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Although Premier Doug Ford has repeatedly cited Niagara’s 123 municipal politicians as an example of why changes are needed, the province won’t force changes on the region.

​Don’t worry residents — you won’t become the city of Halton.

The 13-year-old and 15-year-old fought after school, off school property, police say

After announcing it would go forward with a review of Ontario’s regional municipalities in January, The Ontario Ministry of Housing announced Tuesday it would not pursue a top-down approach to municipal governance.

Mayor Kathryn McGarry is “delighted” the Ontario government has put the brakes on forced amalgamation for municipalities and “is taking an approach that focuses on being partners rather than providing top-down direction.”

Nine months after vowing major municipal reforms, the Ontario government is abandoning its “top-down approach” to regional government.

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Nine months after vowing major municipal reforms, Premier Doug Ford’s government is abandoning its “top-down approach” to regional government.

Ontario's review of regional government ended with an announcement Friday by the ministry that the municipalities will now review themselves.

Ontario government will instead provide $143 million to help communities find efficiencies

Each eatery deserves more words than space here permits.

Keep a jacket and umbrella handy

The fast-fashion chain’s bankruptcy filing last month provides a rare glimpse inside a retailer that has been intensely secretive and privately held for decades.

The ride would be his last one.

In one of those robberies, Robert Collings donned a Santa hat and white beard and shouted ‘Ho, Ho, Ho, Merry Christmas everyone’ as he entered the drugstore.

Keep a jacket and umbrella handy

The fall spawning run of salmon in local creeks is always a spectacle

The 26-year-old fled the country before police identified him in Boulevard Billiards shooting

When my Aunt Gert had a heart attack in her mid-70s, the examining doctor told her that it was not her first. Tests done to assess the damage to her heart revealed a section of dead muscle from a previous unrecognized heart attack. Sometime in the past, she had had what doctors call a “silent myocardial infarction,” or SMI, silent in that any symptoms she might have had at the time did not register as related to her heart and were not brought to medical attention.

The complainant in a gang sexual assault trial testified Thursday that she “couldn’t do anything” during the alleged attack.

Aspiring doctors have always needed specimens to learn, but in the past sometimes they went too far.

Tiannah Antone-Federici was participating in her school’s Terry Fox Run in early October when she collapsed

Quebec-based Hexo Corp. tells greenhouse workers and management Thursday morning

Going to collage with Hamilton artist

Hamilton study finds governments didn’t use research evidence in Syrian refugee policies

Former food bank at Mary and Cannon streets reopening next month with 35 subsidized apartments

House under construction collapses onto itself

No one injured in afternoon blaze.

It sets to reduce overall program spending by 2.8 per cent over four years to balance the books by 2023.

The now-deceased men died from liver disease related to their alcohol consumption. Both were denied potentially life-saving transplants based on their drinking habits.

The city of Burlington is reviewing its loose-leaf collection, snow-removal procedures and pre-building permit development approvals — as part of the province’s push to municipalities to find efficiencies. The city wants to hear from residents about what they think of the services, in an online survey, open until Nov. 4 on getinvolvedburlington.ca/servicereview.

Night shoots in down town Hamilton are very exciting, he said.

The English Montreal School Board has filed a challenge to Quebec’s secularism law, arguing it contravenes minority language education rights and should be struck down.

Bloc is willing to find issues of common ground, but may not budge on issues such as new pipelines, says leader

Sofiane Ghazi suddenly pleaded guilty on Sept. 5 — the second day of his jury trial — to reduced charges of second-degree murder of the infant boy and aggravated assault against his wife stemming from a July 24, 2017 attack.

Jolley Cut also back to normal

Tiannah Antone-Federici was participating in her school’s Terry Fox Run in early October when she collapsed

Latest attempt to snuff out probe comes as Democrats set stage to go public with inquiry in November.

Most worrisome has been the prospect of a collision between forces of the Syrian government’ and those backed by Turkey, which include Syrian rebel fighters and Islamic extremists opposed to President Bashar Assad.

The city of Burlington is reviewing its loose-leaf collection, snow-removal procedures and pre-building permit development approvals — as part of the province’s push to municipalities to find efficiencies. The city wants to hear from residents about what they think of the services, in an online survey, open until Nov. 4 on getinvolvedburlington.ca/servicereview.

Hamilton’s public school board is hitting a pause button on new gym expansions at elementary schools because of delays in getting Ministry of Education permission for eight already in the queue.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson vowed in Parliament on Wednesday that people smugglers would be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

Premier Doug Ford is continuing a court challenge of Ottawa’s carbon-pricing measures, despite suggesting this summer that he would drop it if Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was re-elected.

The band sites water problems and a growing drug addiction epidemic. Chief Caroline Keesic says the situation has led to a widespread crisis.

Investigation into clashes at Sept. 29 fundraiser results in four people facing charges

British Columbia has introduced legislation it says will make it the first province to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

“We will make this next four years the most progressive government in the Northwest Territories.”

Lengthy closure expected, drivers warned to avoid area

"We want our sanitary sewers to be in good working order," said Ancaster Coun. Lloyd Ferguson.