Afro Canadian Caribbean Association is holding Saturday morning Black history classes for junior and intermediate students starting March 17.

For a year, the walking and biking trails snaking through south Kansas City, Missouri, were plagued with bloodshed.

Toronto police to update investigation of accused serial killer Bruce McArthur

Spin Master Corp. buying stuffed toy brand Gund for US$79.1 million

Paving over porous paradise, or any absorbent ground, increases the risk of basement flooding, say researchers using City of Toronto data.

After an absence of more than two decades, Hamilton’s St. Jean de Brebeuf Catholic Secondary School has returned to the OFSAA stage in girls volleyball.

Quebec beverage maker Geloso Group announces end of FCKD UP drink

There is no caveat like “unless the employer has a good reason for the change,” writes Ed Canning

President Donald Trump began the week by issuing a pair of early-morning tweets that say American tariffs on imported steel and aluminum will only come off if there's a new NAFTA agreement that's fair to the United States.

They spent their first year in Washington as an untouchable White House power couple, commanding expansive portfolios, outlasting rivals and enjoying unmatched access to the president. But Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump have undergone a swift and stunning reckoning of late, their powers restricted, their enemies emboldened and their future in the West Wing uncertain.

We've all been there. Someone talks during the movie in the theatre, and sighs permeate as everyone waits for someone else to confront the offender.

Police investigating death of woman, 26, in Mississauga as homicide

News that the mayor of Whitchurch-Stouffville could be barred from the town offices after an ethics investigation did not stop his supporters from coming out on a sunny Sunday afternoon to celebrate the forthcoming birth of his first child.

Now that it has been established beyond doubt that Hamilton has most of the worst roads in Canada, it's time our councillors started to get serious about this problem.

Ryan Seacrest's reign as the prince of the red carpet may have ended tonight. Usually the E! host is a mandatory stop for Oscar guests on their way into the awards ceremony. Not this year. Perhaps you could say, echoing the pins that many guests were wearing, that his time is up.

Phys-ed teacher Scott Tyler’s legacy is an excellent track and football career during his university days in the United States and a professional football career that saw him play as a halfback for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in 1964.

Toronto police to update investigation of accused serial killer Bruce McArthur

A woman was attacked from behind and stabbed in the head in what Hamilton Police are calling a seemingly ‘random’ attack in the central city.

How did "The Shape of Water," a movie about a mute cleaning woman falling truly, madly, deeply in love with a fish-man, wind up winning the Oscar for best picture?

Fewer than half of new cancer patients in this area are asked if they smoke with the view of helping them quit

Stink strait: New Mexico town battling growing skunk crisis

Contract staff represented by CUPE begin strike at York University

Partial list of winners for the 90th Academy Awards presented Sunday by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences:

I L Thomas Odadrihonyanita Elementary School will be closed Monday; police investigating

An “intergenerational dialogue on sisterhood with daughters of the continent and the diaspora” is the topic of a panel presentation hosted by the Afro Canadian Caribbean Association on Sunday, March 11 from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. at 745 Barton St. E. For tickets go to www.accahamilton.com or call 905-517-4321.

McMaster Children and Youth University (MCYU) Curiosity Crawl gives kids a taste of the university experience.

— In just over a week, six volunteers will start filing up to 500 tax returns for people with little to no income at the Shepherds of Good Hope homeless shelter in downtown Ottawa.

. — Wildlife officers in Alberta are investigating tips they’ve received after posting a photograph of a cougar carcass they say was illegally killed and abandoned in an area west of Calgary.

— Russia will “never” extradite any of the 13 Russians indicted by the United States for election-meddling, Russian President Vladimir Putin said, even as he insisted they didn’t act on behalf of his government.

An apartment building collapsed Sunday in Poland’s western city of Poznan, killing four people and injuring 24 others, officials said as firefighters and rescuers with dogs combed the rubble in search of more victims.

— Ontario’s Progressive Conservative party, fending off criticisms about the system put in place to help select its new leader, has given members more time both to register for the right to vote and actually cast their ballots.

— Syrian President Bashar Assad vowed Sunday to continue with a military offensive in a rebel-held region near the capital, as troops and allied militias captured a number of villages and towns in the largest advance since a wide-scale operation began last month.

— A woman from Pakistan’s marginalized Hindu minority has been elected to the senate for the first time ever in an election over the weekend in which a Taliban-linked cleric was defeated.

— Via Rail says its trains are back on schedule after a freight train derailment delayed trips between Toronto and Montreal or Ottawa for hours on Saturday.

— A law firm is seeking submissions from across Atlantic Canada for artwork to be displayed on the exterior of the movie theatre where Viola Desmond took her legendary stand for civil rights.

A Canadian who admitted to plotting a terrorist attack on New York City is pleading for “a second chance” in a letter submitted to the court ahead of his upcoming sentencing.

Too few cancer patients get help to quit smoking

— A newspaper in northern Ontario is apologizing for a headline on a story about a police investigation into two incidents where eggs were thrown from passing vehicles at two men believed to be Indigenous.

— The Trump administration is coming under political pressure at home to exclude Canada from global tariffs on steel and aluminum, and while stating its preference for a hard line it’s leaving the door open just the tiniest crack to the possibility of adjustments.

The Trump administration is coming under political pressure at home to exclude Canada from global tariffs on steel and aluminum, and while stating its preference for holding firm it's leaving the door open just the tiniest crack to the possibility of adjustments.

“It was scary,” said witness to Saturday night mayhem

Investigators are trying to figure out why a Central Michigan University student charged with fatally shooting his parents acted so strangely the day before the killings that he was taken to a hospital.

Group of masked, black-clad people roams Hamilton, damaging stores, cars

— In his quest to tackle gun violence, President Donald Trump has alternated between calling for tougher laws and declaring his fealty to the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms, leaving a trail of befuddled lawmakers and advocates in his wake.

Via Rail says its trains are back on schedule after a freight train derailment delayed trips between Toronto and Montreal or Ottawa for hours on Saturday.

Scientists on Tuesday published new evidence that old or even ancient carbon, pulled out of the atmosphere and stored in the bodies of plants hundreds or thousands of years ago, is being set loose again from soils in the Arctic region.

— Italians braved long lines and confusing ballots to vote Sunday in one of the most uncertain elections in years — one that could determine if the country succumbs to the populist, euroskeptic and far-right sentiment that has swept through Europe.

— The archdiocese of Naples says it has sent the Vatican a 1,200-page dossier compiled by a male escort identifying 40 actively gay priests and seminarians in Italy.