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Vanessa Austin of Fergus, Ont., says she was shocked when a man returned a wallet to her that belonged to her mother and had been lost in Toronto 40 years ago.
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A judge ruled Hamilton police violated a woman's Charter rights with "cavalier disregard" after smashing their way into her downtown apartment to look for drugs.
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Emma Greco played for two other pro leagues before the Professional Women's Hockey League, but says she's never seen the kind of interest the women's game is experiencing now - and credits it largely to television.
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Many Gazans with family in Canada are still waiting on the outcome of their applications to the special immigration measures program for extended family members of Palestinian Canadians. While they wait, their chances of becoming another casualty of the Israel-Hamas war grow.
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Once again, a name inspired by a local celebrity received the most votes in Hamilton's second-annual snow-plow naming contest: Snowmoni Lawrence, presumably inspired by Simoni Lawrence, the Hamilton Tiger-Cats linebacker.
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A Hamilton Jewish community group has spent over $200,000 to have off-duty police guard schools and synagogues since the conflict in Gaza began.That's unsustainable, says Jason Waxman, president of the Hamilton Jewish Federation. The Muslim Association of Hamilton says there has been a need for increased patrols for their community as well.
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A man in his 60s is dead and two men in their 20s are in hospital following an early-morning crash on Monday, Hamilton police say.
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The Hamilton Police Services Board is accepting written submissions from the public ahead of its specialmeeting about the service's $213 million budget.
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Based on recent history, any Ontario premier who is midway through their second term in office ought to be looking over their shoulder with great concern.
New exhibit at Art Gallery of Hamilton centres voices of people living with homelessness, addictions
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Local group Keeping Six hosts arts workshops for people with lived experience of homelessness and addiction. Some of the art participants made is now on display at the Art Gallery of Hamilton as a way to make the artists feel seen - and to remind others the gallery is for all people in the community, say organizers.
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The moon is shrinking- but not very fast. It's at a rate of about46 metres over the past few million years. That shrinkage is causingmoonquakes,according to a new study from NASA. Gordon Osinski,a planetary scientist, and an earth sciences professor at Western University,spoke with Travis Dolynny on CBC Radio's Afternoon Drive.
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Dr. Saleh Eleiwa, an emergency physician at Al-Shifa Hospital, was on a call with his cousin in Canada on Nov. 18 when he approached an IDF checkpoint while evacuating the hospital under Israeli raid. Witnesses have told the family that Eleiwa was taken by the IDF, but neither Israel nor Red Cross has answered questions about his whereabouts.
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After living with bed bugs for months, Esther Stam says it isn't only the persistent bites and sleepless nights that are 'horrendous' but also how difficult it is to get help.
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Premier David Eby says he has accepted Selina Robinson's apology but expects her to try and regain the trust of British Columbians after she referred to the region where Israel was established as a "crappy piece of land."
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The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that the Ontario government does not have to disclose Premier Doug Ford's mandate lettersin a unanimous decision issued Friday.
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Linebacker Jordan Williams awoke Monday morning expecting it to be another day of preparing to help the Toronto Argonauts avenge a disappointing end to their 2023 season. But that all changed with one telephone call.
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Members of the Black community in Hamilton filled city council chambers on Thursday to celebrate the beginning of Black History Month.
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A small group of landlords who own hundreds of rental properties across the province have run out of money, owe over $144 million in unpaid loans and face dozens of lawsuits from creditors, according to documents filed with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.
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A Hamilton choreographer and storyteller is exploring the "uncomfortable" realities of inequality, systemic racism, misogyny, homophobia and other issues of social justice through the lens of hip-hop and dance.
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A property owner admitted they did not maintain the smoke alarms in a residential building in Hamilton's Landsdale neighbourhood. They have been charged $8,000 for violating the Ontario Fire Code.
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Victoria Mancinelli, director of public relations for LiUNA Central and Eastern Canada, is suing lawyer Mohamad Bsat for implying she supported the genocide" and ethnic cleansing" of Palestinan people and their supporters, court documents obtained by CBC Hamilton show.
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The Los Angeles Sparks acquired Canadian guard Kia Nurse from Seattle on Wednesday along with the Storm's fourth overall pick in April's WNBA draft. In exchange, the Sparks will send their 2026 first-round pick to Seattle.
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It used to be that a Longhouse was the only place where you could hear traditional Haudenosaunee teachings. Now, out of necessity, these teachings are available on multiple platforms to make them more accessible and engage a younger generation.
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A Hamilton man who faced assault charges after he suffered a seizureand then was Tasered by police in 2022 is happy the Crown dropped the charges this week. His lawyer says more needs to be done to ensure first responders treat seizures as a medical issue and not a criminal one.
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Ontario is extending a program that helps long-term care homes provide clinical placements for nursing and personal support worker students.
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Ontario has ordered municipalities that directly operate child-care centres to do a value-for-money audit of their programs to determine if they could instead be operated by a "third party," raising concerns about privatization.
4 million Canadians have a criminal record. Companies not hiring them are missing out, say advocates
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A new report being released Wednesday finds many Canadian companies remain unwilling to hire people with criminal records, even when they havethe skills or experience needed for the job.
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Marineland has pleaded not guilty to alleged offences regarding its care of three young black bears and has asked to have the charges stayed.
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Niiakohontesha Gray began translating and re-creating prototypes of various popular board games to reflect Kanien'keha:ka language and culture and make learning more fun.
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Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board trustees approved rescheduling a professional activity day for Friday, March 1 to Monday, April 8, the day of a coming total solar eclipse, due to "safety concernsfor students, staff and families."
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In a rare move, Hamiltoncouncil has sentback the police service's proposed$213 millionbudget - up 10.24 per cent from last year and the largest component in the city's budget.
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After routine childhood vaccinations fell during the pandemic, public health officials across the country are working to get Canadian students back up to date on immunizations for serious yet preventable diseases.
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Hamilton's light rail transit subcommittee voted to defer a decisionuntil March 21 on the city's role in future LRT operations afterreceiving an earful from members of thepublic Monday.
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Representatives for Bell Media said Monday that a "scheduling change" was behind their decision to quietly remove 299QueenStreetWest from a planned debut last Friday on the channel and its streaming service.
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The federal government has announced it is seeking another pause on medical assistance in dying (MAID) provisions that would cover those suffering solely from mental illnesses.
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Every region of Ontario is experiencinga shortage of family doctorsand the crisis is only going to get worse if the provincial government doesn't take immediate action, the Ontario Medical Association is warning.
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A 26-year-old man died after a pickup truck carrying four people crashed on a rampwhile trying to evadeHalton police early Monday morning, according to the SIU.
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The provincial government is moving nine privately-run ServiceOntario outletsto Staples Canada stores this year, theminister of public and business service delivery said Monday.
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Ontario's tolled highway is dealing with double the number of disputed charges related to lost, stolen or duplicated licence plates than it was in 2019.
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A special parliamentary committee is set to release a report this week that will shape the federal government's decision on whether to put the brakes on allowing mental illness as grounds for a medically assisted death.
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On a cold winter's day, the brown and white cattle munching on hay in the pasture stare, moo and poop like any other.But it's their burps that make them special, says Dave Braden, a small beef farmer in Puslinch, Ont., between Hamilton and Guelph.
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Tensions between the chair of Hamilton Police Service's board and a councillor flared during a Thursday meeting over comments the councillor made about the police service's proposed budget.
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A school bus collided with a pick-up truck in Welland, Ont. on the morning of Jan. 24, Niagara Regional Police Service said. A 77-year-old bus driver has been with careless driving and failing to remain at the scene of a collision.
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Canadian women's hockey player Sarah Nurse became the first Black woman to win an Olympic gold in hockey, paving the way for thousands of young Black girls hoping to follow in her footsteps. She sat down with The National's Ian Hanomansing to talk about her incredible journey, from lacing up skates with her dad as a four-year-old in Hamilton, Ont., to becoming one of the faces of professional women's hockey. Watch the interview Sunday, Jan. 28 at 9 p.m. ET on CBC News Network
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The three day conference brought 400 Indigenous matriarchs and women together to celebrate the strength and wisdom of Indigenous women.
A decade in the making, Liberian library set to open with help from Hamilton and lots of local input
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After more than a decade of work, Hamiltonian Leo Nupolu Johnson is preparing for the opening of a library and learning centre in his home country of Liberia.
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A program in Pikangikum First Nation, a community 700 kilometres northwest of Thunder Bay, Ont., has been teaching kids everything they need to know about bikes - from riding, to bicycle safety, to repairs, to building trails.
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An anti-racism advocate says an independent process" - not Hamilton Police Service (HPS) - should pick who sits on a community advisory panel set to inform the police service's new race-based data strategy.
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Retired tight end Luke Willson played parts of eight seasons in the NFL, primarily with the Seattle Seahawks and one season for his "hometown" Detroit Lions. That was 2018, when they finished 6-10, in a season he doesn't look back on fondly. The Lions play the San Francisco 49ers Sunday in the NFC Championship game.
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More than a year after police in India named Fenil Patel as a suspect in the human smuggling case of a family that froze to death at the Canada-U.S. border in Manitoba, an investigation by CBC's The Fifth Estate has found him living freely in a suburb just outside Toronto.