Candy inside a package of DOTS gumdrops was replaced with three small white cubes

Still ground to cover after second day of testimony in Stoney Creek Towers rental hike case.

Police made several arrests on Friday as chanting protesters delayed the start of a Toronto debate featuring Steve Bannon, the former strategist who helped Donald Trump win the White House, and conservative commentator David Frum.

Ontario’s premier’s office says Jim Wilson has resigned his cabinet post to “seek treatment for addiction issues.”

Joshua Camara is falling through the cracks.

St. John’s Lutheran Church started The Reconciling Circle in an effort to draw attention to Indigenous and treaty issues, with an emphasis on listening, Jeff Mahoney writes.

Domestic: 5

It wasn’t too long ago that Tracy Levy counted herself among the ranks of Hamilton’s homeless.

The city and its partners are working on a system that keeps better tabs on people and diverts them into housing at the shelter door.

A rally on Parliament Hill meant to protest the transfer of a child-killer from a prison to an Indigenous healing lodge veered quickly into complaints about the national carbon tax, veterans’ benefits and the federal deficit.

IGeriCare is having a live question-and-answer session on Facebook Nov. 7 at 1 p.m. The web-streamed event is on “Understanding & Managing Responsive Behaviours in Persons with Dementia.” IGericare is a free online program developed at McMaster to provide education about dementia. For information, visit facebook.com/HealthHQ.ca/.

Canada’s largest oil refiner is planning to replace about 63 kilometres of pipeline that runs from Waterdown to Toronto.

It’s rather fitting that Rick Hodge spoke his final words as a radio host from The White House on Friday. After all, it was from that Yates Street house, which doubles as a radio station, that his voice was first transmitted over the airwaves nearly 50 years ago.

Ottawa remains confident in its assisted-dying legislation, and doesn’t plan changes despite a Halifax woman’s deathbed plea, federal Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould said Friday.

A committee tasked with getting to the bottom of the previous Liberal government’s accounting practices has achieved very little, an Opposition legislator sitting on the panel dominated by Premier Doug Ford’s Tories said Friday.

Toronto police say some of the men believed to be victims of alleged serial killer Bruce McArthur can now be laid to rest.

OTTAWA — Canada’s unemployment rate has edged back down to its four-decade low of 5.8 per cent — but even in a job market that’s having a hard time finding workers, wage growth is continuing to slow.

The Burlington Chamber of Commerce is holding a 2018 YPN Social on Nov. 7 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

New details about the crashed Lion Air jet’s previous flight cast more doubt on the Indonesian airline’s claim to have fixed technical problems, as hundreds of personnel searched the sea for a fifth day Friday for victims and the plane’s fuselage.

Hamilton’s public school board will spend just $2 million of $11 million earmarked for the fourth year of a high school renewal strategy and bank the balance as its contribution toward rebuilding Sherwood.

Good journalism doesn’t come cheap

A fight between a bus driver and a passenger who missed her stop caused the bus to plunge off a high bridge into China’s Yangtze River, police said Friday. All 15 people on board are presumed dead.

The summertime purchase of three ships from Sweden has wiped out Canada’s healthy trade surplus for August and replaced it with a deficit, Statistics Canada said Friday.

Prominent Pakistani cleric Maulana Samiul Haq, also known as the “father of the Taliban,” was killed in a knife attack at his home in the garrison city of Rawalpindi on Friday, his family and police said.

The main caravan of Central American migrants spent a rain-drenched night outside before continuing their slow walk through southern Mexico, on a path that is taking them toward the Gulf of Mexico and the U.S. border.

Johnston family learns details of their Memorial Plaque 100 years later

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.

Former Dundas resident convicted on four sex assault counts in 2016

Old favourites, impressive newcomers and at least one Stratford Festival legend will be on the Shaw Festival’s four stages next season.

It’s rather fitting that Rick Hodge spoke his final words as a radio host from The White House on Friday. After all, it was from that Yates Street house, which doubles as a radio station, that his voice was first transmitted over the airwaves nearly 50 years ago.

Hamilton’s public school board won’t make 11th-hour changes to plans for the Memorial replacement school in Stoney Creek after learning it would push back construction by half a year.

The City of Hamilton is seeking input from Ancaster residents about planning for future communities.

We know almost nothing about the health effects of something most of us probably eat every day: plastic.

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Carbon pricing is the most efficient, lowest-cost means of fighting climate change, writes David Olive

In this age of identity theft and massive data breaches, the leader of the country appears to be offside on data privacy, writes Jennifer Wells.

A North Carolina couple didn't have to eat the fresh-caught shrimp they bought a few weeks after hurricane Florence to find out something was wrong with them.

Man threatened to stab grocery store employee with a needle

Story behind the storyMohawk College is looking to attract more private sector research funding.

Joanne O’Reilly appears to rein in her dogs Thursday morning along Herkimer Street. Molly and Maggie best keep their raincoats handy as more precipitation is in the forecast Friday with a high of 9 C.

A 22-year-old Scarborough, Ontario man and a 23-year-old Markham man have been charged with assault following a scuffle early Thursday morning at a George Street North nightclub.

Some clothing was stolen during a break-in at a store on Charlotte Street in downtown Peterborough on Thursday night, city police said.

A young Mississauga man has been charged with breach of trust after a joint investigation between Peel Regional Police and the Government of Ontario.

Phone makers promise "all-day battery life." Sure, and you haven't stolen any of the kids' Halloween candy.

The provincial ombudsman says he is being swamped with complaints about the Ontario Cannabis Store.

JAL pilot admits being almost 10 times over alcohol limit

When Hershey's debuted a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup that will be 40 per cent thinner than the original, the company said "consumers love Reese's in all shapes and sizes."

Leilani Estates residents weigh options to control access