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Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland announced on Saturday that a planned increase to the excise tax on alcohol will be scrapped, with the increase capped for two years.

The good news for poncho-ready tourists flocking to the falls this year is that Hornblower's services in Canada won't be impacted by the restructuring, the company says in a news release.

Parents seeking activities for their young ones over the March break have no shortage of options in Hamilton and surrounding areas.

Hamilton police have arrested a Mississauga woman who they say was working at long-term care homes and pretending to be a qualified nurse.

When Stratford, Ont., was hit with a ransomware attack in 2019, police advised against paying the demand - but the city's insurance company said it should, according to the former mayor. He and other experts share insights about these attacks, as services in Hamilton are disrupted for a second week.

When Vicki Gruber was a kid growing up in Stoney Creek, she loved to watch the cargo ships pass from Lake Ontario to the Hamilton Harbour through the Burlington Canal. Now, as Hamilton's harbour master, she's in charge of making sure such vessels transit safely.

Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement, saying Hamiltonians can expectbetween 20 and 40 millimetres of rain to hit the city late Friday through Saturday.

Since 2019, there's been a 170 per cent increase in the number of dead people not being claimed by family, loved ones or organizations, according to Ontario's Office of the Chief Coroner, which has released its 2023 figures.

Police have identified the 19-year-old Hamilton man killed in Wednesday'sdaytime downtownshooting.

Tenants in the floors above evacuated the building and no injuries were reported, the fire department said. The downtown street remained closed as of Thursday afternoon.

Marineland has been found guilty under Ontario's animal cruelty laws of three charges related to its care of three black bears.

After nearly half a year, McMaster University says there's no more bacteria in the water at its new downtown residence building.

An advocacy group is concerned that pay-for-plasma clinics expanding to Ontario over the next year, through a partnership between Canadian Blood Servicesanda private company, may harm the voluntary blood donation system and exploit vulnerable people.

The Ontario government is promising legislation that could save a lot of homeowners thousands of dollars by cancelling questionable liens that were quietly slapped on their properties.

There are lots of ways you can view the solar eclipse in Hamilton, Burlington, Brantford, Six Nations and Niagara - some of the best spots in Canada to view the total eclipse on April 8.

A 19-year-old Hamilton man is dead afterhe was shot downtownon Wednesday afternoon, according to police.

The newNetflix movie Code 8 Part IIis set in the fictional Lincoln City, but some of the millions of viewers who have streamed it in its first few days mayrecognize Ontario on the screen.

More than a dozen people have been arrested in connection with an ongoing organized crime investigation involving police services in Manitoba, Ontario and B.C., Winnipeg police say.

Thebus didn't have students in it when it got into the minor collision in Niagara Falls, Ont. at about 3 p.m. Monday.

Growing up, Sali Lafrenie didn't have many sports role models who looked like her, but watching the PWHL's inaugural season has made her feel seen. And now she wants to help other racialized athletes and archivists feel that way, too.

A retired assistantCrown attorney is calling on Hamilton'spoliceboard to implement a new policythat could prevent officers from breaching people's Charter rights.

The effects of climate change are showingthis year, whichhas seen52 daysabove 0C as of March 5,compared to the average of 29 days.

The police service is allocating $142,444 to the Missing Persons Unit unit, which will have a coordinator, civilian support worker and two detective constables.

A Chilean court has ordered a re-examination of the 1973 death of Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda, in part due to the work of McMaster University researchers in Hamilton who determined botulism-causing bacteria were in his blood.

WestJet is resuming Swoop's St. John's-to-Hamilton route and bringing back the Tampa, Fla., route.

With $177 million in new funding, the federal government is extending a program aimed at helping Canadian winemakers become more resilient in the face of challenges such as climate change.

City manager Marnie Cluckie namedthe nature of the cyber attack for the first timeduring a virtual call Monday afternoon, alongsideMayor Andrea Horwath. The call wasthe city'sfirst media conference since thebreach began on Feb. 25.

The director of Ontario's special investigations unit says there are no reasonable grounds to believe three Ontario Provincial Police officers committed a crime when they shot a 40-year-old man in November.

Niagara police say they have arrested and charged another man in the death of a 52-year-old prisoner, bringing the total to eight, all of whom were also prisoners at the Niagara Detention Centre in Thorold, Ont.

As measles cases rise around the world - and appear in countries like Canada with ready access to life-saving vaccines - public health experts are urging parents to vaccinate their children and adults to get their shots, too.

How much Black history Canadian students learnvaries greatly from classroom to classroom,dependent on choices made by individual teachers, but Ontario is making it compulsory learning in three grades. That's welcome news and an inspiration for those already weaving the Black experience into their classrooms - yet some educators are worried about how it will roll out.

The City of Hamilton is pausing registration for spring recreation programs until further notice due to an ongoing cyberattack. Registration was supposed to begin this week.

Hamilton public health says that due to an ongoing cybersecurity incident, it's going to wait before suspending high school students who are overdue for vaccines or don't have valid exemption records.

IfOntario's publicly-funded colleges are a de facto gateway for international students to gain permanent residency in Canada, should they be charging people premium for it? Some argue there'sa fine line between education and exploitation.

While airlines and airports say facial recognition can make air travel - an often tedious experience - more efficient and seamless, privacy advocates argue the use of biometric data is fraught and open to abuse.

With 2 months of PWHL hockey in the books, CBC Sports looks at what the numbers say about each team.

A Manitoba nurse who took a man to court following an alleged assault about a year ago outside the entrance of the hospital where she works says she has no regrets about pursuing legal recourse, even though the charges were stayed last week.

Two women have been charged with first-degree murder in the death of a boy in Burlington, Ont., in 2022,Halton Regional Police Service said Friday.

At least 54 inmates stayed in Ontario-run jails longer than they were supposed to last year, CBC Hamilton has learned.

As the April 8 total solar eclipse gets closer, unions are asking employers to make sure they'll keep workers safe.

Child-care wait lists have ballooned across Ontario since the province signed on to the national $10-a-day program, as demand due to the lower fees appears to be far outpacing the creation of new spaces in many regions.

As the brutal and deadly war in Gaza nears its sixth month,Muslim groups in the Hamilton and Niagara area will break with tradition andnot welcomeMPs into their mosques for Ramadan unless they demand ceasefire, oppose "flow of arms" and condemn "war crimes," according to a letter.

A growing number of Ontario patients are accessing private primary care from nurse practitioners - at clinics that are popping up throughout the province, charging patients typically $70 to $90 for a single appointment, and in some cases hundreds of dollars for an annual membership.

Being born on Feb. 29 is obviously rare. Between 2012 and 2022,308,968 people were born in the month of February, according to Statistics Canada data. Only 2,785 people were born on Feb. 29.

Robert Cockcroft, director of McMaster University's William J. McCallion Planetarium, explains why the Hamilton-Niagara area is the place to be during the total solar eclipse in April and why the eclipse is such a big deal.

City council received a confidential update on day four of a cybersecurity breach disrupting dozens of services. Here's what's happened and a list of what's affected.

Hamilton's bylaw, passed by its council in January, is designed to deter landlords from using majorrenovations as an excuse for bad-faith evictionsand better protect tenants living in affordable units.

City officials warn others may have been exposed to the highly contagious disease including on a flight, at Toronto's Pearson International Airport and at the Brantford General Hospital.

As Hamilton's Playhouse Cinema prepares a Wednesday night screening of his 1981 Canadian cult-classic slasher My Bloody Valentine, director George Mihalka and local special effects artists Brian Rowe and Desiree Van De Laar talked with CBC Hamilton to peel back the bloody curtain on the city's horror movie scene.

Expect temperatures to drop quickly this afternoon, Environment Canada says, as a "sharp" cold front hits Hamilton, Norfolk County, Brant County, Haldimand County and the Niagara Region.