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Hamilton, Niagara police say they won’t randomly stop citizens to enforce stay-at-home order
On the heels of the announcement that police will have heightened powers for the duration of the stay-at-home order, some area police services are saying they won’t use them.
Furious criticism of new Ontario police powers
Ontarians waking up to tough new pandemic restrictions
Record number of COVID-19 patients in hospitals
Ontarians waking up to tough new pandemic restrictions
Suspicious fire disrupts COVID-19 testing at Mohawk College
Testing at the facility stopped on Saturday while the Hamilton Fire Department investigate.
Explosion flattens home on west Hamilton Mountain
The Ontario Fire Marshall’s office is probing an explosion that destroyed at home at 279 Bonaventure Drive on the west Mountain.
Some jobs in the COVID-19 pandemic are gone for good. Here’s what we need to do for workers
The current employment picture across Canada is a mix of the good, the bad and the ugly. While the overall pace of job creation is picking up, the pandemic continues to hammer service-oriented sectors such as retail, travel and hospitality.
Some jobs in the COVID-19 pandemic are gone for good. Here’s what we need to do for workers
The current employment picture across Canada is a mix of the good, the bad and the ugly. While the overall pace of job creation is picking up, the pandemic continues to hammer service-oriented sectors such as retail, travel and hospitality.
Suspicious fire at Mohawk College COVID-19 testing centre
All appointments for April 17 have been cancelled at the St. Joe’s Mountain COVID-19 testing centre at Mohawk College have been cancelled following a suspicious overnight fire at the Fennell campus facility.
Suspicious fire at Mohawk College COVID-19 testing centre
All appointments for April 17 have been cancelled at the St. Joe’s Mountain COVID-19 testing centre at Mohawk College have been cancelled following a suspicious overnight fire at the Fennell campus facility.
Report shows Hamilton poised to get $145 million in federal aid for long-awaited social-housing repairs
There has been no announcement yet, but a letter from CMHC confirms CityHousing Hamilton is eligible for tens of millions of dollars in loans and gran
Hamilton doctor goes down with Titanic
Dr. Alfred Pain, 24, was one of 1,523 to die when the Titanic sank
Shawn Micallef: This year’s cherry blossom rules show how much we’ve learned about COVID-19. Too bad Doug Ford’s government hasn’t
This pleasant spring has been a blessing. Warm sun, beautiful days: it lifts the spirits. Last year at this time was so different. In my memory it was perpetually overcast, damp, cold and dark well into May. The darkest of dark and terrifying early few months of the pandemic.
Today's coronavirus news: Worldwide COVID-19 death toll tops a staggering 3 million
The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Saturday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.
A royal beginning for battlefield monument
Queen Mary unveils monument to the Battle of Stoney Creek, from London
Martin Regg Cohn: Our battle with COVID-19 could do without the finger-pointing
No, we can’t vaccinate ourselves out of the COVID-19 surge anytime soon.
Three Hamilton long-term-care homes receive millions for upgrades
The federal and provincial governments announced nearly $100 million to install heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems and update fire spri
A tale of two pandemics: Canada largely dodged America’s COVID horrors. Now in the third wave, our per-capita infection rate surpasses the U.S.
Two monstrous mounds impose over a scraggly line.
‘These patients are super sick’: Hundreds of COVID-19 patients transferred to other hospitals to free up space in overburdened ICUs
The missing human connection is one of the things Jonathan Lee finds hardest about working as a paramedic during COVID-19.
Art Gallery of Hamilton opens in 1914
Artistic passion finds a Hamilton home
McMaster denies sexual misconduct allegations by former student in statement of defence
The university’s statement of defence argues the action should be dismissed
Rose Anne Prevec’s cartoons came together on Groundhog Hill in Dundas Valley
Prevec’s drawing style is concise. A few lines stand for a lot. But being concise is never easy, writes Regina Haggo.
Unions urge Hamilton’s top doctor to close special education classrooms until educators vaccinated
Hamilton public health is working with school boards to ‘ensure the operation of special education programs in as safe a way as possible’
Vandals strike again at Waterdown Union Cemetery
Vandals have struck again at Waterdown’s Union Cemetery.
The Queen says goodbye to her life partner today — like thousands did this pandemic year. How do survivors go on?
Peter was Jennifer Kay Jensen’s love from the age of 16. Their married life began right after college — eating canned clams on toast for dinner to save money — and wound up with a successful real-estate business built from the ground-up, three successful adult children, and plans for early retirement, splitting their time between Maryland and Florida.
No winning ticket for Lotto Max jackpot
No winning ticket for Friday night's $10 million Lotto Max jackpot
House explodes on Hamilton Mountain
Fire department on scene.
Ontario tightens restrictions, cops get new powers
Ontario could announce new restrictions today to curb surging COVID-19 rates
Bruce Arthur: ‘Our health care system is going to totally collapse.’ These doctors listened to Doug Ford’s new plan and heard defeat and death
The doctors and nurses and respiratory therapists watched Doug Ford’s press conference from the respirology ward at Brampton Civic Hospital. Brampton Civic is one of the hardest hit COVID-19 hospitals in the country: every day the ICU and the wards fill up, and doctors transfers patients anywhere they can find a bed, and then they do it all again. When the system starts to collapse, people think Brampton Civic will be the first hospital to fall.
Ontarians strongly favour paid sick days, poll finds
A poll commissioned by Canada’s largest private-sector union has found that a large majority of Ontarians support legislated paid sick days for workers in the province.
‘Infuriating’ new COVID-19 measures ignore science table advice on stricter lockdown, paid sick days
The workplaces hardest hit by COVID-19 outbreaks remain untouched by new provincial measures that also fail to provide paid sick days for low-income workers most likely to contract the virus.
Hamilton school boards will have ‘transition days’ for staff and students to adjust to remote
There will be no instruction for all elementary — and public board secondary — students on Monday
Civil liberties watchdogs say stay-at-home order opens door to ‘return to carding’
In a move that been called a “Black Friday of rights slashing” by a civil liberties group, the Ontario government has given police the power to randomly stop vehicles to ask about an individual’s reasons for leaving their home.
This Ancaster baseball Granny is the newest — two-dimensional — Blue Jays’ star
Look closely and you’ll see ‘a little old lady from Ancaster’ sitting among the celebs at Blue Jays’ home games, writes Scott Radley.
‘A monumental emergency’: Hamilton Health Sciences shutters urgent care clinic, operating room as hospitals brace for surge in COVID patients
The sweeping measures came as the province’s external COVID-19 Science Advisory Table delivered sobering projections Friday
Doug Ford orders random police checks for motorists, closes golf courses and playgrounds in latest COVID-19 restrictions
Premier Doug Ford has ordered random police checks for motorists, closed playgrounds and golf courses, and put checkpoints at the Quebec and Manitoba borders under Ontario’s latest COVID-19 restrictions.
Ontario has announced further COVID-19 restrictions. Here’s what that means for Toronto
Just eight days after the provincial government’s stay-at-home order took effect, Premier Doug Ford has announced additional restrictions to further clamp down on non-essential activity.
Sound trucks in Quebec to announce vaccine clinics
Quebec sets new records for number of daily COVID-19 vaccinations
Canada’s first major workplace COVID vaccination clinic could be the model for large employers across Canada
A Calgary doctor helping with Canada’s first major workplace vaccination clinic at an Alberta meat-packing plant hopes it can serve as a blueprint for large employers nationwide, as provinces grapple with surging case counts due to the spread of highly transmissible COVID-19 variants.
S&P/TSX composite rises to another record close
S&P/TSX composite edges lower in early trading, U.S. stock markets mixed
Here's what you can, and can't, do under Ontario's latest stay-at-home order
Here are some things you can still do outside of your home, along with a few things you can't.
Hamilton man arrested after string of downtown assaults
Police believe there are other victims
Most actively traded companies on the TSX
Most actively traded companies on the Toronto Stock Exchange
Maskless police officer hugs people in anti-mask group as Mississauga boxing gym stays open despite lockdown
As Huf Gym in Mississauga stays open in defiance of the provincial lockdown for a fourth straight day, a video of a maskless Peel Sergeant at the site was tweeted on Friday afternoon by Global journalist, Sean O’Shea.
Rolling up for COVID-19 shots at Hamilton Mountain pharmacy
John Mathew wanted to get vaccinated against the coronavirus.
NewsAlert: New restrictions for Ontario
Ontario could announce new restrictions today to curb surging COVID-19 rates
Hamilton residents with ‘highest-risk’ health conditions can book their COVID shots
People with health conditions considered ‘highest-risk’ and their caregivers can phone the Ontario call centre to book their vaccines
When to react to employment changes
If there is a significant breach of the employment contract, the courts expect an employee to act quickly and take the position they have been constru
Anxious about the AstraZeneca vaccine? Here are some more common causes of blood clots
Here are some common circumstances that are statistically more likely to put Canadians at risk of developing blood clots than taking the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.
Dundas potential proposal impact on 125 Pirie application not yet known
544 Governor's Rd. zoning bylaw permits retirement home use
Brantford police identify victim in Diana Avenue homicide
Investigators continue to canvass the Diana Avenue neighbourhood for witnesses and surveillance footage
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