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A new program that encourages children at a recreational basketball league in Hamilton to read and build their-self confidence is being welcomed by the mother of one of those youngers and by the co-ordinator at the Steel Town Athletic Club.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced that he will host a first ministers' meeting in Ottawa on Feb. 7 as his government looks to finalize a deal on health-care funding with the provinces.

A woman from Six Nations of the Grand River thought Canadian television personality Mike Holmes would be renovating her century-old family farm home — then she learned she was actually speaking to scammers.

The heavy snowfall that hit most of Southern Ontario Wednesday has led to the cancellation of some services around Hamilton and Niagara.

The Ontario government has expanded the PRESTO credit payment system to Durham, York, Burlington and Hamilton, allowing riders to pay adult fares using credit cards.

Marineland has registered to lobby the Ontario government with the goal of selling the park. A lawyer who has represented Marineland for years says one of the lobbying goals of the Niagara Falls, Ont., tourist attraction is its sale.

On the second day of the federal cabinet retreat, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his ministers heard from a trio of economists who came bearing grim news about Canada's economic outlook.

Transport Minister Omar Alghabra said Tuesday the government will overhaul the airline passenger bill of rights in response to travellers' claims that the system is fundamentally flawed.

A Hamilton officer has been cleared of wrongdoing in the case of a multi-vehicle collision in September that left two men dead and two people injured, Ontario's police watchdog says.

Veteran CFL quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell on Tuesday signed a three-year deal with Hamilton, the club announced after it acquired the pending free agent's rights in November from Calgary.

The same fraudulent driver's licence was used to rent two Toronto homes that organized crime tried to sell without the homeowner's knowledge, according to a private investigator working on the cases.

Hamilton-area activists and a local Member of Parliament are hoping Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will hear what they want prioritized while he and his ministers stay in Hamilton for a three-day retreat.

Ministers of transport and justice made two funding announcements in Hamilton supporting the Hamilton airport and the John Howard Society of Hamilton, Burlington and Area, respectively.

The film Blackberry follows the rise and fall of Research In Motion, the Waterloo, Ont.-based company behind the phone. The 73rd Berlin International Film Festival will take place Feb. 16 to 26.

The Aboizneid family settled in Hamilton in 2015, seeking refuge and opportunity for their young children. Now they are facing deportation to Chile — a country where the family lived before coming to Canada but have no family ties and do not speak the language.

In an effort to avoid dialysis and the province's organ wait list, Simcoe, Ont., resident Christina Meyer, who was diagnosed with kidney disease at 18 and is now 50, has taken her search for a living donor to social media.

Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement for Hamilton that says significant snowfall is possible late Wednesday into Thursday.

The federal Liberal cabinet is set to meet for three days to hash out their priorities around policy and political strategy for the next few months, ahead of the return to Parliament later this month.

CBC Toronto has learned a handful of organized crime groups are behind these real-estate frauds — in which at least 30 homes in the Greater Toronto Area have either been sold or mortgaged without the real owners' knowledge. Those revelations come from a private investigation firm working for a title insurance company to try and get to the bottom of the scams, which are costing insurers millions in claims.

This week, Kitchener Centre MPP Laura Mae Lindo announced she will step down, and said part of the reason is because of high child-care costs for when she needed to be in Toronto. University of Guelph's Leah Levac says that's a big issue that can't be ignored.

Nearly 12,000 children are on a wait list for surgeries across Ontario. It's a situation that officials at four major pediatric hospitals say is part of a much bigger problem that they need help from the province to solve.

Businesses along the LRT route say they still have big questions, such as when they should expect construction on their section of King Street, and what kind of support, if any, will be available.

Experts are calling on the agency responsible for enforcing air passenger protection rules to be more aggressive with fines when airlines run afoul of those regulations.

Officials announced Saturday that the federal government and 325 First Nations have agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit, seeking reparations for the loss of language and culture brought on by Indian residential schools, for $2.8 billion.

To celebrate the Year of the Water Rabbit, Dora Wilson said she is planning on showing her two kids, aged six and four, Chinese traditions — and a lot of things involving food. But she wishes there were more ways to connect to community here.

Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc and shíshálh Nation in British Columbia filed a claim for collective compensation in 2012 as part of a broader class action known as the Gottfriedson case. That case was settled last fall and more details are expected to be released on Saturday.

Flamborough landowner Justin Holmes continues to add truckloads of soil to his property, at least one of his neighbours said, even as the City of Hamilton seeks an injunction to get him to stop.

Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada’s chief public health officer, urged people to get their booster shots Friday as COVID-19 activity continues to fluctuate in the country.

The City of Hamilton says its inspectors have found another sewage leak from a single home in east Hamilton.

Yaqoub Saeed was killed in a hit and run on Jan. 11. His brother Shirwa Geele remembers him as a funny, smart, and bright kid who cared for everyone.

City councillors are pushing further discussion on how to restructure Hamilton's board of health to next week, while they figure out if and how they can better integrate community voices into the board.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal cabinet ministers will gather in Hamilton for a three-day federal retreat from Jan. 23 to 25.

Hamilton police have arrested a man in relation to the "suspicious death" of a woman found in Ancaster on Wednesday.

A new study has found that the night sky may be brightening faster than once thought, and that has consequences for humans, ecosystems and more.

Métis Nation of Ontario members are voting to determine who the organization should recognize as a Métis citizen.

Hamilton police are asking the public to help them find a man who has been missing since last Wednesday.

Premier Doug Ford says Ontario will adopt new "as of right" rule that allow health-care workers registered in other provinces to start working here right away.

This week alone, Sunwing has cut half of its remaining winter flights from Saskatoon and all winter flights out of Regina, leaving many plans upside down once again.

A Toronto-area community group says it has cash, jobs lined up and people ready to help two vulnerable Afghan families come to Canada, but it says the federal government is not moving fast enough to get the refugees out of danger.

Ontario's Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks has issued the City of Hamilton a provincial officer's order to improve the way it inspects its sewage system, after the recent discovery of two massive spills.

Preventing the poaching of staff is the top concern hospitals have about a new system of private clinics that will be used to cut the surgical backlog, the head of the province's hospital association said

Environment Canada has issued a freezing rain warning for Hamilton and Brantford which may impact the morning commute.

The death of a woman in the area of Kitty Murray Lane and Garner Road E. in Ancaster on Wednesday morning is being treated as "suspicious," Hamilton police say.

Ontario's integrity commissioner and auditor general both announced Wednesday that they would conduct separate investigations into the government's decision to open protected Greenbelt lands up to housing development.

Two people have been hospitalized — one in critical condition and the other with serious injuries — following a collision on the Toronto-bound Queen Elizabeth Way in Beamsville on Wednesday morning, Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) say.

More than two dozen The Bay locations across Canada will soon be home to Zellers stores, as the retailer has announced more details of its plan to resurrect the defunct discount brand both online and in physical stores.

A Brantford, Ont., man has been stranded in Chile without his custom wheelchair after his stepdaughter says Air Canada lost it.

Niagara Regional Police Service are looking for video from the explosion and fire that killed a worker at a hazardous waste facility in St. Catharines, Ont., as they continue to investigate the circumstances around the Jan. 12 incident.

A lawyer for one of the two people charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Const. Grzegorz Pierzchala says it's "too early" to make the decision over whether they should be granted bail.

A former Hamilton resident has been reunited with his beloved black cat, two months — and a major winter storm — after moving to Dundalk, Ont.