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The Canadian crew of a passenger plane that has been unable to leave the Dominican Republic since April is finally being allowed to come home.

Ontario's labour relations board says the provincial government has withdrawn its application to have a walkout by 55,000 education workers declared illegal.

Members of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry and its band will take part in Hamilton's Remembrance Day parade on Sunday, back for the first time since the start of the pandemic.

Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement for Niagara Falls, the southern Niagara region and Welland as they are set to see 20 to 40 millimetres of rain left over from Hurricane Nicole.

Nathan Donald and his great-grandfather, Burdett Sisler of Fort Erie, Ont., might be 100 years apart in age, but they've formed a close bond, and Remembrance Day has brought them closer together. For his YouTube channel, the seven-year-old interviewed Sisler about his service.

This year's national Remembrance Day ceremony at the National War Memorial in Ottawa marks the first time since 2019 that veterans and Canadian Armed Forces members were able to gather in the nation's capital to remember those who lost their lives in service of their country.

GO Transit workers say they have reached a tentative deal with Metrolinx that ends their four-day strike.

Hamilton police have arrested and charged a third man after Marko Bakir was shot dead at his West Mountain home almost four years ago.

Public health units and schools in Hamilton and the Niagara region aren’t considering implementing mask mandates unless the Ontario government makes a move as COVID-19 transmission is rising and local hospitals are overcrowded with children.

A crash on a Norfolk County highway north of Simcoe has left one person dead, and sent three adults and a child to hospital on Thursday afternoon.

The federal government and Hamilton-Oshawa Port Authority are hoping a new facility at Ontario's largest port will ease supply chain congestion at the site.

Premier Doug Ford's battle with Ontario education workers, and his climb down after attempting to impose a contract on them, could mean his government is in for painful contract talks with other unions and frayed relationships with key labour allies, say experts who study the union movement.

The Royal Canadian Legion holds the trademark on the image of the poppy as a symbol of remembrance and says it has seen a spike in unauthorized poppy products for sale this year.

Ontario doctors are advising the public to wear masks indoors and keep up with vaccinations amid a worsening respiratory illness season that's hitting children particularly hard.

On Nov. 8, 2022 a 19-year-old was driving at a very high speed of 239 km/h, saying "I didn't realize I was going so fast."

Peel Regional Police says the former finance director and property maintenance coordinator at Peel Children's Aid Society (CAS) have been charged with fraud. The 2 men are from Hamilton and Acton.

Dr. Matthew Strauss — an acting medical officer of health in southern Ontario — is suing Queen's University and the head of its medicine department for over $600,000.

When the new Hamilton city council is sworn in next Wednesday, Alex Wilson will be council's youngest member. But the Ward 13 councillor-elect says don't confuse young people with those with a lack of experience – political or otherwise.

The school was renamed after Monture earlier this year, making Tuesday the first Indigenous Veteran's Day the school marked since the change.

The Canadian Premier League is rejigging its salary structure and increasing its minimum player salary for next season.

The City of Hamilton says it has changed the time and location of the new city council's inaugural meeting to be in the evening to "allow for greater participation."

Hamilton's city prosecutors have withdrawn trespassing charges against Caryma Sa'd, a Toronto-based lawyer who was controversially arrested near an Ontario Progressive Conservative campaign stop in Hamilton in May.

The union representing striking GO Transit bus operators, station attendants and other employees will return to the negotiating table on Friday.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says his government will present an "improved offer" when bargaining resumes Tuesday with a union representing 55,000 education workers, who are back on the job after a walkout that closed schools across the province.

The Ford government is proposing to build new homes in 15 different areas of what is now part of the protected Greenbelt — an idea that's drawing fire from opposition politicians and housing advocates after the province previously pledged not to touch the land.

Throughout the 20th century, many Indigenous people enlisted in military service to fight wars, risk their lives and make monumental sacrifices.

The province's delay-ridden Landlord and Tenant Board is prioritizing applications from landlords asking for above guideline rent increases until the end of the year, according to a memo obtained by CBC Toronto.

Community Fridges HamOnt, a non-profit food share program that maintains three public fridges in Hamilton, is looking for a new location for their Beasley neighbourhood fridge.

Hamilton education workers, students and parents are eager to return to schools, but there are questions about how the bargaining between the Ford government and CUPE will proceed.

Ontario schools are set to reopen Tuesday after a union representing some 55,000 education workers who walked off the job last Friday won a promise from Doug Ford's government that it will repeal legislation that imposed a contract and banned them from striking.

Doctors and pharmacists in Canada are having trouble finding an important antibiotic for treating bacterial infections in children, and some are insisting a surge in respiratory illnesses is contributing to the shortage.

Commuters across much of southern Ontario may find themselves scrambling for alternative means of transport after the union representing 2,200 GO Transit employees announced members would be walking off the job as of Monday morning.

The Montreal Alouettes led from start to finish in a 28-17 win over the visiting Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the CFL East Division semifinal on Sunday. They will face the Argonauts in the division final next weekend in Toronto.

Parents of children who've been waiting years for routine, non-urgent surgery at SickKids to correct a birth defect say they have few options. Either they keep waiting or leave the country as the hospital struggles to reduce a growing surgical backlog.

Hamilton's public school board is moving to online learning next week as education workers with the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) continue to strike.

The provincial government is ordering Hamilton to expand its urban boundary, despite a 2021 city council decision and massive showing of public support to hold the boundary.

Climate researchers and advocates from across Ontario who are attending COP27 in Egypt beginning Sunday or watching it from home say they want more tangible actions and ways they can help shape the future of climate action.

The union representing Metrolinx's GO Transit bus drivers and other workers says it will be moving ahead with a strike on Monday unless a deal can be reached with the provincial transit agency over the weekend.

Hamilton education workers with the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) were among the thousands across Ontario who took the streets Friday, marking the first day of an indefinite walkout.

Ontario is proposing to remove land from the Greenbelt, an area created to protect environmentally sensitive lands from development, in order to build at least 50,000 new homes, while adding new land to it elsewhere.

Hamilton’s public school board says it’ll try to keep schools open despite their 500 caretakers and maintenance staff going on strike along with other CUPE members working in schools across the province — but what does a day in the life of a custodian look like?

The chair of Hamilton's public school board says the Ford government is "trampling on workers' rights" by invoking the notwithstanding clause and declaring the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) strike illegal.

Hamilton’s public school board says it plans to keep schools open “as long as possible” amid the CUPE strike — but one of its head caretakers says it will be a struggle to keep them open much longer without custodians and maintenance workers.

A fog advisory remains in effect for Hamilton and much of southern Ontario, with Environment Canada warning of near-zero visibility and hazardous driving conditions.

Thousands of Ontario education workers hit picket lines Friday in the first day of an indefinite walkout that has closed schools across the province, one day after the government passed controversial legislation that imposed a contract and rendered any strike action illegal.

A group of roughly 50 people gathered outside the office of Neil Lumsden, Progressive Conservative Member of Provincial Parliament for Hamilton East—Stoney Creek, on Thursday to protest a new proposed housing bill.

The federal government has unveiled a number of measures meant to help students, workers and businesses cope with the rising cost of living as the economy slows down. Here are some highlights of the Fall Economic Statement.

A 16-year-old girl was injured and taken to hospital after, police say, an "incident involving an edged weapon" at Nora Frances Henderson Secondary School.

Incumbent councillor Angie Desmarais of Ward 2 in Port Colborne, Ont., was in the middle of having hip surgery when she learned she had lost the job — after her opponent's name was picked out of a box. But it's not the only quirky aspect of the recent municipal election in the small city.

NDP opposition members were thrown out of the Ontario legislature Wednesday, following heated exchanges over Premier Doug Ford’s plan to use the notwithstanding clause to block strike action and impose a contract on education workers.