The Hamilton International Guitar Festival and Competition takes place Friday to Sunday at the Hamilton Conservatory for the Arts, 126 James St. S., 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Festival registration: $160; festival and competition: $170; competition only: $70. Concert admission $10 to $25. More at guitarhamilton.com/festival-season or email guitarhamilton247@gmail.com.

If you liken the number of pot shops in Hamilton to the proliferation of Tim Hortons, you’re on to something.

Veteran NDP MP David Christopherson says he will not seek re-election next year after more than three decades of public life.

Ontario residents, and not the newly elected Progressive Conservative government, will receive the proceeds of a carbon price imposed on the province by the federal government, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday.

The cost to build the new city-owned Brock Mission homeless shelter has increased by $3.2 million to $10.7 million — but on Monday, city council will vote a final time not to immediately cover the overrun.

TTC peer support program helps workers who witness subway suicides

A new Statistics Canada report suggests the majority of human trafficking victims in Canada are women and girls younger than 25, while most of the people charged with the crimes are men between 18 and 34.

As the temperatures outside get warmer, police say the reported number of cases of voyeurism tend to rise.

The Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed a request by killer Haiden Suarez Noa to allow an appeal on a decision that overturned his manslaughter conviction and put him on trial again.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s first official meeting with Ontario’s newly elected premier started with a friendly handshake Thursday, but it was clear the two leaders were miles apart when it comes to Ottawa’s handling of the recent surge in asylum seekers.

Two new summer camps are giving young people a chance to get creative using technology.

Budget surplus results in $68 checks for thousands in town

Decision up for final approval Monday after girl hit by car near school in November

The union representing health-care professionals and other workers at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton’s psychiatric forensic unit — where 26 patients have escaped in the last three years — says staff are not to blame for patients who bolt.

Cousin says hiker who died by waterfall near Vancouver died selflessly

Search on for 2 swimmers reported in distress in Lake of the Woods: OPP

Bylaw change proposed after charges against two satirical stripteasers in 2016 prompted outrage.

Ontario’s first Green party legislator has been sworn in at Queen’s Park, promising to help change the culture of politics in the province.

The federal government plans to deepen Canada’s involvement in Mali by sending up to 20 police officers and investing millions of dollars in the coming years to help train local security forces in the destitute West African nation.

A Regina mother whose daughter went missing in 2007 is launching a multimillion-dollar class-action lawsuit against the federal government and the RCMP, alleging a “negligent” and “lackadaisical” approach to investigating missing and murdered Indigenous women.

Ontario says Ottawa should pay for the 'mess' caused by illegal border crossers

Kevin Freeman was driving a train into Toronto’s Bloor Station when a man dressed in black burst through the crowd and jumped onto the tracks.

Bell, Rogers slash Toronto internet prices in bid to woo customers to faster networks

The union representing health-care professionals and other workers at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton’s psychiatric forensic unit — where 26 patients have escaped in the last three years — says staff are not to blame for patients who bolt.

Investigators clung to the steep edge of a ravine on Thursday, some on their hands and knees, as they scraped through heaps of dirt and brush searching for more human remains near a home in midtown Toronto where accused serial killer Bruce McArthur worked as a landscaper.

McMaster University students have developed a software that helps connect youth with good jobs.

It’s big, it’s orange and it’s wearing a diaper. And now the blimp depicting President Donald Trump as an infant with an iPhone in hand has permission from the mayor of London to fly over Parliament Square Garden when the U.S. leader visits London next week.

Salvadoran asylum seeker mounts legal challenge of Safe Third Country agreement

United States President Donald Trump accepted the resignation of Scott Pruitt, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator, he said in a tweet Thursday.

Canada looks to deepen involvement in Mali by sending up to 20 police officers

Bylaw change proposed after charges against two satirical stripteasers in 2016 prompted outrage.

U.S. President Donald Trump has ramped up his Twitter assault on the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and high oil prices, but experts say the president’s own push to cut off Iran’s oil sales is the biggest reason oil prices have gone up recently.

Boeing and Brazilian jet maker Embraer will attempt to form a joint venture that would push the U.S. aerospace giant into the market for smaller airliners.

Amazon.com is looking more and more like a traditional retailer.

More human remains found at Toronto property linked to alleged serial killer

Ontario says Ottawa should pay for the 'mess' caused by illegal border crossers

A line of cannabis strains backed by members of the Tragically Hip will carry names familiar to many of the band’s fans.

2nd Novichok poisoning likely not deliberate, police say

At a gilded temple in Thailand’s mountainous north, Ekapol Chanthawong honed a skill that will serve him well as he sits trapped underground in a dark cave: meditation.

A Salvadoran woman and her two daughters who fled their home country after allegedly suffering extortion and rape at the hands of members of the notorious MS-13 gang have launched a legal challenge of the Canada-U.S. Safe Third Country agreement.

Toronto student arrested for protesting demolition of Palestinian village

Britain’s interior minister accused Russia on Thursday of turning the U.K. into a “dumping grounds for poison,” and demanded an explanation on how two people were inadvertently poisoned with the same military-grade nerve agent used to attack a former Russian spy and his daughter in the same area four months ago.

Ontario says Ottawa should pay for the 'mess' caused by illegal border crossers

Hamilton police have arrested a youth in connection with an April 7 stabbing in Ancaster after seeing the young man get into a vehicle in the Barton Street East area on Wednesday.

LONDON - Protesters have been given approval to fly a blimp depicting Donald Trump as a giant orange baby over Parliament during the U.S. president's visit to Britain next week.

Bruce McArthur faces eight counts of first-degree murder.

The first phase of a planned $800 million redevelopment at the Village of St. Elizabeth Mills on Hamilton’s south-west Mountain will not be going to Hamilton’s planning committee July 10 as originally expected.

"The bylaw as written proposes to infringe fundamental Charter rights of the residents of Hamilton, said Joey Coleman, local journalist.

33 deaths in Quebec attributed to heat: health officials

Salvadoran asylum seeker mounts legal challenge of Safe Third Country agreement