From Joni to gentrification to joints — Yorkville, once the heart of the city’s counterculture scene, is being vetted for the city’s first legal cannabis store. Two other stores in Ontario could be coming to Brampton and St. Catharines.

Landlords are applauding the news that the province is looking at making it easier to evict renters. Tenant advocates say it’ll lead to more homelessness.

Lindon Barrett has curated “Voices in Black Canadian Narratives,” an exhibition at the RBC Community Gallery at the Art Gallery of Burlington honouring the work of local artists Joan Butterfield, Nicole Alexander and Ian P. Grant. The exhibit is part of two exhibitions the AGB is presenting as part of Black History Month. This exhibit, along with “Ears, Eyes, Voice: Black Canadian Photojournalists 1970s — 1990s,” will be on display at the AGB until March 31.

The owner of Pickwick Books in Waterdown is “shocked and disgusted” after a rare book was stolen on the weekend.

The Hamilton public board has cancelled schools and buses again Thursday after an ice storm rained down on the region.

Despite the weather, Hamilton police have only seen a couple of crashes so far

The provincial Ministry of Labour is evaluating the safety complaint that resulted in a work stoppage involving close to 60 people.

Convicted of sexual offences on boy, 12, Stoney Creek woman still took job at Binbrook Fair

Study looks at economic benefit of longer North Rim season

Yellowstone National Park records third-busiest year

City has previously told the public friction testing was “inconclusive” in response to complaints about slippery parkway.

City has previously told the public friction testing was “inconclusive” in response to complaints about slippery parkway.

The political crisis in Virginia spun out of control Wednesday when the state’s attorney general confessed to putting on blackface in the 1980s and a woman went public with detailed allegations of sexual assault against the lieutenant governor.

The provincial Ministry of Labour is evaluating the safety complaint that resulted in a work stoppage involving close to 60 people.

West Plains Bistro takes home top honours for their Field mushroom soup

Community members lobbied in vain for council to diversify all-white, mostly male hiring committee Wednesday.

The six-month research program that starts in April will combine Bell’s broadband networks, IBM data analytics and data from sensors placed in various parts of the city of 355,000 residents, northeast of Toronto.

Vehicle involved in collision after interaction with Norfolk County OPP

Ford government doubles funding for diagnostic hubs and vows to clear the 23,000-child wait list within the next 18 months.

Canada was one of the few countries to respond to a request from UN in December 2017.

Canada was one of the few countries to respond to a request from UN in December 2017.

Wyoming bill allows takeover of national parks in shutdown

The Hamilton Roundtable For Poverty Reduction is holding a special information session geared to participants in Ontario’s Basic Income program from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 7 at the Hamilton Public Library, Central Branch, 55 York Blvd. Because social assistance in Ontario is changing dramatically with the cancellation of the Basic Income program, the roundtable is putting on the session to help with the transition.

‘With my ice scraper I had finally hit the magic sweet spot in the glazed-on ice,’ he writes of this rare moment of northern bliss

Sept. 30 might become a new statutory holiday commemorating victims of residential schools.

The U.S. will continue to lead the fight against Islamic State militants in the Middle East, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo insisted Wednesday — notwithstanding President Donald Trump's apparent impatience to get American soldiers out of Syria.

Sgt. Paul Gauthier is charged with insubordination and neglect of duty

A 2010 study says the economic impact of big snowstorms on Ontario is $473 million a day

Ministry of Labour currently dealing with work stoppage of 60 people

Ice accumulation will likely range between five and 15 millimetres in impacted areas, meteorologist Peter Kimbell said.

Six Nations police were called to 6th Line for an injured male last month, OPP say

The iPad may lose its favoured status as the Hamilton public school board prepares to finalize a five-year rollout of the Apple tablet in grades 4 to 12 this September.

The changes include giving funding for treatment directly to families instead of regional service providers, dependent on age, with up to $140,000 for a child in treatment from the ages of two to 18.

Vatican spokesman Alessandro Gisotti said Wednesday Francis “spoke of ‘sexual slavery’ to mean ‘manipulation’ or a type of abuse of power that is reflected in a sexual abuse.”

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump's warning about "ridiculous" congressional investigations during his State of the Union address showed that "he's scared" and has "something to hide."

The migrants arrived on buses Monday in Piedras Negras, Mexico, across the Rio Grande from Eagle Pass, Texas. The caravan is the first in recent months to head toward Texas instead of California.

A suspect in the fire that killed 10 people as it devastated a Paris apartment building has been hospitalized at least 13 times in the past decade for mental issues, the Paris prosecutor said Wednesday.

A veteran Canadian Pacific Railway engineer says railroaders are supporting each other after a derailment in the Rocky Mountains this week claimed three of their own.

Aphria’s board unanimously recommended the rejection after a committee reviewed the unsolicited offer, it said Wednesday.

Canada’s largest real estate board is calling on Ottawa to revisit whether a stricter mortgage stress test introduced last year is still needed, arguing that the policy has negatively impacted the economy and Toronto’s once red-hot housing market.

Snow blankets Utah as winter storms pounds West

The Burlington Chamber of Commerce’s Women in Leadership Network is holding a session on bullying and harassment in the workplace Feb. 20.

Ford government doubling funding for diagnostic hubs and vowing to clear up the 23,000-child wait-list within the next 18 months.

Despite the weather, Hamilton police have only seen a couple of crashes so far

General Motors posted an $8.1 billion net profit for 2018, fuelled by better prices for vehicles sold in the U.S., its most lucrative market.

The boy's father, who shared custody with his estranged wife, discovered what was going on when he caught his son trying to smoke catnip in his basement and the boy confessed

Due to today’s freezing rain conditions, the City of Hamilton is advising residents that waste collection is progressing slower than usual.

The 17-year-old Supryka, who scored his first OHL goal last weekend, was a stick boy for the Belleville Bulls before the franchise was sold and moved to Hamilton.

Premier Doug Ford’s government is looking at ways to make it easier for landlords to evict tenants by shortening the waiting periods for eviction notices and allowing private bailiffs to remove renters, the Star has learned.

Venezuela: Denial of food is a human rights crime