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Jennifer Timmins often finds herself breaking up fights and managing students with aggressive behaviour, subjecting herself to violence that nearly any other worker would find unconscionable - and she wants it to stop.

Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones says the province is now starting three programs aimed at bolstering staffing in the health-care sector.

After many years working in Canada's wine industry, Steve Byfield says he's never met another Black winemaker. Here's what he has to say about making wine in Canada.

A new study finds that kids who don't have access to affordable, healthy food could end up needing medical care more often for mental health and substance use issues.

CBC Toronto reviewed Ontario Court of Justice statistics which show the number of careless driving charges laid both across the province and in Toronto specifically have gone down in recent years and the percentage of those charges withdrawn before trial has skyrocketed.

A hundred years ago, Gayogohon (Cayuga) chief Deskaheh travelled to Geneva, Switzerland, to raise human rights violations at an international level.

Rich Lieberman went on a two-day road trip with his 15-year-old deaf and legally blind son, Jacob, to stock up on Jacob's favourite chips.

Areport from the the Correctional Service of Canadaoffers new details of Paul Bernardo's life behind bars - and what led to the controversial decision to transfer one of Canada's most infamous killers to a medium-security prison.

Over a dozen Inuit elders are making a historic healing journey to Hamilton this weekend to revisit the former sanatorium site where they were held in isolation and endured psychological abuse in the 1950s and '60s.

Daelon Smith is a 18-year-old basketball player from Six Nations of the Grand River. He's one of the nearly 50 athletes from the region taking part in the 10th North American Indigenous Games.

An initiativethat would have seen producers of non-alcoholic beverages like soda pay recycling fees in Ontario has been paused, with the organization set to run it citing the province's recent move to explore a different system for recovering cans and bottles.

Niagara police located the car involved in the hit-and-run last Thursday, but are still looking for a suspect.

Taylor Powell will make his first CFL start Friday night when Hamilton (2-3) hosts the archrival Toronto Argonauts (4-0).

From food festivals to a tour through the city's dark history. Here's what to do this weekend in Hamilton.

CBC Hamilton heard from Ameil Joseph, an associate professor in the school of social work at McMaster University, and Gessie Stearns, a homelessness researcher - both of whom have concerns with Hamilton's approach to encampments.

A Canadian-born doctor who hasbeen in a protracted battle with medical licensing authoritieshas finally received the documents she needs to practise medicine in Canada.

Ontario employers have failed to pay out $9 million in wages owed to workers in the 2021-22 fiscal year, provincial data suggests. Though governments say they're introducing measures to counter the problem, advocates are concerned the exploitative practice of not paying employees has become the norm.

The City of Hamilton will pay nearly $3 million in fines and damages for allowing24 billion litres of sewage and stormwater to spill into Chedoke Creek.

According to the industry group Go RVing Canada, there are more than two million recreation vehicles on the road in this country, and approximately 15 per cent of Canadian households own some type of RV.

A review committee has concludedthere was nothing stopping the Correctional Service of Canada from giving victims' families advance warning of the prison transfer of serial killer and rapist Paul Bernardo.

A severe thunderstorm watch is in effect forHamilton, Niagara and surrounding areas Thursday afternoon, according to Environment Canada.

A 46-year-old man is dead after a single-vehicle collision in Hamilton.

Niagara's new "wind phone," an old-school rotary handset mounted amid trees at Ball's Falls Conservation Area, is a place for grieving people to feel connection with their deceased loved ones.

Jason Kloss will swim 51 km across Lake Ontario between Aug. 11 and Aug. 12, hoping to raise $50K for the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

While the Not In My Backyard phenomenon existed long before the current housing shortage in Canada became pronounced, experts say counteracting it is more important now than ever before

Firefighters arrived at the Hess Street Southnightclub and restaurant to find heavy smoke and fire had already engulfed the three-storey building.

Canadian flyweight Jasmine Jasudavicius will face American Tracy Cortez on a UFC Fight Night card in September in Las Vegas.

After more than a decade of planning, the construction of a new South Niagara hospital has started.

Advocates say rent contol helps offer tenants predictability and prevents excessive price hikes from year to year. But others say it can restrain new housing development in a market that's already desperately short on units.

A 37-year-old man remains in critical but stablecondition, Hamilton police say. Investigatorshope to speak to the victim on Tuesday about the serious assault. Police are also investigating two other incidents at encampments from last month.

Brantford's mayor says he won't use his new provincially imposed powersuntil he knows how residents feel about them.

City contractorshave resumeddredging upbiohazardous sediment at the bottom ofChedoke Creek after the city saysenvironmental monitoring agreements have been reached with local First Nations groups.

An 82-year-old man is in critical condition after being struck from behind while on his bike in Niagara-on-the-Lake on Thursday, Niagara Region Police Service said.

Canada's inflation rate fell to 2.8 per cent in June, its lowest level in more than two years.

A new report released Tuesday by the Canadian Centre for PolicyAlternatives found that while minimum wages have risen since 2018, they haven't increased as fast as rental rates. Researchers say this not only leaves workers spending too much on rent, but ultimatelyputs minimum wage workers at risk of becoming homeless.

Arsenije Lojovic, the driver who hit and killedHamilton conductor Boris Brott on April 5, 2022,has been found guilty of several charges, including dangerous driving causing death and fail to remain causing death.

Some frustrated and reluctant Hamilton councillors say they'll go to great lengths to stop development of the Greenbelt, even if it means physically blocking construction.In the meantime, the city will participate in discussions with developers and the province.

Like a scene out of a heist movie, police say two menclimbed onto the roof of a Burlington, Ont. dance studio and broke in through a skylight. But their target appears to be the next door cosmetics business.

Kanatawakhon (David) Maracle envisaged a new way to teach his language - the root word method - and his legacy is heard through modern-day Kanienkeha speakers across Haudenosaunee territories in North America.

McMaster Children's Hospital wants your kids' poop - so they can add it to their collection of frozen stool and use it to help other children.

Musician Tom Wilson, artist Santee Smith, mining engineer Gary Purdy and international human rights expert Rhoda Howard-Hassmann were all named to the Order of Canada.

Hamilton's fire chief says one person is in critical but stable condition and two other people were hospitalized after a fire in an east-endhighrise apartment.

Canada is growing rapidly - and so are its housing needs. This reality is testing the construction industry, which is dealing with a mounting labour shortage.

Nearly 50 young athletes will represent Six Nations of the Grand River at the North American Indigenous Games, which begins Saturday in Nova Scotia.

Residents hadselected the peregrine falcon over a year ago in an onlinepoll by Bird Friendly Hamilton Burlington.

Documents obtained by CBC Hamilton show the range of complaints made by inmates at the Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre in 2022. Former inmates-turned-prisoner rights advocates say the complaints system in Ontario is broken and incarcerated people suffer in silence.

Depending where you are in Hamilton, you could be breathing in up to a cigarette's worth of cancer-causing benzo(a)pyrene a day. But no matter where you are in the urban area, you're breathing in more than you should be.

A Hamilton man who had been missing for nearly four yearshas been found aliveby a volunteer search group.

Some members of the family of a Hamilton man who died while bikinghas filed an $8.5 million lawsuit against the driver who killed him.

The triennial event returns, to the delight of athletes, coaches, and teams from every part of Turtle Island.