Odds are that you have had moments of frustration trying to open new bottles of Aspirin or other over-the-counter medications. Perhaps your fingernails are not up to the task of breaking the seal on the plastic wrap. Or maybe the pop-up cap is a challenge, seemingly designed to be not only childproof but also adultproof. The foil covering the lip of the bottle may defy neat tearing. Then you struggle to remove every wisp of the cotton wad standing between you and the medicine.

Tsuyoshi Matsushita didn't know Cristiano Ronaldo or Madonna at all, but he somehow got in touch with them and persuaded them to be the faces of his products.

It was just a coincidence, but Thomas Larabee and his mother Francine arrived in Hamilton on Father’s Day. Three months ago.

Scaling Emmy heights is tough in the era of so-called peak TV, with the volume of shows matched by lofty expectations from academy voters.

Hamiltonians visiting ED for marijuana overdoses more than tripled in six years while mental health issues due to cannabis also on the rise.

Road safety advocates claim the decision not to lay criminal charges in case shows a “culture of accepting aggression” on the part of drivers

Premier Doug Ford has said he will freeze the minimum wage — scheduled to go up January 2019 — at $14 an hour.

Driver, 17, attempted to pass vehicle occupied by 29-year-old mother, 2-year-old and 3-week-old children, police say

Clark — who died at 86 on Aug. 27 — volunteered with many boards and donated money to worthy causes

The extended four-day event maybe the biggest party to have ever hit the downtown core

Ont. legislature sits for midnight debate of Toronto city council cutting bill

Amber Alert issued for six-year-old girl police say was abducted in Saskatchewan

SIU investigating police shooting during incident in Windsor, Ont.

The new state-of-the art Halton police headquarters will be officially open to the public next week.

Some members of legal community oppose Ontario's use of notwithstanding clause

A Russian-Canadian member of the protest group Pussy Riot is being treated in Berlin after falling severely ill, with fellow activists alleging he was poisoned.

The prognosis for U.S. President Donald Trump and his party was grim.

As Ontario’s legislature prepared to hold a rare midnight sitting to debate a bill that would cut the size of Toronto city council, some members of the province’s legal community called on the attorney general to not support the government’s move to overrule a court decision striking down an earlier version of the legislation.

Liberals keen to pass bill to advance CPTPP amid NAFTA uncertainty

Catastrophic flooding from Florence spread across the Carolinas on Sunday, with roads to Wilmington cut off by the epic deluge and muddy river water swamping entire neighbourhoods kilometres inland. “The risk to life is rising with the angry waters,” Gov. Roy Cooper declared as the storm’s death toll climbed to 16.

Goodwill is hosting a Community Open House and Showcase on Sept. 26 from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Goodwill, Amity Group, 225 King William St. The event will focus on Goodwill’s mission to Change Lives through the Power of Work, offering tours of the organization’s training and support areas: Employment Services; the Thrift Store Retail and Recycling;Commercial Services and Shredding; and the Stairways Café and Catering.

Friends of Gage and of Burns memorial worry about firefighters memorial; city tries to reassure, Jeff Mahoney writes

In July, 1945, Argylls Pte. Don McIsaac wrote a touching letter to his wife in Hamilton, saying he was finally coming home from Holland. Now that letter has resurfaced, and the regiment wants to return it to his family.

Women lead trucking industry charge to get more female big-riggers behind wheel

Legault in hot seat after incorrectly answering question on immigration

A U.S. Border Patrol supervisor was jailed Sunday on $2.5-million bond in Texas, accused in the killing of at least four women and of injuring a fifth who managed to escape.

British police closed roads and called in a hazardous response team Sunday night after two people became ill at a restaurant in the English city where a Russian ex-spy and his daughter were poisoned with a chemical nerve agent.

Chrystia Freeland was not happy.

Montreal looking for answers after string of accidents involving pedestrians

A 40-year-old Hamilton man faces charges in connection with an armed robbery at a bank in Stoney Creek earlier this month.

Monument honouring Polish immigrants erected at Pier 21 in Halifax

Ottawa police accidentally release confidential documents on death investigation

One worker dead after being trapped in derailed train in Manitoba

For a small group of American black families escaping racist Jim Crow laws a century ago, building a church in their new home in Saskatchewan was a priority.

Along Montreal’s Saint-Laurent Boulevard are rows of greystone and red-bricked buildings dating from the early 20th century, many of which used to house businesses owned by first-generation Jewish immigrants who didn’t speak French very well.

A monument honouring the Polish-Canadian community has been erected in Halifax.

Russian-Canadian Pussy Riot member treated in Berlin for suspected poisoning

Typhoon Mangkhut barrelled into southern China on Sunday, killing two people, after lashing the Philippines with strong winds and heavy rain that left at least 64 dead and dozens more feared buried in a landslide.

Many families with starving children in an isolated pocket of northern Yemen have no food except the boiled leaves of local wild vine.

Urn containing ashes of child allegedly stolen from a business in Midland

Two hospitalized after irritant sprayed at Hamilton house party, police say

Fruitland Road resident Teresa DiFalco couldn’t run against Ward 10 Coun. Maria Pearson again because of other commitments. But she still wanted to participate in the 2018 municipal campaign.So when Louie Milojevic, 37, asked her to run his Ward

Man dead after accidentally falling off bridge in Toronto's east end, police say

New Brunswick's fiscal reckoning looms as the province heads to the polls

Saskatchewan church built by early black settlers receives heritage designation

Five things to watch for in the Canadian business world in the coming week

Inquiry into Muskrat Falls megaproject 'boondoggle' to begin in Labrador

No winning ticket for Saturday night's $16.4 million Lotto 649 jackpot

NOAA calls off active search for sick endangered killer whale dubbed J50

NDP's Jagmeet Singh set to run in B.C.'s Burnaby South riding after nomination