As the area’s councillor, Brad Clark warned neighbours would be staring at “a mountain of crap” once then-owner Newalta Corp. got approval to shrink the Taro industrial dump’s footprint in return for increasing the site’s height by 4.5 metres.

A woman is calling for the demolition of the “house of horrors” where a murdered Oshawa teen’s remains were discovered late last year.

The Public Health Agency of Canada says it has established a link between a recent outbreak of salmonella and frozen raw breaded chicken products sold primarily in eastern Canada.

Amanda Lindhout fought through tears Wednesday as she told a hushed courtroom how she suffers from crippling flashbacks and sometimes wakes up screaming, part of the emotional legacy of her 15-month kidnapping ordeal in Somalia.

Hamilton’s public school board is preparing to potentially sell Nora Frances Henderson Secondary School — formerly Barton — once its replacement on the south Mountain is built.

The city will add its voice to a last-ditch effort to prevent the liquidation of Hamilton Specialty Bar. The century-old steelmaker went into receivership in January and is slated to be liquidated after union efforts to find a new buyer-operator failed by March 26, the court-imposed deadline. But council was told Wednesday that the United Steel Workers Local 4752, which represents workers at the facility, is continuing to negotiate with a potential operator, KAL Advisory Partners LLC. (That potential buyer would now have to deal with the successful liquidation bidder, American Iron and Metals.) A motion from Coun. Matthew Green asked top city bureaucrats and Mayor Fred Eisenberger to meet with interested parties as well as provincial officials to “explore any and all opportunities” to keep the steelmaker a going concern. “We’ve seen what happens when our steel industry is gutted,” said Green, who noted the steelmaker at maximum capacity employs up to 250 workers. “There is still hope for this deal.”

Law clerk ‘misspoke’ when she said she never saw documents, Susan Clairmont writes

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The Walker's chocolate Easter Bunny factory

Ottawa man faces four charges in fatal highway collision in Toronto: police

Dundas Lions Club Easter Egg Hunt, Dundas Driving Park. 8 a.m. sharp. $1 per person or $5 for a family along with a non-perishable food item or donation.

Three teen girls hatched a plan to carjack Hayder Qasim-Rushdi, whom they met through an online escort service. But during a fight for the keys he was fatally stabbed

The Easter Bunny better don its earmuffs when it hops into Hamilton this weekend.

The Ontario Municipal Board has approved a settlement agreement between the City of Burlington and Adi Development that will see two proposed condo towers at Thomas Alton Boulevard reduced in height from 19 to 17 storeys and the number of units cut from 612 to 601.

PHOENIX - Authorities say a hot air balloon carrying 13 people crashed and caught fire Wednesday morning in the desert outside Phoenix, igniting a small brush fire but causing no injuries.

— Jagmeet Singh has retracted the punishment meted out to Hamilton New Democrat MP David Christopherson after facing a backlash from NDP caucus members.

— As it braces to fight for re-election this spring, Ontario’s Liberal government has rolled out a spending package that targets nearly every demographic while plunging the province back into deficit, with the books expected to stay in the red for six years.

Ottawa's framework for spectrum auction sets aside 43% for regional carriers

Ontario Liberals to present budget today ahead of the spring election

Motorcycle driver killed in collision north of Guelph, Ont., OPP say

O — Barrick Gold Corp.’s visionary founder Peter Munk, a man of lofty global ambitions who fulfilled them like few others, died Wednesday at the age of 90.

— A tearful Amanda Lindhout says she has crippling flashbacks and sometimes wakes up screaming due to her kidnapping ordeal in Somalia.

Sobbing Lindhout says Somalia kidnapping inflicted emotional and physical scars

5 things to know about cannabis from Ontario's latest provincial budget

Barrick Gold founder Peter Munk dies in Toronto at age 90

Hamilton’s three inner-city areas — wards 2, 3 and 4 — accounted for 48.5 per cent of its residential fires in 2017, despite having a little more than 20 per cent of the city’s population.

Man dead after garbage chute mishap in Toronto condo building

— An attorney for adult film star Stormy Daniels filed a deposition motion Wednesday that dials up the pressure on President Donald Trump over his alleged sexual encounter with her years ago.

Documents show Liberals took deep dive on ways to make Netflix pay sales tax

Liberals promise historic investment as official languages action plan unveiled

Ontario’s Liberal government is borrowing billions to bankroll new pre-election budget spending aimed at seniors and young families.

Highlights from the 2018 Ontario budget, unveiled by Finance Minister Charles Sousa Wednesday. This budget will be the Liberal government’s last before the coming provincial election.

— Increased activity at a North Korean nuclear site has once again caught the attention of analysts and renewed concerns about the complexities of denuclearization talks as President Donald Trump prepares for a summit with Kim Jong Un in the coming weeks.

The fire caused about $125,000 in damage

The United States will no longer shoulder more than a quarter of the multibillion-dollar costs of the United Nations’ peacekeeping operations, Washington’s envoy said Wednesday.

Ottawa is changing the dates of Canada’s snow crab season and establishing a permanent speed limit in the Gulf of St. Lawrence in hopes of protecting the highly endangered North Atlantic right whale.

Materials and energy stocks weigh on Toronto market, loonie trades lower

“We can’t be naive and think that it’s not going to arrive on campus,” says Glenn DeCaire, the university’s director of security and parking.

Seabird population threatened

— A Montreal-area man whose aggressive behaviour forced a Cuba-bound aircraft to return to Canada under a U.S. military escort last summer will be sentenced April 18.

NewsAlert: Barrick Gold founder Peter Munk dies in Toronto at age 90

Ontario debt mounts as province moves back into deficit ahead of election

Highlights from the Ontario budget unveiled on Wednesday

Five things to know about the 2018-2019 Ontario budget

— Powerful opioid drugs are killing people in the northern city of Thunder Bay at a higher rate than anywhere else in Ontario, a new report states.

Man who hit son with USB chord for eating toast too slowly gets probation

Toronto police charge 3 men after human trafficking investigation

More than two decades after its original finale, a massive audience welcomed "Roseanne" back to ABC on Tuesday night. The network reported that the two-episode premiere attracted a whopping 18.2 million viewers, ABC's best results for an hour-long telecast since fall 2006.

Trudeau disappointed by Pope's decision not to apologize for residential schools