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Sheila Copps comes back, the Toronto Blue Jays get going and a Conservative candidate in Toronto, a former science teacher, has some controversial comments about oil spills. These are a few of the top stories worth your time this morning.

It’s been 15 years since Sheila Copps has campaigned in Hamilton, but walking down a Dundas sidewalk, she still looks like a pro.

Your Hamilton traffic notes for October 8, 2015. Check here for traffic and commute updates.

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Hamilton police are asking the public to help track down missing 18-year-old Brendan McFarlane.

Steelworkers and pensioners protested Wednesday outside the Toronto courthouse where U.S. Steel Canada is arguing it should be allowed to stop paying pension contributions and property taxes.

A 72-year-old man was mugged early Wednesday morning near Wilson Street East and Sanford Avenue North, police say.

It was a room concerned with the politics of division on Tuesday night when Hamilton Muslims packed into a meet-and-greet for local federal election candidates.

Eleven years after duking it out in a tough Liberal nomination battle, Sheila Copps is coming home to help the party campaign in Hamilton.

That bylaw officer handing you a ticket might be a little friendlier. And a Canada Revenue Agency adviser left his job in 2013 then joined an industry lobby group campaigning to curtail the powers of tax investigators. These are a few of the top stories worth your time this morning.

Your Hamilton traffic notes for October 7, 2015. Check here for traffic and commute updates.

Here's your Hamilton weather for October 7, 2015.

Paramilitary-style uniforms being replaced by more cheerful blue polo shirts

Suspected drug overdoses sent two more inmates from the Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre to hospital on Saturday, the day after one inmate died and another was also sent to hospital, both with apparent drug overdoses.

The Ontario government has fined Carillion Canada $900,000 including half-a-million for not clearing the QEW during a storm last November, and $400,000 for not doing a proper job on the QEW between Burlington and Mississauga in another storm last December.

Sgt. Jason Howard's sentencing will be delayed while the defence and prosecutor iron out discrepancies in the agreed statement of facts underpinning the hearing.

Hamilton police were called to Sir Allan MacNab secondary Tuesday morning after a social media threat over a “potential weapon,” the school board says.

Home prices and sales were up again in September compared to the same month in 2014, according to numbers released Tuesday from the Realtors Association of Hamilton-Burlington.

Two vehicles hit and killed a buffalo, the animal, Tuesday morning on the QEW near Lyons Creek Road in Niagara Falls, just 25 kilometres from Buffalo, the city.

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A new report from the Hamilton Community Foundation touts the city’s “economic renaissance,” but cautions that disparity is a “critical issue,” as many people are not able to reap the benefits of all that newfound optimism.

Hamilton's steelworker union head is seeing red — but is not surprised — by a court monitor report that backs a proposal by U.S. Steel Canada to suspend its benefits to pensioners.

Hamilton police Staff Sgt. Matt Kavanagh, who was the lead investigator for the Tim Bosma murder investigation, has been awarded the Canadian Order of Merit for a police officer.

A police act sentencing hearing Monday for Jason Howard, a 16-year veteran of Hamilton police examines the circumstances of 23 false benefit claims and his reasons for making them.

Coun. Aidan Johnson saw Strathcona in a way he usually doesn't early Monday morning. He rode on the back of a truck as a garbage man.

A Hamilton man is facing charges of committing an indecent act after allegedly exposing himself to a woman on the Rail Trail, and then telling police that he wouldn’t show up in court to answer to the charges.

The CBC's technology columnist Jesse Hirsh talks about a new tool that could help politicians make you like them more and hate their opponents.

Malcolm Kelly breaks down the balance of power in the Canadian Football League for Week 15.

Justice Stephen Glithero has stepped aside because of health issues and a new judge has taken over the trial.

A large part of being a world-class athlete is meticulous preparation. But nothing could have prepared Edmonton's Annamay Pierse and Burlington's Mark Oldershaw for the arrival of their first child — almost three months early.

American comedian Sarah Silverman tweeted her support for the NDP and a look at where Canada's refugees come from. These are a few of the top stories worth your time this morning.

Your Hamilton traffic notes for October 5, 2015. Check here for traffic and commute updates.

Here's your Hamilton weather for October 5, 2015.

About 100 musicians, singers, photographers, concert promoters and venue reps squeezed onto the stairs of the Tivoli Theatre on James Street North on Sunday afternoon for a "family portrait".

Only six out of 18 local candidates for the upcoming election responded to a questionnaire on issues like violence against women.

Emergency and utility crews dove into a windy, watery mess Saturday as a storm swept through Hamilton, downing electrical lines and filling one basement with six feet of water.

The NDP is the only party with the backbone to stand up to the Conservatives and walk away from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, party leader Tom Mulcair said on a blitz of ridings in southwestern Ontario that went to the Tories in the last election.

Check out great new tracks from Cat Clyde, Grey Lands and Television Road.

It helps to have four friends willing to go in with you, and money. A lot of it.

Two major police services in Ontario have asserted that their oversight boards don't have the power to stop them from doing street checks, raising questions of police accountability and civilian checks on police power in the province.

The Calgary Stampeders have clinched a home playoff game. They're guaranteed to finish at least second in the CFL West division after beating the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 23-20 at Tim Hortons Field.

With star quarterback Zach Collaros out for the season, backup Jeff Mathews takes the helm of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats offence and will try to keep the team's drive to the Grey Cup alive on Friday against the visiting Calgary Stampeders (7:30 p.m. ET).

One of only two comedy film festivals in Canada, the Hamilton Comedy Film Festival promises 60 of “the best and funniest.”

With credit for time served, Nicholls will serve 4 years and 4 months in a federal penitentiary for killing 14-year-old Jesse Clarke.

When you’re wanted by police, sometimes it just doesn’t pay to help a friend.

One called it an exciting way to open up new markets for Hamilton businesses. Another said it puts them in danger. Yet another said he'd pull out of it altogether because it will see Hamiltonians drinking milk filled with damaging growth hormones.

One man was found dead and another was rushed to hospital early Friday at the Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre.

9 people have been killed in Oregon after another mass shooting in the U.S. and it's your last chance to see federal party leaders debate before election day. These are a few of the top stories worth your time this morning.

Your Hamilton traffic notes for October 2, 2015. Check here for traffic and commute updates.