It’s the final day of this seven-night cruise, and I am sitting in my moderately messy balcony stateroom aboard the Celebrity Summit finishing the last bites of a room service cheeseburger, bags as yet unpacked for tomorrow morning’s disembarkation, the vast undulating North Atlantic just over my starboard shoulder.

Tess Thompson Talley is grinning, hunting rifle in hand, in front of the dead giraffe, as she points to the sky in the way quarterbacks do after throwing touchdown passes.

Toronto police resume dig at home where Bruce McArthur worked as landscaper

Stoney Creek Coun. Maria Pearson and some residents in the Frances Avenue area are asking people to avoid disturbing nesting snapping turtles as they make their way to lay their eggs.

“We don’t want them to be driving taxis and working for Tim Hortons when they are qualified to enhance the health care system,” said project manager Daniela Beckford.

Who: Chantal Vulker, owner

Ontario’s new anti-scalping law was recently changed to delay the highly anticipated 50-per-cent limit on ticket markups

Four stabbed on bus in Brampton, Ont.; suspect arrested

As soon as Hayden Hatfield started walking down the aisle, her eyes locked on her flower girl.

Re: The disenfranchisement of Hamilton's Ward 7

Walmart became the target of Donald Trump supporters outraged by a T-shirt sold on the company's website, leading to calls for a boycott Tuesday.

On July 4, Americans celebrate their union, rue divisions

Crews respond to report of hikers falling into water in Shannon Falls area

Much of eastern Canada remains under blanket of hot, humid air

Thai official: Boys may have to dive from cave despite peril

British police: 2 people critical near poisoned spy city

Victim was sitting beside man related to organized crime boss.

Anthony Avalos suffered at least five days of sustained torture before the 10-year-old boy was killed last month, Los Angeles County prosecutors allege in new court papers.

When I played Little League softball, our team jerseys, an itchy-but-easily-washed polyester, were a bright primary yellow. Our patron was a local McDonald's franchise that rewarded wins with a free hamburger and small soft drink — a semicovert marketing strategy we happily embraced. In the second year, when our pitcher's accuracy improved dramatically, we had a winning record. That summer, we ate a lot of hamburgers. We'd ride in groups of twos or threes across town to the appointed McDonald's, piling into minivans or, with any luck, Jenny's mom's convertible. We'd slurp Dr. Peppers and devour our just-big-enough burgers. McDonald's was my introduction to onion, minced and reconstituted from its freeze-dried form, and the smallest dab of yellow mustard, its sharpness masked by the sweet-and-tangy ketchup, the perfect-but-always-too-small pickle. After our meal we'd play outside, shaking the Hamburglar jail and squeezing down the too-narrow twisty slides. Our childhoods were waning, but in those long summer evenings, we held on.

A few months ago, I wrote a piece about how my bicycle was stolen from outside my apartment in Brooklyn. It went viral.

Giant Tiger’s target customer is named Michelle. She is a working mom of two, stretched for time, stretched for money, and she doesn’t want to shop a 140,000-square-foot store to pick up some clothes for the toddler, chicken for the grill and flags for her family to wave on Canada Day.

Burning bird falls from wire in Germany, torches dry field

Hiring an outside auditor to be key part of Sgro’s mayoral campaign

Hamilton police are cautioning the public against “nuisance” calls to 911

Van Khanh Luong was last seen leaving the grounds around 5:30 p.m. Tuesday

Despite the scorching days, temperatures have not broken any records

A man working at a Stoney Creek condominium development has suffered life-threatening conditions after falling 15 metres (50 feet) on Tuesday.

A man recognized as one of Hamilton’s strongest advocates for children has died.

A handful boycotting Ottawa July 4th party in protest of Trump policies

Four stabbed on bus in Brampton, Ont.; suspect arrested

Canadian Cancer Society turns around finances after cutting excess fat post-merger

Man charged with second-degree murder after stabbing in Toronto, police say

Evidence of new efforts by Kim Jong Un to expand his nuclear arsenal shows the challenge facing U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo when he returns to Pyongyang this week to seek a detailed disarmament plan.

East Hamilton rent strikers are infusing a dose of boots-on-the-ground activism into an ongoing battle with their landlord over hikes and repairs.

A 15-year-old girl who was forcibly separated from her mother after fleeing to the U.S. from El Salvador described to a Washington state investigator how she was crammed into a windowless room with 60 other girls and deprived of proper sleep or food for three days.

Reducing Toronto’s escalating gun violence, which has claimed 22 lives so far this year, will require social change and not a police crackdown, politicians and crime researchers say.

Surrey mayor asks federal government to help combat gangs in growing city

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will visit Canadian troops in Latvia before attending the NATO summit in Brussels next week.

Ontario’s new premier has frozen the wages of public service managers and ordered a review of executive and management compensation in his latest effort to curb government spending.

Montreal health officials are blaming the heavy heat and humidity for at least six deaths in recent days.

Durham regional police say they’re looking for two female suspects after a man in a wheelchair was seriously injured in an assault.

The Hamilton Port Authority has made a $10,000 donation to Mission to Seafarers Southern Ontario (MTSSO) in honour of the International Day of the Seafarer.

Ontario’s new premier has taken a step in his plan to dismantle the province’s cap-and-trade system, a move some observers say leaves businesses involved in the program grappling with uncertainty.

London rocker Rose Cora Perry doesn’t mind playing ribfests. Or family fairs. Or even a kayak challenge, as she’ll do in August.

Worker injured in partial collapse of Port Hope house; OPP investigating

A 7-year-old Alaskan husky is credited with helping rescue an injured woman hiking a trail east of Anchorage, Alaska.

Justin Trudeau to visit Canadian troops in Latvia ahead of NATO summit

Police on Tuesday arrested a “health care professional” on suspicion of murdering eight babies and attempting to kill six other infants as part of “Operation Hummingbird,” an inquiry into the sudden and unexplained deaths of 17 babies at a top-tier public hospital in Britain.

Flamborough Connects says it was blindsided by a recent United Way of Halton and Hamilton decision that eliminated more than $17,000 from the agency’s yearly budget.

Protest teepees at Saskatchewan legislature staying after meeting with ministers