“I am requesting my appointment as commissioner be postponed until as such time the integrity commissioner has completed his review,” Ron Taverner said in statement issued Saturday.

Wild early morning ride leads to long list of charges

U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke will leave the administration at year’s end, President Donald Trump said Saturday.

Weighing in at 552 carats, the yellow diamond was recovered at the Diavik Diamond Mine, located in Northern Canada about 135 miles south of the Arctic Circle.

Coun. Sam Merulla may hold off on introducing his motion Dec. 18 that would see the city opt out of allowing cannabis dispensaries operating within its borders until a proper revenue-sharing agreement is set between cities and the province.Merul

Hamilton Coun. Sam Merulla may hold off on introducing his motion Dec. 18 that would see the city opt out of allowing cannabis dispensaries operating within its borders until a proper revenue-sharing agreement is set between cities and the province.

Leadership of the Independent Senators’ Group has argued that their role must be explicitly spelled out and guaranteed in the Parliament of Canada Act.

Egypt has announced the discovery of a private tomb belonging to a senior official from the 5th dynasty of the pharaohs, which ruled roughly 4,400 years ago.

Robert Mueller’s filing comes four days before national security adviser Michael Flynn gets sentenced on a charge of lying to the FBI about his conversations with the then-Russian ambassador to the United States.

MILTON - A 77-year-old man from Rockwood is in life-threatening condition after his pick-up truck left the roadway and ended up on its roof at the bottom of a 50-foot embankment in rural Milton Friday afternoon.

German rail operator, union agree on new wage package

10 die of suspected food poisoning at Indian temple ceremony

A cardiac surgeon at Hamilton Health Sciences was allegedly prescribing vast amounts of antibiotics with more than triple the number of patients than normal receiving the medicine after surgery.

Cardiac surgeons at Hamilton Health Sciences were so divided that hospital leaders initiated an internal review of the department.

Cocaine and suspected fentanyl mixed with heroin found in Niagara investigation, police say.

City councillors will discuss whether to allow legal cannabis dispensaries in Hamilton on Tuesday. The province has given cities until Jan. 22 to decide whether to allow newly legalized private marijuana stores in their communities.The meeting is slated to begin at 9:30 a.m. in city council chambers, 71 Main St. W.

The Ontario government is planning an emergency session next week to pass legislation that would prevent power workers from going on strike.

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The move came Friday, after Ontario ombudsman Paul Dubé turned down a request earlier in the week from Interim Commissioner Brad Blair to probe “potential political interference” in the appointment.

Half the 3,000 Oshawa GM workers eligible to retire, the other half have to scramble to survive

The blaze sparked by a welding torch caved in part of the building over a truck repair firm and left a neighbouring waterproofing business looking for temporary new digs.

Haldimand County OPP are investigating a late-night fire on Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation that left a treatment centre in ruins.

Although the resolutions are largely symbolic — because it’s unclear if they will be considered by the House — their passage Thursday showed senators seeking to assert oversight of Trump administration foreign policy and the relationship with Saudi Arabia.

Canadian household debt is a tiny bit higher higher in the third quarter.

Rapid rehousing initiative seen as way to tackle uptick.

The police services board in Thunder Bay was disbanded and an administrator appointed in its place on Friday after a report found relations between the force and the city’s Indigenous community were in a crisis that constitute an “emergency.”

Some B.C. fish farms to close or move in bid to help wild salmon recover

A lawsuit alleging the Ontario government has been arbitrarily making thousands of mentally disabled people wait indefinitely for provincial government supports after they turn 18 was certified as a class action on Friday.

The cuts announced by Premier Rachel Notley earlier this month are intended to bring industry output in line with pipeline capacity to drain trapped oil from the western Canadian market and reduce resulting steep discounts for crude oil.

The Supreme Court of Canada has struck down a law that forced people convicted of crimes to pay surcharges that help victims, saying the mandatory fee amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.

A frustration of contract is an avenue to explore.

MILTON - A 78-year-old man is in life-threatening condition after his pick-up truck left the roadway and ended up on its roof at the bottom of a 50-foot embankment in rural Milton Friday afternoon.

Commuter GO trains between Niagara Falls and Toronto will start rolling through the Region next months, some four years ahead of schedule.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday he expects Canadian diplomats will be granted access “shortly” to the second Canadian detained in China.

The former head of cardiac surgery at Hamilton Health Sciences alleges she was discriminated against because of her gender.

The police services board in Thunder Bay was disbanded and an administrator appointed in its place on Friday after a report found relations between the force and the city’s Indigenous community were in a crisis that constitute an “emergency.”

In the words of president Melanie Teed-Murch, Toys “R” Us Canada is “open for business and here to play, here to stay.”

More than half a million dollars spilled from an armoured truck onto a New Jersey highway, and nearly US$300,000 remains missing a day later, police said Friday.

Shaken and facing a prison term, U.S. President Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer said Friday that Trump directed him to buy the silence of two women during the 2016 campaign because he was concerned their stories of alleged affairs with him “would affect the election.” He says Trump knew the payments were wrong.

A fourth victim of Tuesday night’s attack on the biggest Christmas market in France died Friday.

They guard the truth, writes Paul Berton.

Analysis from the Annenberg Public Policy Center shows that U.S. newspapers have consistently promoted the false story line that suicide rates surge around the holidays, but November and December perennially have the lowest rates of daily suicides.

The Russian Orthodox Church on Friday called on the United Nations, the leaders of Germany and France, the Pope and other spiritual leaders to protect believers in Ukraine in the face of pressure on Moscow-affiliated clerics.

General Motors of Canada Co. is working to set up jobs and training programs for employees who will be put out of work when it closes the Oshawa Assembly plant next year even as Unifor promises an extended fight to keep the operation open.

Belgrade calls the move the “most direct threat to peace and stability in the region.”

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The Issue: Owner of 211 York Rd. applied for a rezoning to expand an existing retirement home.The Impact: The plan adds 66 new retirement home suites, removes a neighbourhood commercial use, and provides 38 parking spaces for a total of 100 residential spaces.

Shirley McAlary said the city of about 67,000 people has a great quality of life, and city council, the public and the media need to tell a positive story to convince others to move there.

From Trump to #MeToo, publishing made headlines in 2018