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From a baby shower during the apocalypse to why a day at the beach is no day at the beach, local filmmakers have a variety of work on offer at this year's Hamilton Film Festival.

A bat in Burlington's LaSalle Park had rabies, Halton Region Public Health says.

A family in Simcoe, Ont., is expressing gratitude to their community for coming to their support after one of their cats was shot several times with a pellet gun.

Canadian mothers face high rates of severe, long-term injuries from the use of forceps or vacuum in childbirth, and urgent action is needed to reduce it, the authors of a new analysis paper say.

Leaders at Hamilton's four hospitals say they are facing capacity issues, as officials note cold and flu cases are rising.

Premier Doug Ford's government is fallingshort of its promises to conduct annual inspections of everylong-term care home in Ontario and to boost the ratio of inspectors to homes, according to information obtained by CBC News.

Sarah Jama'sofficeserved the cease and desist letter to Ford onThursday, saying if Ford does not remove his social media post accusing her of antisemitism and publicly apologizeJamawill pursue legal action for defamation.

The union representing educationsupport workers withinHamilton's public school boardis callingon the provincial government to increase the number of itsworkers in Hamiltonand take action to stop violence in schools.

Police are looking for a brown Mercedes-Benz connected to a weekend shooting near Club 77 that left two men hospitalized.

Esther the Wonder Pig has died at the age of 11. Her owners Steve Jenkins and Derek Walterannounced on social mediathat she died in her sleep Wednesday.

A Hamilton woman says her rental home booked through Vrbo wasn't as advertised and the company didn't do enough to help. The company says it has a process to help, but it has also faced over 1,000 complaints in the past 12 months, according to the Better Business Bureau.

Four musical pieces craftedby First Nations composers will be highlighted in a concert at the Ancaster Memorial Arts Centre in Hamilton on Friday.

Ontario's public elementary school teachers have voted 95 per cent in favour of a strike.

Two months after the deaths of 14 whales and a dolphin at Marineland came to light, Ontario has refused to make public any steps taken to improve animal safety at the park, as critics demand action and transparency.

The series Black Life: Untold Stories tells many stories of the Black experience in Canada - not just about migration but about music, arts, justice and unity.

The provincial NDP is calling on the Ontario government to create a strategy to increase funding, education and awareness around endometriosis, saying the gynecological disease is debilitating for thousands across the province who sometimes seek careoutside the country due to health care delays.

As Hamilton hair design school Bruno's celebrates its 70th anniversary, owner Sima Sakha says it can proudly point to generations of graduates.'In every salon in Hamilton or the Toronto area that you go, there are likely at least one or two people who graduated from Bruno's,' she said.

Advocates calling on Canada to create a guaranteed basic income pushed back on what one senator called the"myths and stereotypes" about such a program during a Senate committee meeting on Tuesday.

Advocates say that early childhood educators in Ontario are among the lowest paid in the country, and say that raising their wages is critical to the success of the $10-a-day childcare program.

The awards celebrate outstanding Jewish writing by Canadian authors.

Lacrosse becoming an Olympic sport again can encouragemore people to take up the sport and pave the way for it to grow on an international level, according to some lacrosse players inLondon, Ont.

Hamilton needs 60 more family doctors to ensure everyone in the city has one, according to the Hamilton Family Health Team.

The 80,000 members of the Ontario Liberal Party will soon choose their new leader, and the fundamental question they'll be facing is which candidate has the best shot at defeating Premier Doug Ford in the next election.

Theinclusion of lacrosse in the 2028 Summer Olympicsin Los Angelesbrings members of theHaudenosaunee Nationals lacrosse teams a step closer tobeing Olympic contenders.

The Progressive Conservatives tabled a motion at Queen's Park Monday to ban NDP MPP SarahJama from speaking in the chamber until she retracts and deletes her statement and formally apologizes.

The AIDS Network has withdrawn its application to provide a safe drug consumption site and wraparound treatment services despite the worsening opioid crisis. The decision is in part because of Ontario's decision to review all current sites and pause application approvals.

Hamilton Police Service is investigating a downtown shooting that sent two people to hospital.

The University of Toronto has launched a tuition-free initiative for nine First Nationswhose territoriesinclude or areadjacent to its campuses indowntown Toronto, Mississauga and Scarborough, part of the university's efforts to make education more accessible for Indigenous students.

Ontario's housing minister introduced legislation Monday to returnland from Ontario's protected Greenbelt that his government had previously removed for housing.

The number of children with autism receiving publicly funded, needs-based core therapy in Ontario appears to have only now returned to the level it was at five years ago, before changes by the Progressive Conservative government upended the system, new figures suggest.

New Democrats have unanimously urged their party to stand firm on negotiating pharmacare, even if it means ending their political agreement with the Liberals.

A Hamilton resident in a lower city apartment is worried after her dog contracted canine parvovirus and died. Building management says it is the third dog to die in the buildingin a month.

A man is facing charges after a mosquein the city's east end was vandalized twice in what police are treating as asuspected hate-motivated incident.

Mayor Andrea Horwath took the convention stage on Friday to welcome NDP members to Hamilton - a city she says represents everything that needs to be top of mind as they debate priorities.

The event, organized by theResidential Construction Council of Ontario,is the third of its kind after theresidential builders association launched theevent last year aimed at tacklingthe province's housing crunch.

The Hamilton Health Sciences Satellite Health Facility is designated for patients with an alternate level of care - that is, those who do not require acute care in hospital, but are unable to return home for any number of reasons.

The flat-rate fees school boards charge developers are making it harder for low-income families and unhoused people to put a roof over their heads, according to a local non-profit affordable housing developer.

United States Sen. Bernie Sanders is throwing his support behind Canada's New Democrats in a pre-recorded video the party aims to play at its policy convention in Hamilton on Friday.

Thousands of bikers are expected to descend on the lakeshore town of Port Dover, Ont., for Friday the 13th. Provincial police are reminding everyone to drive with caution.

The motionis a show of support forTrudeau's government's Bill C-18, and itsongoing fight withsocial media giant Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, over its use of news content.

With stories on the Hamas-Israel conflict everywhere on social media and news broadcasts, adults should be ready to talk to kids about it, say media and child psychology experts.

World-renowned anthropologist Jane Goodall told students in Burlington about ways in which young people can make a difference in the fight against climate change.

The Niagara Regional Police Service saysdetectives from the criminal investigative unit went to arural residence in the Town of Lincoln, Ont. on Wednesday just before 8 a.m.

Nathaniel Veltman, accused of killinga Muslim family in London in 2021,testifies he was subject to the strict discipline of his fundamentalist Christian mother and "had to learn to be an expert at hiding my emotions." He was the first defence witness at the weeks-long murder-terror trial in an Ontario court in Windsor.

The New Democratic Party of Canada has released its list of 60 "priority" resolutions up for debate at this weekend's party convention in Hamilton, Ont. - and none of them touch on the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Many people from other parts of the Americas reflect on their identity in the month of October, also known as Latin American Heritage Month in Canada.Karla Martinez Pomier, originally from Havana and now living in Hamilton, is one of them.

Hamilton Centre NDP MPP Sarah Jamais apologizing after making a statementabout the conflict between Hamas and Israel.Her apology comes afterOntario Premier Doug Ford calledfor Jama'sresignation.

Last month, Premier Doug Ford apologized to Ontarians and walked back the government's decision to remove 2,995 hectares of protected land from the Greenbelt to pave the way for housing development. Now, legal experts are saying developers could have legal recourse.

A documentary crew filming an upcoming feature about the ecological impact of invasive mussels in the Great Lakes has unravelled a 128-year-old mystery with the discovery of a previously unknown shipwreck near the Bruce Peninsula.

The RCMPannounced Tuesdayit has launched a criminal investigation into Ontario Premier Doug Ford's plan to open up Greenbelt land for development.