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Concordia University associate professor Ted Rutland says the research he’s conducted indicates that no Canadian police department has had its funding reduced since the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020 came with calls to 'defund the police.'

Waitlists that never cease, long drives and walk-in clinics that don't do the job. We asked how about your challenges getting a doctor.

A one-shot drug aimed at curbing severe COVID-19 is stirring excitement among scientists, given the limited treatments left to beat back serious infections — but some doubt it will ever reach patients. And Canadian research backing its use is just the latest chapter in a complicated, years-long saga to find effective, lasting options.

Triple C Farm has been bringing the furry friends to The Jacob Senior Living in Beamsville, Ont., over the last three days to raise seniors’ spirits and provide a form of pet therapy.

Toronto Mayor John Tory announced on Friday that he will step down from his office after admitting to a relationship with a former staffer.

Ontario and the federal government are investing in a project in Six Nations of the Grand River that they say will be the country's largest battery storage project.

Puppeteer Benton Lowe is holding a puppeteer class for kids next Saturday at Hamilton Film School in Ancaster, where he will teach kids how to create characters and put them on camera.

North America's largest ever exhibition of contemporary Indigenous beadwork opens its doors to people at the Art Gallery of Hamilton on Friday.

Marketplace has been investigating the hidden fees tacked onto consumers’ bills at hotels, restaurants and attractions in Niagara Falls, Ont., and has found the fees continue to increase with little oversight or regulation.

James Russell of Toronto is on a quest to restore 19 headstones buried at the Negro Burial Ground at Niagara-on-the-Lake, and says the small Ontario town should foot the $59,000 bill.

Publishing data related to housing investors for the first time, the Canadian Housing Statistics Program has found that more than a fifth of all houses in British Columbia, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Ontario were owned by investors in 2020.

The special interlocutor for unmarked burials at residential schools says there was 'no transparency' in a recently announced deal between Canada and an international group tasked with locating missing people.

For over a year, Tara McFadyen, who is legally blind, says she's been campaigning for security cameras to be installed on all of the city's five escarpment stairs to help police identify suspects in future attacks on people exercising or commuting.

Ontario will hold an inquest into the case of Keira Kagan, a four-year-old girl found dead with her father at the bottom of a cliff west of Toronto in 2020, the province's chief coroner says.

As the rain continues to fall this mid-February day across southwestern Ontario and temperatures rise to up to 12 C, backyard rink enthusiasts are questioning whether they'll be able to keep their passion going. A professor of environmental studies at Wilfrid Laurier University says the climate has been shifting since the 1990s, and not in favour of outdoor rinks.

How much information can you get about suspended Ontario police officers? It depends on the police service you ask. Privacy and policing experts say that needs to change.

According to VQA Ontario, the amount of icewine produced in Ontario dropped from 502,082 litres made in 2021 to 111,614 litres made in 2022. But one Niagara winery owner is optimistic this year's low grape harvest will produce higher quality icewine.

The Ontario government and the poultry industry are stressing biosecurity at their first meeting since the COVID-19 pandemic began almost three years ago, with the hope that farmers' actions today might stop an even deadlier pandemic before it starts.

When police in London, Ont., carried out two separate investigations into the 2018 sexual assault allegations that have rocked Hockey Canada, they examined the same incident, but came to different conclusions.

The lack of ice on the Great Lakes can have its benefits but could also be detrimental to shoreline protection and fish habitat.

Allana Harkin is now working on a sketch show for kids, following her work on late night's Full Frontal with Samantha Bee.

A special weather warning is in effect for southern Ontario with high winds moving northeast until Friday morning. Environment Canada warns of damages from hurled small objects and heavy rains throughout the day.

The number of dead in Turkey and Syria from the magnitude-7.8 earthquake is now more than 7,000, with thousands more still trapped under debris. Syrian-Canadians are doing all they can to help from afar.

Animals have evolved in many ways to endure Canadian winters. Migration and hibernation are well-known strategies, but some species have developed even crazier ways to make it through the cold. Here, we talk about some of those strategies, and the adaptations that make them possible.

Across the country, it's getting harder and more expensive to find a place to rent — and not just in Toronto and Vancouver.

When his father died of cancer in 2004, it took Jim Graham a year to climb out of depression. Some 18 years later, he's feeling some of that hurt again, after waiting a month for Canada Post to find a lost package with his father's ashes.

Five living spaces for families on Six Nations of the Grand River are being built as a way to help solve the demand for affordable housing in the First Nations community near Brantford, Ont.

The Ontario Hockey League's Hamilton Bulldogs officially have a new home. The team announced Tuesday that it will relocate to Brantford, Ont., and play at the Brantford Civic Centre beginning next season.

The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) says attempts by workers to ratify its first collective agreement at Catholic Family Services of Hamilton (CFS) "probably forced" the social services agency's plans to close on April 30.

Now that thousands of Ontario families are paying reduced child-care fees under the national $10-a-day program, work is underway to ensure equal and greater access to affordable care — with those in the sector pointing to workforce retention and home daycare as key.

An acting sergeant with the Hamilton Police Service pleaded guilty Monday after being charged with assaulting an Indigenous man during an arrest in May 2022. Despite the plea, the Hamilton Regional Indian Centre has concerns about what played out in court on Monday.

There's no data on how the 20 most common cancers in the country affect Black people, according to a new study from the University of Ottawa.

Two major earthquakes, followed by aftershocks, have devastated parts of southern Turkey and northern Syria and killed thousands of people. But the destruction in Syria has made a desperate situation even worse for millions of people who have survived the country’s ongoing civil war.

The demonstration turned into a stand off when protesters said they wouldn't leave until all 10 councillors around the table told them if they'll vote 'yes' or 'no' for the budget.

Hamilton police say they are looking for the individuals involved in a crime spree that left one man seriously injured after he was hit with a stolen utility truck on Sunday morning in Stoney Creek.

The federal government will propose a decade-long plan to fund and reform the health-care system when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with the premiers in Ottawa on Tuesday, according to sources with knowledge of the plan.

A 20-year-old woman is in "serious but stable condition" after a shooting outside a basketball court in Burlington, Ont., overnight Sunday.

An earthquake near Buffalo, N.Y., with a preliminary magnitude of 4.2, was "lightly felt" in parts of southern Ontario Monday morning, according to Earthquakes Canada.

Introducing a mask mandate when respiratory viruses surged in the fall may not have eased the crush on pediatric hospitals, a Public Health Ontario science brief obtained by The Canadian Press concludes.

A Hamilton nurse with 21 years of experience says the emergency health care system is broken and staffing shortages are compounding the issue. Her comments come as Hamilton Health Sciences says it has 700 vacant nursing jobs and 1,500 total unfilled positions.

The Florida Panthers are trying to sign a high-scoring forward who has an Olympic gold medal and two world championships, with hopes of getting the deal done in the coming days.

McMaster University's men's basketball team will forfeit two regular-season games played last month due to the participation of an ineligible student-athlete.

Marit Stiles officially became the new leader of the Ontario NDP on Saturday after a majority of party members voted in favour of the lone candidate.

The fax machine is 1980s technology that's still being widely used in Ontario's health-care system, but that could soon change.

The number of Ontarians without a family doctor has swelled to 2.2 million, according to a new report — just more evidence for some in the medical field that primary care is in crisis.

The cheers at FLA Live Arena were the loudest when Sarah Nurse of Canada's women's team scored during the NHL all-star skills competition Friday night in Sunrise, Fla.

Thousands of Indigo-branded ceramic mugs and other houseware products have been recalled due to possible mould contamination, says Health Canada.

The Ontario PC Party on Friday announced the nomination of Hamilton police officer, Sgt. Peter Wiesner, as its candidate in the upcoming Hamilton Centre provincial byelection.

Here is a list of events to mark Black History Month 2023 in Hamilton.

Canada's Kia Nurse is headed to the northwest. The Hamilton, Ont., native announced on Twitter on Friday that she was signing with the Seattle Storm in free agency, leaving the Phoenix Mercury after two seasons.