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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.

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.