrant worker to return home to Jamaica and left him unable to work. He hopes he is one of the recipients the WSIB will reimburse as part of the changes to how it compensates injured migrant workers.

An Ontario child's death from measles this year offered a grim reminder: When vaccination rates drop and this virus rears its head, the youngest among us bear the brunt.

Hamilton health and social service organizations are coming together to better support Black newcomers and refugees.

The forecast calls for three days of sun, with a high of 26 C in Hamilton this long weekend. If you're looking to get out and about, here's some of what's happening in the city.

When Tim Hortons rang in the new year, it marked the occasion with a nod to its humble roots, bringing back a quartet of doughnuts, including some from its earliest days.

McMaster University says its chief financial officer would meet with student groups to discuss the school's investment strategy and consider ways to make things more transparent, but only after the pro-Palestinian encampment on campus ends - an offer the student groups leading the encampments quickly rejected.

In a report published Thursday, Public Health Ontario said the child was not vaccinated against the highly infectious respiratory virus. It's the first recorded death from measles in the province since 1989, as far back as Ontario's data goes.

Canadian fans are tallying up the cost of a flight, hotel and ticket, and are finding that travelling to Europe to see Taylor Swift in concert may be better bang for their buck than seeing the show on Canadian soil.

Members of a Hamilton family are looking for accountability - and their money back - after their vehicle was registered as scrapped, resulting in a police stop, the temporary loss of their vehicle and nearly $5,000 in fees.

The City of Hamilton will look at the possibility of new taxes to help it deal witha serious cash crunch expected in the coming years, alongside a worsening homelessness crisis.

Here's a look at what city services and shopping options are available on the weekend and the holiday Monday.

Apreliminary report of the crash from the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, obtained by CBC Hamilton, details how the crash unfolded.