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Contractor fined $225,000 for building violations in Flamborough
The City of Hamilton is reminding residents to protect themselves by hiring only licensed contractors.
Landing zone for rising interest rates ‘sufficiently uncertain’: Stephen Poloz
Poloz noted Monday that there are also unknowns around this landing zone of three per cent — and it could change.
Vimy Ridge oak trees are being repatriated into a memorial in France
Vimy oaks have made the journey back to France, where they will grow in a new centennial park beside the Canadian National Vimy Memorial.
Feds promise $165 million in compensation after shortchanging 270,000 veterans
News of the error and compensation comes as Canadians across the country are preparing to mark Remembrance Day this Sunday.
Homelessness program detailed, Liberals to unveil anti-poverty law
The revamped homelessness strategy, dubbed “Reaching Home,” will come into force early next year, which is when cities will be able to apply for new funding.
Ottawa promises disabled veterans will receive $165 million in compensation after they were shortchanged for seven years
Veterans Affairs Canada miscalculated adjustments to the disability pensions of 270,000 veterans, RCMP members and their survivors between 2003 and 2010 because it didn’t properly account for a change in personal tax exemptions.
Elon Musk says his futuristic transportation tunnel in Los Angeles is disturbingly long
It seems to go on forever, snaking beneath suburban Hawthorne, California, like an underground waterslide.
Urban avian rivalry: Birds fight it out for food and shelter in big cities
Even when both species were well-adapted to city life, researchers found that the stronger species of the pair tended to let the weaker know that the town wasn’t big enough for the two of them.
Democrats’ hopes high for taking House, but nothing certain
The day of reckoning for American politics has nearly arrived.
Niagara man gets five-year sentence for sex offences against children
A Niagara man who posed sleeping young boys and took pornographic pictures of them broke down in tears after being sentenced to five years behind bars.
Mountain caribou in lower 48 states being sent to Canada due to failing breeding program
The Kalispel Tribe in Washington state has been involved in a breeding project to try and expand the herd, but the project failed.
Bruce McArthur could stand trial as early as September 2019: judge
McArthur, a self-employed landscaper who faces eight counts of first-degree murder, said nothing as Justice John McMahon laid out the anticipated timeline for the case.
Officials consider role of speed readings in Lion Air crash
Officials consider role of speed readings in Lion Air crash
Separatists kidnap 79 pupils in Cameroon’s restive northwest, refuse to release them until a new state is achieved
A video purporting to show the kidnapped students was released on social media from a group of men who call themselves “Amba boys,” a reference to the state of Ambazonia armed separatists want to establish in Cameroon’s Anglophone regions.
Iran president warns of ‘war situation’ as sanctions resume
The U.S. reimposed all sanctions Monday on Iran that once were lifted under its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, grinding further down on the Islamic Republic’s already-ailing economy in what President Hassan Rouhani described as a “war situation” now facing Tehran.
Federal government support for women entrepreneurs
Applications are due soon for two new funds created by the federal government to support women entrepreneurs.
The left is losing the battle of language
Trump may be a populist. But so was the NDP’s Tommy Douglas, writes Thomas Walkom
Dundas Community Policing Centre lease renewal still being negotiated
Existing lease exppires November 30
Dundas Valley deer hunt loses January leg
The Haudenosaunee and Hamilton Conservation Authority are shortening this year’s deer hunt in the Dundas Valley by eliminating the second leg after the Christmas break.
Photos and video: Burlington service honours sacrafice of Canada’s military
Poppies placed on veteran’s headstone at No Stone Left Alone Service of Remembrance
Patrick Deane leaving McMaster after 9 years as president
Deane will become principal at Queen’s University on July 1, 2019
Lowe’s closing 31 Canadian properties, 20 stores in U.S. amid restructuring
Lowe’s Companies Inc. is reducing its Canadian footprint by closing 31 properties across the country in a bid to streamline its business.
Stoney Creek's Baffin Inc. takes new direction under Canada Goose
Baffin Inc. will continue to operate as a stand-alone company out of its Stoney Creek headquarters.
Flash from the Past: Kitchener flier’s Great War fighting ends early
When last heard of in Flash from the Past, Flight Cadet Owen Thamer of the Royal Flying Corps Canada was about to leave Kitchener.
Hamilton Air Force Association's Dundas facility continues improvements
The Issue: Air force club's deteriorated outdoor wooden planes removed three years agoThe Impact: Passerby volunteers to help in latest example of ongoing improvements
Canadian Minister Jean-Yves-Duclos says government's homelessness strategy will be "transformational"
"The funding will now be more flexible, adapted to local priorities, local conditions," said Canadian Minister Jean-Yves Duclos.
Hamilton school board slows elementary renewal strategy
Hamilton’s public school board is slowing the pace of an eight-year renewal strategy for elementary schools to catch up on projects that are behind schedule.
Food flood at Neighbour to Neighbour Centre
Schools collect more than 100,000 pounds on Halloween night
British Airways apologizes after passengers stranded 3 days on London-bound flight
What should have been an eight-hour flight from Orlando to London on British Airways turned into a three-day travel nightmare for 250 passengers last week.
Child dies after being crushed by couch in Markham home
A 2-year-old boy was playing when a recliner fell on him, according to York Regional Police.
Can a dog walker handle 16 pooches alone?
At a recent visit to the Lakeside leash-free dog park, a Mississauga resident says his wife and his small dog were driven out of the park by a dog-walker handling as many as 17 dogs at a time, begetting the question – what are the rules and ethics around dog-walking and how many dogs should one person be allowed to handle, safely?
Losing the battle of language
The right has seized the language of social change. The left has allowed this to happen.
Search on for survivors as buildings collapse in French city
Two buildings collapsed into a giant pile of rubble and beams Monday in the southern French city of Marseille, leaving two people lightly hurt and authorities speaking of a race against time to find survivors possibly trapped in the ruins.
Man facing charges after woman complains she was unknowingly drugged
Ontario's provincial police say a man is facing charges after a woman alleged she had been unknowingly drugged.
Hamilton man reflects on racing career as he runs 100th marathon
A hundred marathons. He started in the 1980s, but slowly. In recent years Jim’s been stuffing them in — sometimes 12 a year
Lowe's closing 31 Canadian stores
Lowe's Companies Inc. says it plans to close 31 Canadian stores and other locations as part of a plan to focus on its most profitable operations.
Trump Jr. griped that CNN didn't run his dad's commercial. 'This ad is racist,' the network replied
Donald Trump Jr. had a grievance to air Saturday morning.
Newlyweds killed in helicopter crash hours after wedding
Family members say a Texas couple was killed in a helicopter crash just hours after they were married.
Alec Baldwin denies punching man in face over parking spot
Alec Baldwin is denying that he punched anyone over a parking spot and says an assault allegation is being reported "for the purposes of clickbait entertainment."
Global economy at stage where stimulus can be 'steadily withdrawn': Poloz
The governor of the Bank of Canada says after a decade of low-interest rates around the world the global economy has reached stronger footing where stimulus can be "steadily withdrawn."
Climate change is scary. A 'rat explosion' is way scarier
What's so scary about climate change?
Is this a form of financial abuse?
Q: I lived in a marriage where my ex withheld much needed money for me and my kids to get by. Now I see how the present Ford government is withholding money from women’s shelters in Hamilton and, I guess, in other areas of the province. I was told I was being abused financially by my ex and it made sense to me. Is this the same thing?
$15,000-worth of copper wire, tools stolen from storage site
Haldimand OPP investigating theft from sea container at Nanticoke work site
Drunk driving charge after car driven into Lake Ontario in Oakville
Halton police have charged a man with impaired driving and finding a vehicle on the shores of Lake Ontario in Oakville early Monday morning.
'Full Trumpism': President's apocalyptic attacks reach new level of falsehood
President Donald Trump is painting an astonishingly apocalyptic vision of America under Democratic control in the campaign's final days, unleashing a torrent of falsehoods and portraying his political opponents as desiring crime, squalor and poverty.
LABOUR LAW: Some job changes are OK, but too many can mean constructive dismissal
Making changes to someone’s terms of employment is always fraught with dangers for employers. Making those changes after persuading an employee to move their family is even more perilous.
‘He was crying, sweating’: A boxer’s daughter stares down his killer
“I never stared at somebody so long and so hard as I did that day,” Jessica Melo recalled of her meeting with Charles Gagne, the man who murdered her father, Eddie (Hurricane) Melo.
TRIPLE JEOPARDY: Drugs, jail, the street
Joshua Camara is falling through the cracks.
Justice sought for Welland teen killed in ATV crash
Jake Hughes' family is still seeking closure and justice six years after the 19-year-old's death.
Downtown Hamilton City Centre up for sale
Site billed for “mixed-use development”
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