Hamilton shelter cat vying for the title of top underdog — or undercat rather, across North America

Pretending you have the goods on an employee often backfires

The former Diamond Princess passengers can expect to undergo another two weeks of isolation at the Nav Centre in Cornwall, Ont., where they will be monitored for potential signs of the coronavirus, or COVID-19.

See photos and video from the picket line

A police officer who lives in Burlington has been demoted after pleading guilty to drinking and driving, having more than twice the amount of alcohol allowed in his system when he was pulled over for speeding on the QEW.

Three places to get your fill

Roger Earl VanEvery, of Brantford, and Shajjad Hossain Idrish, of Hamilton, charged in Galaxy Motel shooting

Cathedral was 14-0 during regular season play while Brébeuf was 12-2.

The first lady spoke for nearly nine minutes from a prepared speech

Tragically Hip frontman got Burlington-born singer ‘in the door’

Loblaw Cos. Ltd. reported its fourth-quarter profit rose compared with a year earlier, but the parent company of Loblaws and Shoppers Drug Mart fell short of analysts’ expectations.

Education Minister Stephen Lecce has repeatedly described compensation as a major sticking point — the teachers’ unions dispute this. We take a closer look at this thorny issue.

Service Ontario kiosks will continue to sell the troubled plates to buyers of new cars and trucks and others needing replacement plates. To date, a total of 218,000 of the new plates have been produced and 49,000 issued.

Counterprotesters who dismantled Edmonton blockade praised in far-right online circles, policing experts say it complicates an already complicated situation.

A look at what schools will be closed when as the province and the teachers’ unions negotiate contracts

We know when they’ve met and how long their lunches are, but not much else about the unelected group mulling how to spend Hamilton’s $1B for transportation projects

Yaron Levgoren is arguing that the way the law is written, it’s impossible for a driver to stop safely at an intersection in the time allotted by the traffic signals.

Stalled contract negotiations prompted the first mass walkout for all of Ontario’s biggest education unions since 1997

What can you do when you’re still two weeks away from daylight saving time and you are getting cabin fever? Here are seven ideas that are sure to add some light into your day. Environment Canada is calling for dry conditions this weekend, sunny on Saturday and cloud cover on Sunday with high of 5 C.

Those who are cleared to travel will be taken to Canadian Forces Base Trenton for further screening before they are placed under another two-week quarantine at the Nav Centre in Cornwall, Ont.

Getting vaccinated for the flu may have prevented about six out of 10 people from becoming infected in an early Canadian flu season, says a study involving a network of family doctors who monitored patients in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario and Quebec.

Protecting the environment and tackling climate change have climbed up the list of Americans’ political priorities this year as economic concerns have faded, according to a new report from Pew Research Center.

Chancellor Angela Merkel said that while the circumstances of the attack still needed to be fully investigated, the shootings exposed the “poison” of racism in German society.

Stone was convicted in November on all seven counts of an indictment that accused him of lying to Congress, tampering with a witness and obstructing the House investigation into whether the Trump campaign co-ordinated with Russia to tip the 2016 election.

Johnson has been criticized by opponents for failing to visit any flooded areas or to convene a meeting of the government’s crisis committee, COBRA.

The rival leaders had twice missed deadlines in the past year to form the transitional government that is expected to lead to elections in three years’ time, much to the impatience of the United States and others.

The meeting comes amid a renewed push for a new presidential election in Venezuela, one aimed at ousting the country’s dictator president, Nicolas Maduro.

Dr. Michael Tymianski of Toronto Western Hospital struggled for years to get his research funded. He has just announced results of trials showing a drug he developed has improved outcomes for some 20 per cent of stroke patients.

Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says she wants to make Canada’s trade negotiations more “transparent,” by agreeing to proposals from the New Democrats to provide more details of future deals.

A couple is facing several drug and firearm charges after police investigation

Les Wexner, who founded the company in 1963, will step down as chairman and CEO after the transaction is completed and become chairman emeritus.

Half of the country’s Big Six banks — Royal Bank, TD Bank and CIBC — missed expectations for the fiscal fourth quarter, prompting analysts to temper their 2020 forecasts.

The latest model of Ontario’s licence plates will need to be replaced once the manufacturer has fixed “a problem” that makes them difficult to read in the dark, the Progressive Conservative government said Thursday.

A paddleboarder earned the Maui Police department’s highest civilian honour for fighting off an attack by a tiger shark to protect members of a tour group he was leading.

Rich Taylor waiting to learn if he will be released on bail

The Alberta government, fresh off failed contract talks with doctors, is ending its long-standing master agreement with them and putting new rules in place April 1.

A test event for the Tokyo Olympics scheduled for later this month that would have involved some non-Japanese athletes is being revamped because of fear of the spreading virus from China.

JERUSALEM - A nine-year-old Palestinian boy who was shot in the face by Israeli police in a tense east Jerusalem neighbourhood last week will not regain vision in his left eye despite surgery, a local community leader who is in touch with the family said Thursday.

City says there will be no gap in services; funding will be reallocated in local network

Officers found the brain in a clear glass Mason jar with no paperwork during a random inspection at the crossing between Sarnia, Ont., and Port Huron, Michigan.

The 28-year-old resident was arrested in a Burlington hotel room

What are the drugs you see in this picture?

Students, newcomers advised to think safety when entering the workforce

Winterfest public outdoor installations damaged repeatedly

The Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association, the French public teachers’ union and the unions representing elementary and secondary school teachers are planning a provincewide strike on Friday.

It was another day before he learned where his older son was.

Three dissenting councillors are reluctant with hundreds of millions in local taxpayer dollars at stake

Hamilton police say no one was injured after a steel coil, estimated to weigh a few thousand pounds, rolled off the bed.

One of the defining slogans of President Donald Trump’s campaign in 2016 was “Drain the Swamp” — a promise to clean up Washington politics of corruption and insider influence. So strict was his avowed purity that he presided over regular chants of “Lock her up!” aimed at his opponent, Hillary Clinton, for the infraction of using a personal email account for public business.

A day after insisting there’s nothing wrong with Ontario’s new double-blue licence plates, Premier Doug Ford’s government is now trying to shift blame to the manufacturer after complaints the plates are hard to read in the dark.