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Ontario has told child-care centres that it will implement a new way of funding the national $10-a-day program - something operators have urgently called for - starting in 2025.

A CBC News survey of 52 universities across Canada reveals that most do not track suicides among their students, internally or publicly. According to students and experts, not having that information only contributes to the stigma around suicide and mental health on campuses.

The trio of peregrine falcon chicks nesting in downtown Hamilton are all female, and as of Wednesday, they have names: Blakeley, Westdale and Stinson.

The jury in the inquest into Attila Csanyi's death in 2020 recommends the Ontario government and City of Hamilton conduct a comprehensive review" of residential care facilities in the city.The coroner's inquest wrapped Tuesday with 21 recommendations aimed at preventing similar deaths.

Ontario will revamp how it compensates injured migrant workers. The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board says the changes affect how the board pays a worker who cannot return to a job due to injury, but is able to work elsewhere.

Ontario plans to bring in legislation that would impose tough new penalties on impaired drivers, the provincial government says.

Having more female surgeons and anesthesiologists in operating rooms could mean better post-op outcomes for patients, according to a new Canadian study.

A small city nestled in southern Ontario's Niagara Region will be home to a new $1.6-billion electric vehicle battery plant. Politicians at the announcement on Tuesday didn't say how many jobs the plant will produce or who will getthem.

The library is currently rebuilding its network after the city experienced a cybersecurity attack in February. There's no clear timeline for when popular services like online holds and the use of the public computers will be restored.

Alice Munro, the Canadian author who won the Nobel Prize in Literature and was acclaimed for blending ordinary lives with extraordinary themes, has died at the age of 92.

Frito Lay Canada is recalling two of its most popular snacks due to a possible risk of salmonella contamination.

Premier Doug Ford's government will try to combat record rates ofauto theft in Ontario by slapping lengthy driver's licence suspensions on people convicted of the crime.

The five-member jury who has spent two weeks listening about the life and death of Attila Csanyi - the 28-year-old man who died of an overdose on the rooftop of Jackson Square in 2020 - will now have to decide what recommendations, if any, should be made to prevent future deaths.

Hamilton police data obtained by the CBC shows how many stunt drivers - anyone going 40 km/h over the posted speed limit - were caught last year and shows where drivers were caught the most.

In an effort to find outwho she was and how she died, police have released an image that might help identifya child whose remains were discovered in the Grand River in Dunnville, Ont., southeast of Hamilton, almost two years ago.

Pro-Palestinian student protestors say they hope talks with McMaster University will continue moving in the right direction after a week of camping out on campus.

The next Ontario community to share in Honda Canada's $15-billion investment to establish a Canadian electric vehicle supply chain will be Port Colborne, in Niagara Region. Company executives are expected to join Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ontario Premier Doug Ford at the official announcement on Tuesday.

Ontario will need 33,200 more nurses and 50,853 more personal support workers by 2032, the government projects - figures it tried to keep secret but were obtained by The Canadian Press.

If you have boxwood plants in your yard or neighbourhood, there's an invasive pest you need to be on the lookout for this spring.

An Ottawa dentist who signed up to provide care under the new public dental insurance program says he hasn't seen mouths in such bad shape since he did mission work overseas. The number of oral health care providers in the plan is growing, despite some dentists's concerns about how the program is being run.

Niagara Emergency Medical Services began including nurses to handle 911 calls in 2019, one of only three in Canada to do so, says Marty Mako, commander of mobile integrated health care with Niagara EMS.

Indigenous women are reclaiming parenting traditions in many ways, from programs to social media.

Nearly 200 Palestinians have managed to escape Gaza and obtain approval to travel to Canada - but they had to pay thousands of dollars to smuggle themselves into Egypt. That avenue is now closed off, due to the military campaign Israel launched in Rafah this week.

As the little library community marks a week dedicated to celebrating their work, several caretakers of independent, free outdoor libraries in Hamilton say their book boxes have brought them closer to their neighbours and encouraged a love of reading.

Nearly a year after east Mountainresidents began complaining about the "stink"wafting from a nearbyGFL landfill, the province has ordered the waste management companyto fix the problem - within 2 years.

The Ontario government has appealed a judge's decision to strike down as unconstitutional parts of an agriculture law that made it illegal to get a job on a farm under false pretences to expose conditions inside.

In the final months of Attila Csanyi's life, staff at his lodging home had called police at least three times to report him for breaking the rules in an effort to get him kicked out, a Hamilton police officer said at the inquest into Csanyi's 2020 death.

A geomagnetic storm brought colourful auroras overnight in southern Canada, the northern United States and parts of Europe. It could also cause some disruptions to communications over the weekend.

The encampments at Canadian schools follow months of protest marches, petitions, sit-ins and hunger strikes by pro-Palestinian activists. Some say the movement is stronger than it has ever been.

Jim and Sue Waddington, now in their 80s, have whitewater canoed, portaged and trekked around the country to track down the places that inspired the famous artists. A new documentary, narrated by their granddaughter, explores some of those trips.

At least 21 people died while experiencing homelessness in Hamilton between June and November 2023, newly released data from the Hamilton Homeless Mortality Data Project shows. And since the group started collecting data in 2021, at least 91 people in the city have died while unhoused, it said.

Niagara Region is seeing a rise in the number of human trafficking charges laid, according to local police data obtained by CBC Hamilton.

Bo Levi Mitchell created a stir Wednesday at the Hamilton Tiger-Cats' rookie camp.

The Hamilton Tiger-Cats will add Canadian Football Hall of Famers Mike Walker and Bernie Custis to the team's Wall of Honour this season.

On its sixth day, the inquest into Attila Csanyi's death heard about the City of Hamilton's role in pairing people with residential care facilities (RCFs) and overseeing those homes. Csanyi lived in an RCF in downtown Hamilton from about November 2019 to March 2020 when he was evicted.

Canada's recruitment of international students has tilted strongly toward filling spots in business programs, while doing little to meet the demand for workers in health care and the skilled trades, according to a CBC News analysis of federal data.

Nikola Jokic, the Denver Nuggets star from Serbia, was announced Wednesday night as the NBA's Most Valuable Player, topping Canada's Shai Gilgeous-Alexander of the Oklahoma City Thunder in the voting.

About 60 drivers, mechanics and technicians with Waste Management in the Hamilton-Niagara area are on strike, protesting forced overtime and what they say is alack of work-life balance.

Testimony on Tuesday from Attila Csanyi's social worker contradicted what a residential care facility staff member said last week during an inquest into Csanyi's death.

Car-free efforts in major Canadian cities are part of a global push that's reconsidering city design to reduce congestion and pollution.

Canadians routinely wait hours on the phone and in person when dealing with Passport Canada, and it's left some people fed up with the quality of customer service.

Two men found sleeping in a vehicle in St. Catharines, Ont., have been arrested as part of an investigation into thefts from LCBO stores across the province. Police say more than $300,000 worth of product was taken.

Artworks by Kapwani Kiwanga, Joyce Joumaa and Stephanie Comilang trace the trade routes and migration patterns that have shaped the present.

The Tuesday game marked the fourth year in a row that Forge and Montreal have clashed in Cup play.

Data obtained by CBC Hamilton shows 90,444 different licence plates account for the 143,134 tickets, which means there were some repeat offenders - including one licence plate that received 103 parking tickets.

The high-profile case of aBrantford, Ont., woman who was rearrested while servinghouse arrest for faking pregnancies and duping doulasmay be an extreme and "unique" case, but scams targeting workers in the field are more common than people may think, say doula organizations.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stopped in Hamilton on Friday to talk about housing measures announced in the recent federal budget, thenweighed in on how his government has supported the city's efforts to deal with the affordable housing crisis and the growing campus protests across Canada in response to the Israel-Hamas war.

Michael LaCombe, 54, will instead serve 12 months of house arrest followed by 12 months of probation. He resigned from the Hamilton Police Service after a judge found him guilty of two counts of sexual assault against a woman whom he was mentoring to become a police officer.

A group of students have set up tents and banners on campus in Hamilton, joining the handful of other pro-Palestinian protestscalling for schools to cut ties with Israelas its warin Gaza continues.