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Ontario is calling on the federal government to make severalbail-related changes to the Criminal Code, including eliminating bail for certain offences and implementing a "three strike rule" for repeat offenders.

A major amusement park is part of Ontario's grand vision to turn the Niagara region into Las Vegas north, but Marineland may not fit the bill, the provincial tourism minister says.

Cavalry FC has advanced to the Canadian Premier League championship game on Nov. 9, while the Hamilton Forge will play Atletico Ottawa in the semifinal.

One-third of jobs in Canadian agriculture - about 100,000 - are expected to be automated in the next decade, according to new research from The Conference Board of Canada. Technology is now being used for everything from killing weeds and tracking crop heath to self-driving grain carts and tillage equipment.

Reports about the death of Canada's immigration consensus arguably have been exaggerated. But there are warning signs - both for the public's attitude toward immigration and for the Trudeau government's legacy.

McMaster University's board of governors heard a presentation advocating that the Hamilton institution divest from companies with ties to Israel. Although the board didn't take any immediate action, chair Jane Allen said they learned from the presenters, who spoke on behalf of the McMaster chapter of Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights.

Police have arrested four people, including an "outlaw" motorcycle gang member, in connection with a July robbery in Hamilton.

The Ontario governmentwill effectively bar international students from attending medical schools beginning in the fall of 2026, while alsocovering tuition for more than 1,000 students who commit to becoming a family doctor in the province.

Niagara police have laid new charges against a 49-year-old man from Welland, Ont., who was arrested earlier in October on child porn charges.

Hamilton city council has voted to ban encampments from seven green spaces in Ward 3, just east of downtown, once 123 new shelter beds open up in the area in the coming weeks.

Several major retailers are offering paper bags to customers after Ottawa banned single-use plastic ones. But environmentalists say paper bags are not a sustainable solution as they're also single-use and leave a sizable carbon footprint.

Natalia Benoit, a trustee who was barred from meetings for six months after making comments about the Pride flag, is once again trying to have it banned from schools within the Niagara Catholic District School Board in Ontario.

City crews will be closing the Lincoln Alexander Parkway's on- and off-ramps at Upper Wentworth Street for maintenance work between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m., starting Oct. 28. The city has reported several coming road closures between now and the end of the year.

For Hamilton Forge FC, a return to the Canadian Premier League title match would represent the latest reassurance that the program - built, fostered and tended to by head coach and sporting director Bobby Smyrniotis - works.

Councillors in the lower city are calling for more preventative measures amid police reporting a record-breaking number of shootings in 2024.

Launching on Nov. 7 at the W.J. McCallion Planetarium, Onekwa:tara - The Seven Dancers of the Pleiades will be the second Indigenous astronomy program available at McMaster University. Its co-creator Thomas Deer has been working to share Indigenous star knowledge for decades.

Twenty-two Canadians were set to lace it up on opening-day rosters, second only to the United States, as the 2024-25 NBA season tipped off Tuesday.

The coroner's inquest into the deaths of five Niagara Detention Centre inmates between 2018 and 2022 opened with a lawyer reading heart-wrenching stories from some of the families and the medical officer of health testifying on the high opioid death rate in the region. All five men died of drug toxicity within 10 days of being transferred to the detention centre in Thorold, Ont.

The landlord of an alleged serial killer, who is charged with murder in the October deaths of three people in southern Ontario, says she was a quiet, responsible tenant whom he never suspected was capable of violence. Sabrina Kauldhar, 30, was arrested earlier this month and charged with one count of first-degree murder and two counts of second-degree murder.

The new mural to celebrate the life of actor and comedian Phil Hartman pays tribute to his extraordinary career on Saturday Night Live, News Radio, The Simpsons and more.

Ontario NDP leader Marit Stiles said her party is planning to run a candidate in Sarah Jama's Hamilton-Centre riding, but, as far as I know - and I'm the leader - it won't be her."

Thousands of international students expected to study at three Ontario colleges are missing the fall semester, after Ottawa announced it would further tighten Canada's study permit system.

It's been a season to remember and forget for Bo Levi Mitchell and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

Ten years after Cpl. Nathan Cirillo was gunned down while standing sentry at the National War Memorial, some of the people who rushed to his aid reflect on the tragedy and how it changed them.

A Hamilton scrap metal company has been fined $85,000 for violations of Ontario's Environmental Protection Act, the second time the company has been penalized by the province in 12 months.

AFC Toronto announced Monday that Jade Kovacevic, aformer Canadian youth international and League1 Ontario's all-time leading scorer, is their historic first signing.

The minister of mental health and addictions says the federal government will ban mostvape flavours across Canada soon - more than three years after Ottawa first promised to bring in the regulations.

Hamilton expat Amanda Hinkle says her high school teacher in Minnesota, Tim Walz, kept the class engaged and volunteered after school to help build theatre sets. Now, she's supporting his bid to become U.S. vice-president.

Leaders of Ontario's largest cities are asking for the province to urgently review its health care consent and trespass to property acts, along with more support totake on the mental health, addictions and homelessness crises gripping their communities.

What is being billed as the first Indigenous-led, on-territory hospice in Canada will bring culturally appropriate end-of-life care closer to home for those in Six Nations of the Grand River, near Hamilton.

York Regional Police have charged five teenage boys in connection with an alleged sexual assault that took place not far from Canada's Wonderland in Vaughan.

A 49-year-old man from Welland who coached minor hockey has been arrested on child porn charges, Niagara police say.

There'll be no playoff games this year for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats but head coach Scott Milanovich feels the club can get a head start on changing that narrative in 2025.

The Hamilton Police Services Board is asking the public's feedback on their new body-camera policy.

The chair of the Brant Haldimand Norfolk Catholic District School Board (BHNCDSB) apologized Thursday for a trip he and three other trustees took to Italy this summer to buy religious art for two new schools. A day earlier, the trip earned a rebuke from the education minister.

A former Canadian Olympic snowboarder and 15 others are facing criminal charges for allegedly running a drug-trafficking ring that shipped hundreds of kilograms of cocaine to Canada and used violence -including murder -to achieve its goals, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday. The group is connected to homicides in Ontario, the DOJ said.

Hamilton Liberal MP Filomena Tassi has announced she won't be running for re-election, joining several federal government ministers who aren't planning to run again in the next election.

Hamilton city councillors are looking to ban encampments from seven locations in Ward 3 - including J.C. Beemer Park, the base of the Claremont Access and along the Escarpment Rail Trail - once a slew of new shelter spaces set for the area become available.

Ontario's police oversight body is investigating after Brantford police fired an anti-riot weapon at a 51-year-old man on Tuesday.

Four more federal cabinet ministers will not run for re-election, Radio-Canada has learned, meaning Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will reshuffle his cabinet at a time when his leadership is increasingly fragile.

Ashima Sharma, a student in the honours philosophy program at Hamilton's McMaster University, decided to go above and beyond for just a one per cent bonus on an assignment. She found a way to catch the attention of Iceland's former prime minister, Katrin Jakobsdottir.

Charges of failing to comply with Ontario pandemic orders in 2021 have been dropped against a former West Lincoln mayor after Dave Bylsma's lawyer said he had donated to a local women's shelter.

A waste disposal company in Norfolk County, Ont., pleaded guilty to contravening the Occupational Health and Safety Act and agreed to pay a fine in relation to a worker's death in April 2022. In a victim impact statement, his daughter said, "I will spend the rest of my life grieving the loss of my father."

Natalia Benoit, a trustee who was barred from meetings for six months after making comments about the Pride flag, is once again trying to have it banned from schools with the Niagara Catholic District School Board in Ontario.

The Ontario government says it will introduce legislation that would require municipalities to get provincial approval before building bike lanes that reduce lanes of vehicle traffic.

Ontario taxpayers have forked over $4.3 million in legal fees after the province lost two court cases defending a wage-cap law that was struck down as unconstitutional, The Canadian Press has learned.

The City of Brantford has called on members of the public to put forward the names of local Second World War casualties who are missing from the Brant War Memorial.

A man has died after a fire broke out at a home in Thorold, Ont., police say. The incident remains under investigation.

A collision on the Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway on Friday that left a 15-year-old boy dead is believed to be connected to a series of escalating incidents" between students of two Hamilton schools, police say.

The 2023/24 NHL season ended with two local NHL stars bringing the Stanley Cup back to the area for a one-day celebration. We'll take a look ahead to the 2024/25 season and see which Hamilton and area hockey players you might want to keep an eye out for this season.