About 3,200 Canadian National Railway conductors, trainpersons and yard workers are on strike after the union and company failed to reach a deal by the midnight deadline.

Findings in Canadian Medical Association Journal dispute anecdotal suggestion that pot can be an ‘exit drug’

Public health official calls the lack of results after months of searching ‘disappointing’

"We have made progress over the years," said Andrew Grice, director of water.

No injuries in King St. E. and Gage Ave. N. shooting

A 59-year-old Hamilton woman is dead after a car crashed through the front window of a Niagara Street business in St. Catharines just before noon Monday.

Rob Hitchcock is a Hamilton Tiger-Cats Wall of Fame member. A photo caption on the front page Monday said he was a member of the CFL Hall of Fame. The Spectator regrets the error.

They allow an entire residence to be rented out when an owner or long-term tenant is away, up to 180 nights per year.

Fred Briggs danced and filmed his way through 70 years of life and family and the Beach Strip

Adam Wiatrowski, 26, sentenced to six years for attempted murder

Crown attorneys told a packed court it would not be in the public interest to pursue criminal charges against the Extinction Rebellion protesters.

One new study found that heart attack survivors benefited from a medicine long used to treat gout. Several experimental drugs also showed early promise for interfering with heart-harmful genes without modifying the genes themselves.

U.S. State Department officials were informed that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was feeling pressure from the Trump administration to investigate former Vice-President Joe Biden even before the July phone call that has led to impeachment hearings in Washington, two people with knowledge of the matter told The Associated Press.

Metrolinx is recommending hourly commuter train service for the east-end station. But right now, no one knows when the downsized and delayed station will be built.

The House judiciary committee is seeking grand jury testimony and other details redacted from the public version of Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

Trump has called Fed officials “boneheads”

Dozens of Canadians remained in Hong Kong on Monday, according to several institutions reached by The Canadian Press — many of which said it would be in their students’ best interest to flee the violence.

This will be the Dust Bowl, caused by drought. Winnipeg, which last won in 1990, and Hamilton (1999) have the two longest current Grey Cup dry streaks in the nine-team CFL.

Cost of 25-year plan to replace municipal portion of lines is $4.1 million

Don’t overlook splashy coffee table books as holiday gifts

Police believe the incident was targeted

“We should not have to compete with our own city,” Marty Langlois of Woodland Memorials told councillors Monday.

The Spectator takes a look at key dates and next steps in the process

Winners of four of the 11 prizes up for grabs this season still unaccounted for

Digital billboards are the future both within and outside city limits

Toronto hairstylist’s wage theft battle has left her “defeated as a victim, and angry as a taxpayer.”

Police said the “hold and secure” in place at several local schools has been lifted

New McMaster centre wants to make public opinion polling more accurate so public policy doesn’t go askew

Giving donations is a wonderful, generous practice. Because I respect it, and the money and time private individuals put into it, I want to give some input.

Resident still awaiting answer on why his arguments failed

RCMP say they were called to the Mad Dogs and Englishmen kennels east of Canmore, Alta., on Saturday morning when approximately 30 protesters allegedly broke into the kennels to protest the treatment of the dogs.

In a minority government, the jobs of government House leader, chief whip and committee chairs will be far more important than they were when Trudeau commanded a majority in the Commons.

As night fell in Hong Kong, police tightened a siege Monday at a university campus as hundreds of anti-government protesters trapped inside sought to escape.

Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi invited President Donald Trump to testify in front of investigators in the House impeachment inquiry ahead of a week that will see several key witnesses appear publicly.

Oakville Hydro is dealing with multiple power outages in Oakville Monday morning.

Four people were killed and six more wounded when “unknown suspects” sneaked into a backyard filled with people at a party in central California and fired into the crowd, police said.

His message: Do a thorough tick check after you spend time outside.

Prince says he does not remember woman that says he had sex with him when she was 17.

Niagara will have new garbage collectors on the streets in 2020.

Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi invited President Donald Trump to testify in front of investigators in the House impeachment inquiry ahead of a week that will see several key witnesses appear publicly.

Alexander Lukashenko has ruled the ex-Soviet country of 10 million with a heavy hand since 1994, suppressing dissent and independent news media.

U.S. Defence Secretary Mark Esper said Sunday the United States and South Korea have indefinitely postponed a joint military exercise in an “act of goodwill” toward North Korea.

Police are investigating the case as a possible mass poisoning in the neighbourhood known as “Cracolandia,” or “Crackland,” which is infamous for open drug use.

Anti-government protesters barricaded themselves inside Hong Kong Polytechnic University for days, fighting back with gasoline bombs and bows and arrows.

Probe will examine what went wrong. Why was a soldier with PTSD allowed to buy a rifle, how did system fail him?

A 24-year-old man who was shot in the head remains in hospital in stable condition. Police are looking for a male suspect in his 20s.

The report from Parliament’s intelligence committee concludes that Russian interference may have affected the 2016 referendum on Britain’s departure from the European Union, though the impact is “unquantifiable.”

Protesters from across the Czech Republic attended Saturday’s demonstration, the second massive protest opposing Babis at Letna park, the scene of massive gatherings in 1989 that greatly contributed to the fall of communism.

With his focus on bipartisan, state-specific issues, the moderate Edwards cobbled together enough cross-party support Saturday to defeat Republican businessman Eddie Rispone, getting about 51 per cent of the vote.

Dr. Brian Day took on the provincial government, and in effect the “myth” of Canada’s single-tier universal health-care system, in 2009 and the case landed in B.C. Supreme Court in 2016 with support from four patients.