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Ezra Marfo's passed away Friday Sept 16, but his father Jacob and local Hamilton communities will continue the toddler's legacy by continuing Swabs4Ezra donor campaign.

While some travellers say they'll be glad when they no longer have to use the ArriveCAN app when entering Canada, others say there might still be some use for the tool.

Eugene Lewis broke the 1,000-yard mark scoring the game-winning touchdown as the Montreal Alouettes grabbed a 23-16 win over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on Friday.

Some Hindus and Sikhs in Ontario are not pleased with the date of this year's municipal election, especially some of the candidates, because people are set to cast ballots on the main day for the religious festival of Diwali in October.

The francophone community in Hamilton started Franco Ontarian Day celebrations by raising the Franco-Ontario flag on Thursday, but the day came with a bit of controversy.

There have been plenty of promises about what candidates will do if elected, but what is actually in their power?

Four months after the body of a girl, between the age of 10 months and two-years old, was found in the Grand River near Dunnville, Ont., police still don't know who she is or how she died.

A Niagara-area school is auditing the materials of a teacher who's facing "disciplinary action" after a student was sent home with a worksheet showing two cartoon characters in stereotypical Indigenous clothing, including feathered headbands.

Gavin Stephens came to Hamilton during what he said was "the whole 'Art is the new steel' era. "I thought it meant a change deeper than slogans. Needless to say, I was very naive," he writes.

Some long COVID patients suffering symptoms including fatigue and shortness of breath are showing signs of autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and lupus, suggests a McMaster University study that builds on similar findings elsewhere.

Ontario is reporting 65 new deaths linked to COVID-19 as the number of children under the age of five getting vaccinated against the virus is even lower than the relatively low number many experts had expected.

The city of Hamilton has resumed cleaning Chedoke Creek and, despite a request, won't consult the local Haudenosaunee community, on whose traditional lands the creek sits, before the dredging begins again.

Marineland and a former employee, who had been accused of plotting to steal an almost 800-pound walrus, have worked out their decade-long legal battle: The Niagara Falls, Ont., theme park has dropped a $1.5-million lawsuit against activist Philip Demers, and Smooshi and her calf will be rehoused.

The number of households who rent their homes has grown twice as fast as the number of those who own, newly released census data has revealed.

The number of people identifying as Indigenous in Canada grew almost twice as fast as the non-Indigenous population and now stands at 1.8 million — about five per cent of the population — according to newly released census data.

Thousands of mourners including family members, police officers and Ontario politicians lined the halls of the Toronto Congress Centre Wednesday to celebrate the life of slain Toronto police officer Const. Andrew Hong.

The federal government’s pandemic border measures — including random testing for vaccinated travellers — could be coming to an end soon. It still might not be soon enough for many travellers and tourism operators.

A group of MPs and border-city mayors is calling on the Canadian and U.S. governments to lift COVID-19 restrictions at the border.

The Red Hill Valley Parkway will close the Greenhill Ave. on-ramp for the next month to allow the maintenance of a local stormwater management pond.

World No. 1 Gerwyn (The Iceman) Price of Wales survived a scare from Canadian Matt (Ginja Ninja) Campbell before prevailing 6-5 Saturday to advance to the quarterfinals of the 300,000-pound ($454,535) Jack's World Series of Darts Finals.

Ahead of the election, these Hamilton residents are reflecting on the issues they think are missing from campaign conversations or need underscoring. Get to know the group: Gavin Stephens, Anabelle Ragsag, Sonia Hill, Rain Hye, Shayyan Husein and Mohamad Bsat.

The most expensive service in the city budget is by far that of the police. Yet, we don’t bat an eye? Why? As the municipal election nears, Mohamad Bsat argues Hamilton should be talking about it.

Eight-year-old Maks was four when he started walking. Recently, his "proud" family saw him tackle a climbing tower as part of an Alpine Tower Rec Showcase in Hamilton. The event, organized by the Developmental Pediatrics and Rehabilitation (DPR) department at Ron Joyce Children's Health Centre, drew 200 people to McMaster University.

The City of Burlington is asking residents to "continue being vigilant" after reporting a seventh coyote attack in the past month.

In lieu of a provincial holiday, Ontario has declared Monday a Day of Mourning to coincide with the queen's state funeral, held earlier today in London.

Paul Roos has been living with chronic pain for the last 10 years — a direct result of injuries he sustained while serving as an infantry officer in the Canadian Armed Forces. In August, Roos joined other veterans in a hike to bring awareness to the issue of chronic pain.

Queen Elizabeth, Britain's longest-reigning monarch, was mourned and celebrated at a funeral service at London's Westminster Abbey before a private service at St. George's Chapel.

Hundreds of people braved the rain on Sunday to call on the federal government to grant permanent status to all undocumented people in Canada.

Interval House Hamilton says that they are experiencing a high number of women seeking their services, to the point where they are over capacity and having to house women in their office spaces, or relocate them to shelters in other cities.

Ontario is expected to make funding decisions for a long COVID strategy in the near future, the province's top doctor says, as health officials work to create standard definitions and treatment protocols.

An LGBTQ-friendly softball league in Hamilton has joined the North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance, becoming the only Hamilton sports league and just the third in Canada to be part of the alliance.

Queen Elizabeth’s funeral on Monday will follow an elaborate and precisely detailed plan — one the monarch will have signed off on herself.

Dane Evans threw a career-high five touchdown passes to lead the Hamilton Tiger-Cats to a stunning 48-31 home win over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on Saturday afternoon.

For more than two years, research teams across the country — and around the world — have been using human waste to monitor rising and falling SARS-CoV-2 levels. The same sewage surveillance systems can track pathogens from polio to monkeypox. So what's the future of wastewater testing?

Tracking weekly flyer specials, loyalty point programs, and member pricing can all help when it comes to buying groceries amid soaring inflation. But there is another lesser known way to find the best price for what you need to buy: unit pricing. So why isn't it mandatory in Canada?

Brian Boyle, 53, admitted to abusing four teenaged students between June 2002 and November 2015 while working as their teacher.

Burlington city councillors unanimously supported bolstering its coyote response strategy on Wednesday after a string of coyote attacks over the past three weeks.

A new hovercraft service could cut travel time between Toronto and the Niagara Region down to 30 minutes.

Hundreds gathered on Argyle Street in Hamilton for an early Halloween and a parade this week to help a terminally ill five-year-old fulfil his wish to see monsters.

Ontario's police watchdog says there was likely a shootout in the Hamilton Cemetery before police killed the 40-year-old suspect in Monday's gun violence in the Greater Toronto Area that left an officer and another man dead.

The arguments for and against a permanent injunction at a controversial development in Caledonia, also referred to as 1492 Land Back Lane, ended this week. Now lawyers for Foxgate Developments and demonstrator Skyler Williams are waiting for the judge's final decision.

If there was an election for mayor coming up and only ducks could run (waddle?) for office, Lewis Mallard would be a shoo-in.

A stem cell swab testing event is being held at a local Hamilton church as part of a Canada-wide search for a donor match for an Alberta toddler with leukemia.

Hamilton city councillors unanimously passed a new bylaw designed to prevent the mayhem seen at last year's "fake homecoming" event near McMaster University which saw numerous people arrested and a car get flipped over.

The regional coroner says the inquest into the death of Devon Freeman — an Indigenous teenager whose body was found just metres from a group home months after he was reported missing — will begin on Sept. 26.

Two members of the St. Catharines anti-racism advisory committee have resigned, citing city council's "consistent lack of support."

Brantford's chief of police is investigating how his officers could have raided the wrong home while carrying out a drug trafficking investigation.

Here's what mayoral candidates have put out publicly so far to get votes on Oct. 24.

Canadian Individual Slam Poetry champion Eddie Lartey delivers a spoken word performance from CBC Hamilton's office during Supercrawl.