Stewart will take on the role Aug. 1

Hamilton councillors approved the proposed 25-kilometre Mountain Brow multi-use trail that will eventually be built across the mountain. However, it will take at least $9 million over 20 years to build the pathway, linking communities from Ward 6 to Ward 9 along the top of the Niagara Escarpment.

Ontario’s new Progressive Conservative government introduced legislation on Monday that would give it sweeping new powers over executive compensation at Hydro One.

Under mounting pressure from opposition MPs, the House of Commons immigration committee will meet at least two times before early August to study the simmering issue of asylum seekers crossing into Canada from the United States.

An explosion caused by lava oozing into the ocean sent molten rock crashing through the roof of a sightseeing boat off Hawaii’s Big Island, injuring 23 people Monday, officials said.

With less than two weeks until the deadline for nominations to run in the Oct. 22 municipal election, races are shaping up in four of Fort Erie’s six council wards. Each ward will elect one councillor.

“We are going to be preparing our students and preparing them for the realities of 2018 and we’re going to be embracing what was being taught in 2014,” Education Minister Lisa Thompson said.

Maria Butina allegedly met with U.S. politicians and candidates, attended events sponsored by special interest groups and organized Russian-American “friendship and dialogue” dinners, with the goal of “reporting back to Moscow”

Members say Stoney Creek United Church has started the process of finding a new home.

Ontario sex-ed curriculum will still teach some modern themes: minister

Police ID victim in Oakville, Ont., shooting, say attack was targeted

The City of Burlington is delivering a brochure version of its publication “City Talk” to homes this week. The theme is “7 things to know about Burlington’s new official plan.” The brochure gives a high-level look at what the plan means for Burlington, including city design, jobs, housing, transportation, rural area, parks and neighbourhoods.

American federal prosecutors revealed Monday that they have arrested a 29-year-old woman and accused her of acting as a covert agent inside the U.S. on behalf of a senior Kremlin official.

Ontario’s trade minister will travel to Washington this week to defend the province’s auto industry at a U.S. Department of Commerce hearing.

Proposed London, Ont., bylaw changes aimed at harassing speech on street

Lundin Mining to make restructured $1.4-billion cash offer for Nevsun Mining

Protesters camped outside Saskatchewan legislature taking province to court

Ontario’s death investigations system is still not ideally equipped to pick up on patterns of unusual deaths in long-term care homes due to lack of compliance with existing regulations and gaps in those rules that allow cases to fall through the cracks, the province’s chief coroner said Monday.

A federal judge on Monday ordered a temporary halt to any deportations of immigrant families who were reunited after being separated by the Trump administration at the border.

Hamilton Ticat centre Mike Filer gives running backs coach Corey Grant a spray of cold water during practice at Tim Horton's Field Monday. The Tiger-Cats will meet the Sasketchewan Rough Riders this Thursday night at home.

Hamilton has scheduled what is being billed as a “steel summit” this September.

The Burlington Chamber of Commerce is holding a “Business Before 9” event July 19 at UltraStor.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited a southern Israeli town bordering Gaza on Monday that was pummeled with rockets from the strip over the weekend and told community leaders there that Israel is engaged in a “lengthy battle.”

The United States says it’s firing back at the Canadian government’s recent retaliatory tariffs on American imports, by launching a formal challenge with the World Trade Organization.

The 34-year-old died on June 29, 2017

The Ministry of Labour is still investigating a construction worker’s death during a city sewer project in upper Stoney Creek last month.

Mother of girls shot at playground calls for community programs to stop gun crime

Hundreds of Arctic glaciers shrinking; many likely to disappear: study

U.S. hits back with WTO challenge against Canada's retaliatory tariffs

The memorial, estimated to cost about $900,000, will be located at the northeast corner of Gage Park near the Main Street East side of the park.

Pembroke, Ont., man, 22, charged with abusing dog, OPP say

Education Minister Lisa Thompson reiterated the updated 2015 syllabus is being scrapped, she insisted issues of consent, gender, same-sex relationships, and cyber safety would still be taught this fall.

Kingsway Financial Services Inc. has signed a deal to sell its non-standard auto insurance business to Premier Holdings, LLC.

Toronto board of health to consider report recommending drug decriminalization

Ray Emery’s time spent in the Golden Horseshoe Junior Hockey League was cut short because of how good he was.

Opposition MPs push for urgent summer study of asylum seekers surge

Former CIA director John Brennan called the president’s comments “treasonous.”

Ontario trade minister heads to Washington to defend auto industry

From Chinese bank notes to Israeli high-tech, Chad Wasilenkoff has tried to break into markets around the world to diversify the Vancouver-based business he founded.

Memorial site: Alberta apologizes to families for cleaning up plane wreckage

Fifteen drinking taps at Hamilton public schools have been taken out of service — including two apiece at Ancaster Senior and Dundas Central — following the latest round of lead testing.

Indigenous housing providers raise alarms about future of federal funding deals

Trump and Putin “spent a great deal of time” discussing allegations of Russian election meddling as they met for several hours Monday, the U.S. president said.

OPP warn about designer drug Flakka; say it may be combined with other drugs

Motorcyclist, 64, killed in collision with SUV in West Perth, Ont.

"My community has given me a very strong indication they don't support this," said Ancaster Coun. Lloyd Ferguson.

Ontario sex-ed curriculum will still teach some modern themes: minister

Trump, Putin sit down a bit late for closely watched summit

Jeff Bezos is the richest person in modern history.

“If the sex ed curriculum ... was in schools when my daughter was alive, she’d still be alive,” says Glen Canning, who’s joined a campaign to fight for the recently scrapped curriculum.