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There were expressions of both disappointment and joy Monday after Ontario's Superior Court dismissed a Charter challenge launched by an alliance of groups advocating for the rights of sex workers, ruling that Canada's criminal laws on sex work are constitutional.

The Loewith family has owned a dairy farm in Hamilton's Copetown neighbourhood for almost 80 years, but now they aresteppinginto the future by revisiting the past with a milk delivery service.

Teachers in Ontario's public elementary schools are set to start voting today on whether they want to give their union a strike mandate.

The Hamilton Tiger-Cats received contributions from their offence, defence and special teams in their upset win against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

The Canadian Country Music Awards took place at the FirstOntario Centre in Hamilton, Ont., on Saturday, where Burlington's Josh Ross took home the Breakthrough Artist of the Year award.

Ontario winemakers have long raised concerns about the province's tax regime. Advocates say the tax cut would help the industry, particularly after the COVID-19 pandemic.

For years, Ben Chamberlain, who has been living with physical disabilities half his life, wasn't sure he'd return to a backcountry trail, but he now spends time each year in Ontario's wilderness. He isn't alone in pushing hislimits to get into nature. A Windsor man who uses a wheelchair made it to Hardwood Lookout Trail summit in Algonquin Park.

The annual Canadian Country Music Association awards are being hosted at Hamilton's First Ontario Centre Saturday night. The star-studded event brings together Canadian country music stars and up-and-comers.

Building more housing in Canada will require a herculean effort across all levels of government. Some policy solutions are easier than others, such as removing the GST from purpose-built rentals, but there are other things governments can do right now to get more housing built.

They were teammates for the bulk of their CFL careers, celebrated two Grey Cup wins and spent countless hours off the field together. So it's only fitting that Josh Bourke will enter the Canadian Football Hall of Fame with John Bowman.

Coming from Marineland, the Niagara Falls, Ont., theme park, he was quiet and unsure in the natural habitat. Now he's thriving, confident and "a ham," says Aspen Valley Wildlife Sanctuary.

Nordstar, the company that owns the Toronto Star and other newspapers, announced Friday that it is seeking bankruptcy protection for the unit that owns more than 70 local newspapers and axing more than 600 jobs in the process.

When Nancy Anilniliak was five, officials seized her from her home in Pangnirtung, Nunavut, and shipped her off to a tuberculosis sanatorium in Hamilton, Ont. Sixty-five years later, officials battling an outbreak of the disease in Pangnirtung must contend with the trauma caused by the actions of their predecessors - while those infected face new challenges.

A Hamilton police officer barred from carrying a gun for five years after two incidents involving his service weapon is fighting to keep a job with the force while he waits out the weapons ban.

The long delays in resolving landlord-tenant disputes are worst in Ontario, but other provinces are experiencing it as well. Experts say those delays will have an impact on the already-stressed rental market.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the government is extending the repayment deadline for its small business pandemic loan program by one year, but business will still lose the forgiveable portion of the loan if they don't repay in the coming months.

A Tecumseh, Ont., native who brought awareness to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic by running a marathon while wearing a hospital gown is now dealing with the effects of long COVID.

The Toronto Rock won't be booted out of their home arena in Hamilton during the upcoming season because of renovations.

Faced with increasing pressure to respond to widespread concerns about the cost of living and questions about his leadership, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a series of new measures Thursday meant to deal with rising housing and grocery prices.

For the first 94 days of the COVID-19 pandemic, provincial inspectors never stepped foot into Hamilton long-term care homes, where seniors were inside, dying. That's according to a recent report from Ontario's ombudsman, Paul Dube.

In an effort to quash the Ford government's decision to remove Hamilton land from the Greenbelt, the city is considering turning to the courts.Meanwhile, an environmental group encourages council and staff to stall development for as long as possible.

Ranking the breakthrough artist nominees at the 2023 CCMA Awards.

'We have never experienced a demand for shelter space like it exists today in this community, or experienced the level of desperation that we now see in families,' says Good Shepherd's Katherine Kalinowski.

Religious leaders in Ontario say conversations about people who are LGBTQ are becoming more common among Christians - but it's not all bad. In fact, they're seeing more LGBTQ acceptance among churchgoers.

Video footage of Nathaniel Veltman being questioned by police, less than an hour after a Muslim family was struck by a vehicle in London in June 2021, was shown at his murder-terror trial in Ontario court in Windsor on Wednesday. Earlier, a woman testified she was on her balcony when she saw a truck hit something, only learning later that a person had been struck.

Tickets are now available for several events in the Grey Cup Festival that will precede the Canadian Football League's biggest game of the year, to be held in Hamilton on Nov. 19 at Tim Hortons Field.

Country singer Josh Ross considers himself a thrill seeker by nature and as the top nominee at Saturday's Canadian Country Music Association Awards, he's certainly headed on another wild ride.

The City of Hamilton is set to honour former NHL player, coach and general manager Pat Quinn with a "new look" and rededication ceremony to the Pat Quinn Arena (Parkdale Arena).

Fears that unhoused people set to live in the north end's tiny homes pilot will be in danger may put the location of the projectin jeopardy, aHamilton Alliance for Tiny Homes board member told CBC Hamilton.

A new report commissioned by Premier Doug Ford's government warns that climate change poses high risks to Ontario, with impacts on everything from food production to infrastructure to businesses.

A Brantford, Ont., man has been charged for trying to get dozensof underage girls to send himintimate photos of themselves, accordingtolocal, provincial and U.S. law enforcement.

The man accused of running over a Muslim family in London with his truck approached a cab driver minutes after the June 2021 incidentand told him to call the cops," the jury at his murder-terror trial heard Tuesday in an Ontario court in Windsor.

Although the pace of increase has come down slightly, the price of rental accommodation in Canada continues to go up - with the average tenant now being asked to pay $2,117 a month.

One man is in hospital with multiple gunshot wounds after a shooting at Montgomery Park in Hamilton.

Between school policies and political rhetoric, many parents may soon find themselves talking to their children about a topic that could make them uncomfortable

A new study reveals the mounting toll the opioid crisis is having on emergency departments and paramedic services in Ontario, and should serve as a 'wake up call' to policymakers, says the report's author.

Beth Harris-Smoke, 13, has almost 3,000 hours of boxing training under her beltand recently won a national boxing championship.

People ina Niagara Falls, Ont., subdivision areopposinga company's plans to build a gravel quarry close totheir neighbourhood on what is now farmland, with one resident saying having their homes just blocks from an industrial sitecould "put a damper on our future."

Data from a Dodge Ram pickup truck driven by Nathaniel Veltman on the day members of a London, Ont., Muslim family were struck shows him veering to the right five seconds before impact, his gas pedal 100 per cent compressed, court heard Monday, the opening day of the 22-year-old's murder trial.

McMaster in Hamilton and Brock in St. Catharines are among the latest universities to removeclassroom information from their public websites in the wake of the June stabbings in University of Waterloo gender-studies class in southern Ontario.

Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister Paul Calandra says he will be "reviewing the previously stated intention" to appoint facilitators to review some of the regional municipalities in Ontario to ensure they're equipped to meet housing targets.

Ontario DriveTest exams are supposedto be similar to each other and evaluate the same driving skills, but the percentage of people who pass varies drastically depending on where you take the test, according to new data obtained by CBC Hamilton through a freedom of information request.

A 44-year-old man from Thorold, Ont. died Saturday afternoon after he collided with an SUV while riding a motorcycle. Niagara police are asking witnesses and drivers with dash cam footage to contact them.

When it comes to coming out in high school, Tor La - a youth activist and Grade 10 student in Waterloo region - believes that young people should be selective about who they tell in order to stay safe, explaining that it's your information. You don't have to share that."

Canada won the bronze-medal match attheFIBA men's Basketball World Cup on Sunday in Manila, Philippines. The Canadians did it in dramatic fashion, taking a127-118 overtime win against the United States.

People flooded James Street North on Friday evening for the first day of Supercrawl 2023.

Experts say Ontario's Greenbelt has not only accomplished its original purpose of containing sprawl, but helped offset the effects of climate change.

The provincial charged Ssonix Products following a series of explosions Jan. 12 that killed a worker.

The jury at an inquest into the death of a teen who died at a school for blind students has recommended the province review the availability of overnight medical resources provided to schools that cater to disabled children.