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GO train service resumed at St. Catharines GO station a week sooner than expected, provincial transit agency Metrolinx said. The agency had suspended nightly service at the station due to construction CN Rail was doing on the Welland Canal Railroad Bridge.

Simoni Lawrence announced his retirement from the CFL on Thursday. Lawrence, 35, played 11 seasons in Canada, the last 10 with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats after starting out with Edmonton.

There is no shortage of things to do, places to be and sights to see this Family Day weekend in Hamilton and nearby areas. Here's some of what you may want to add into your long weekend plans, from Winterfest to Black History Month events.

Hamilton city council has passed a 2024 budget that represents an estimated 5.8 per cent residential property tax increase, or about $286 more per household compared to last year.

Two unions representing city workers are upset by comments Hamilton mayor Andrea Horwath made about the police budget on Tuesday.

A winter weather travel advisory is in effect for Hamilton, Niagara, Burlington, Brantford and St. Catharines with "heavy" snowfall expected on Thursday.

The Doug Ford government is poised to give independent clinics a greater role in performing surgeries and scans currently done in hospitals, and some Ontario doctors are speaking out in favour of the controversial plan.

With wait times lasting months or years, experts say there's a 'crisis of access' for gender-affirming care. One clinic is trying to fill the gap with virtual appointments for trans and non-binary people - but Ontario patients have to pay.

The duty to consult is a legal obligation of the Crown to consult and, where appropriate, accommodate Indigenous Peoples before decisions are made that may infringe on Aboriginal and treaty rights.

Hamilton Centre's independentmember of provincial parliamentSarah Jama says she will table motions next week at Queen's Park that would boostOntario Works, Ontario Disability Support Program rates.Motions regarding air quality are also in the works, she said.

Hope Air, a service that flies patients from smaller communities to larger urban centres for treatment, says demand has surged 165 per cent in the last year. It says it needs more funding to keep up.

The Hamilton Tiger-Cats signed free-agent defensive back Jamal Peters and receiver Luther Hakunavanhu while re-signing receiver Terry Godwin II on Tuesday.

Mexico's Chivas Guadalajara knocked Forge FC out of the CONCACAF Champions Cup on Tuesday, edging the Canadian Premier League champion 2-1 in the second leg for a 5-2 aggregate win in their first-round tie.

The suspects, ranging from ages 20 to 60, face charges related to child luring, obtaining sexual services and inviting sexual exploitation of a young person, Niagara, Ont.,police say.The local YWCA says the Niagara Region is an "epicentre" for trafficking in the province.

A Brantford, Ont., woman who pleaded guilty after harassing and fraudulently seekingthe services of doulas gets two years of house arrest and three years of probation. The judge says his hands were tied in giving that sentence, and recognizes the trauma caused to the doulas victimized by Kaitlyn Braun and her fake pregnancies.

Hamilton's police board isn't making any changes tothe $214.8 million proposed police services budget.

Coun. Esther Pauls was reprimanded last year for not declaring a conflict of interest, but Hamilton's new integrity commissioner says that decision wasn't correct.

The results of McMaster University professor Tina Fetner's survey are detailed in the book "Sex in Canada: The Who, Why, When, and How of Getting Down Up North," published on Valentine's Day by the University of British Columbia Press.

The 22-year-old son of a Stoney Creek man who was killed on Saturday has been charged, police say, with his murder.

Canadian hockey trailblazers Sarah Nurse and Saroya Tinker recently sat down with CBC Sports for a one-on-one conversation about what it means to be a Black woman in the sport, and how they are mentoring young girls following in their footsteps.

Two police board members are proposinga litany of ways to cut policing costs, such as disbanding the mounted unit and eliminating some management positions, as the Hamilton Police Services Board prepares to take another look at its budget on Tuesday. Council plans to approve the 2024 budget on Thursday.

Meditations on a Lake is an original short story by Anuja Varghese, winner of the 2023 Governor General's Literary Award for fiction. It is part of Identity, a special series of new, original writing by the 2023 Governor General's Literary Award winners.

Ontario will repeal a wage-cap law on public sector workers that the Court of Appeal found unconstitutional Monday.

Some homeowners who bought into a new Hamilton development discovered their brand-new townhouses didn't have furnaces large enough to heat their homes during the winter. Neither the builder nor the HVAC company would do anything about it. An advocate for home buyers says more protection is needed.

A Thunder Bay, Ont., woman says it took decades for her to finally get diagnosed with ADHD and autism "because people at that time really didn't even consider the possibility that girls could have autism." Researchers and advocates say that scenario isn't uncommon in medicine, in part because of the gender gap in brain research.

Hamilton policesaya 56-year-old man is dead after an "altercation" with a male he knew in Stoney Creek.

The number of overdoses in the province are mounting: Belleville, Ont. was hit with 23 over the course of two days this week, and in Guelph, Ont. there were seven drug poisonings Thursday. Amid the tragedy, there are growing pleas for the province and the federal government to do more.

The Hamilton Naturalists' Club was recently honoured for work revitalizing wetlands in Grimsby that it started over 20 years ago. Nearby, the Hamilton Conservation Authority is building several new wetlands - all in a region where that natural feature is disappearing.

Colleen Langmead feels knots forming in her stomach whenever she thinks about her eviction notice. The 51-year-old pays $500 a month for an east-end bachelor apartment and can't afford much more. Her fears come as data from CMHC and Zumper show the average rental listing price in the city has grown from $1,681 in 2019 to $2,212 in 2023.

We've put together a list of 12 books by Canadian authors from countries that celebrate the Lunar New Year.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ontario Premier Doug Ford signed an agreement on Friday that details how the province must spend $3.1 billion in federal funding earmarked for health care.

In a 2022 promotional video, Robby Clark stands at the bow of a yacht, arms raised to the sky as a camera circles overhead. "You can stick me in the desert with nothing and I'm going to come out owning the desert," he says. Less than two years later, his Ontario real estate empire is under bankruptcy protection, owing hundreds of lenders tens of millions of dollars.

For the third year in a row careless smoking is the top cause of Hamilton residential fires.

A Hamilton police officer will lose his job after admitting tomishandling his gun twice.

Home prices have skyrocketed in the past six years and one expert says they may not drop much in the future.

Newly acquired U.S. international Cade Cowell scored two goals and set up another Wednesday as Mexico's Chivas Guadalajara downed Forge FC 3-1 to take a commanding lead into the second leg of their CONCACAF Champions Cup first-round series.

Environment Canada has issued a fog advisory for parts of northern Niagara region, St. Catharines, Burlington and Hamilton.

Bell Media is ending multiple television newscasts and making other programming cuts after its parent company announced widespread layoffs and the sale of 45 of its 103 regional radio stations.

People are coming together this weekend to honour Klyde Broox, a Hamilton poet who became the first Black writer to win the City of Hamilton's Arts Award for Literature in 2005, and was "a great artist" and "a great teacher."

A new taxpayer-funded advertising campaign by Premier Doug Ford's government toutingthe Ontario economy and provincial investments is facing criticism as a wasteful way to spend public money.

What Chris Pretula did on a Hamilton bus in 2022meets the Criminal Code threshold of being a hate-motivated offence, according to Crown attorney Megan Nieuwoudt. The Hamilton man, 43, livestreamed himselfunleashing a transphobic tirade at riders of an HSR bus before kicking one of them in the leg.

Musicians from Hamilton, Burlington, Six Nations and Niagara including Arkells, Brooke Nicholls, Josh Ross, Logan Staats, Shawnee Kish, Walk Off the Earth and Zoon.

Canadian Premier League champion, Hamilton's Forge FC, whose league season doesn't start until April 13, jumps into the deep end Wednesday when the team hosts Mexico's Chivas Guadalajara in the first leg of their CONCACAF Champions Cup first-round matchup.

There's growing recognition of the need for Canadian students to learn a broader picture of Black history, culture and contributions - and often people working outside of traditional classrooms are pushing the conversationforward during Black History Month and beyond.

The city and police have corrected the record on the police's proposed budget for 2024, saying the previous year's tally had a few omissions. The result is a smaller yearly increase but a bigger budget.

Kia Nurse will miss out on the upcoming FIBA Women's Olympic qualifying tournament due to an injury.

Jazz trumpeter Russ Macklem, hard rock duo The Blue Stones, and Christian singer Brooke Nicholls are among the musicians with local ties who are nominated for 2024 Juno Awards.

Charlotte Cardin, Daniel Caesar and Talk lead nominations for the awards, which will take place in Halifax on March 24.

Trains are once again running through Bronte GO Stationafter a police investigation over a suspicious package shut down the station and caused delays Tuesday.

A Canadian Palestinian citizen journalist whohas been missing for more than two weeks and hadbeen feared dead has turned up alive in Gaza.