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Updated 2025-02-07 04:00
When a phone won’t cut it, now you can hire a robot photographer
Square Inc. plans to announce Monday that it’s beginning to take orders from anyone in the U.S. for mechanically snapped photos.
Updated: Overnight Linc closures start tonight for “urgent” repairs to overhead sign structures
The rolling closures will start in the westbound lanes tonight at 9 p.m. Work will continue overnight until 6 a.m.
Pair suffered ‘the starkest horror’ from daughter’s attacker
Four days before Christmas in 2018, a convicted sex offender drove to Smithville and forced the father of the girl he had sexually abused years earlier into the basement of his home.
Food guide, Gerald Butts in pre-campaign fight
Food fight: Liberals, Tories trade shots as pre-campaign battles intensify
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Four days before Christmas in 2018, a convicted sex offender drove to Smithville and forced the father of the girl he had sexually abused years earlier into the basement of his home.
Weekend blitz busts east-Hamilton street racers
Police set up an enforcement project in response to complaints from the community about dangerous driving.
American farmers finding YouTube to be fertile ground for business
In rural communities across the U.S., YouTube is the most popular social media platform according to a Pew survey.
Overnight Linc closures start tonight for “urgent” repairs to overhead sign structures
The rolling closures will start in the westbound lanes tonight at 9 p.m. Work will continue overnight until 6 a.m.
Car goes up in flames on the green at the Dundas Valley Golf and Curling Club
Employees arriving for work at the club spotted the smouldering vehicle on the green and called 911.
Car goes up in flames on the green at the Dundas Valley Golf & Curling Club
Employees arriving for work at the club spotted the smouldering vehicle on the green and called 911.
Alcohol-linked ER visits by women and youth on the rise in Ontario, study suggests
Using diagnostic codes, they found conditions caused by alcohol use — including acute intoxication, alcohol dependence and withdrawal and alcoholic liver disease — were listed as a main or contributing factor in 765,346 ER visits.
Chamber recommends online booze sales as province modernizes alcohol laws
The Ontario chamber of commerce made the recommendations in a report Monday about the future of beer, wine, cider, and spirits sales — called Refreshing the Sale of Beverage Alcohol in Ontario.
Pioneering Native American author honoured with peace prize
Pioneering Native American author honoured with peace prize
Nissan bets that the boring sedan will be the next big thing
Over the past few decades, the auto industry, especially in North America, has been ditching four- and two-door passenger cars in favour of bigger vehicles
Parents of toddler who died in cruise ship fall blame Royal Caribbean
18-month-old Chloe Wiegand, died July 7 after falling from the 11th deck of Royal Caribbean International's Freedom of the Seas onto the concrete below
Justin Trudeau’s official residence becoming a costly ‘debacle,’ say Conservatives
The Tories accuse the Trudeau government of dithering over “critical” upgrades to 24 Sussex, which remains largely vacant nearly four years after the PM opted not to move in over concerns about its crumbling state.
Poor weather prevents attempt to free entangled North Atlantic right whale in Gulf of St. Lawrence
Federal officials issued a statement late Sunday saying the Campobello Whale Rescue Team was unable to help the 18-year-old whale, which has been tangled in fishing gear for at least two weeks.
Hamilton prepared bylaw to crack down on illegal fill dumping
"We have property owners flaunting the rules," said Stoney Creek Coun. Brad Clark.
Companies using technology to close the gender gap, but experts warn of pitfalls
There is concern the technology can be just as biased as the person who programmed it or the underlying information used.
Rolling closures on the Linc start tonight
Urgent overhead sign work will take five days to complete.
Rolling closures on the Linc start tonight
Overhead sign repair work will take five days to complete
Peel police upset by 911 complaint over ice cream truck in front of home
In a tweet posted Saturday, police noted the appropriate complaint number is 311.
OPP swoop down on fentanyl, cocaine traffickers in Simcoe
The four people charged range in age from 18 to 65.
Michigan beauty queen ousted over offensive Twitter posts, officials say
The tiara went to Kathy Zhu, but one day after she had been crowned Miss Michigan by the Miss World America organization, the beauty queen was stripped of her title.
Off Canada’s East Coast, a hunt to detect ‘beautiful’ great white sharks
Biologist Heather Bowlby says there’s been “a definite increase in sightings” since fishing rules of the past decade protected animals caught on long lines and in weirs.
As Loblaws turns 100, it looks at what’s next for big grocery
Market division president Greg Ramier on self-checkout, stocking local strawberries year-round and the future of the supermarket
Have you seen Nicole? Hamilton police seek help in locating missing woman
48-year-old Nicole Savoy was last seen July 11
Car goes up in flames on the green at the Dundas Valley Golf & Curling Club
Employees arriving for work at the club spotted the smouldering vehicle on the green and called 911.
A Hamilton (Hamliton?) sewer on Amelia Street has been letter imperfect ... for 67 years
A reflection on typos and such on sewer covers, inspired by a local one on Amelia Street that has the I and L in Hamilton wrongly inverted.
Introducing Ontario’s new health care super power
14 regional health districts will be replaced by Ontario Health, a new agency which will oversee everything from hospital and home care to cancer care and family medicine.
Wild Rose lessons for Ontario’s super health agencies
Super agency in Alberta did not result in a cheaper, more effective health-care system, says economist
A TOXIC DECISION?: Should Ontario reduce toxins — or reduce red tape?
The Toxics Reduction Act was the only program of its kind in Canada and would be a precedent for North America, South America, Asia and elsewhere — but the provincial government has repealed it.
Super Agency brings end to independent Cancer Care Ontario
The agency admired by health leaders around the world is losing its independance. Critics worry about long term impact on the care of cancer patients.
Recent cannabis use linked to memory problems, slower reaction time: Mac study
McMaster researcher says findings could have occupational significance
‘Back to more seasonal temperatures, and much less humidity’
Cooler temperatures in forecast for Hamilton following a weekend of high humidity and thunderstorms
Firefighters find man with no vital signs at Hamilton Mountain fire scene
Victim resuscitated on the way to hospital, now in ICU
Duelling rallies at Hamilton City Hall continue
Protesters gather in smaller numbers at Robert Morrow Forecourt.
Heather Mallick: Andrew Scheer is chicken about meat and milk
The fact that meat and milk will disappear with global heating is what Scheer should be telling cattle people. Diversify. Buy cheap stock in nut milk and lab-grown meat while you still can.
Budget cuts may affect University of Alaska climate researchers
University scrambling to determine where jobs will be eliminated if the Alaska Legislature does not intervene after loss of $130 million in university funding.
Trump team pauses enforcement of abortion restriction
The Trump administration is giving taxpayer-funded family planning clinics more time to comply with its new rule that says they no longer can refer women for abortions.
A Hamilton (Hamliton?) sewer on Amelia Street has been letter imperfect ... for 67 years
A reflection on typos and such on sewer covers, inspired by a local one on Amelia Street that has the I and L in Hamilton wrongly inverted.
Trudeau’s former secretary Gerald Butts working on Liberal campaign
Butts had resigned after suggestions he may have tried to influence a minister’s decision on SNC-Lavalin. He denied it and resigned to keep PMO without distraction, he said.
May says Greens will work with any party that has a serious climate plan
“People change their minds when they see the dynamic of a way a parliament is assembled and maybe think, ‘Killing carbon taxes isn’t such a good idea if the only way I get to be prime minister is by keeping them,’ ” May said.
Indigenous services minister to visit Attawapiskat at request of chief
The Northern Ontario reserve declared a state of emergency earlier this month due to concerns about chemical levels in the water.
Ukraine president aims to consolidate power in snap elections
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said that the snap parliamentary election should ‘speed up the reboot of the Ukrainian political system that has been mired in corruption.’
Japanese Canadians call on B.C. to go beyond mere apology for historic racism
The federal government apologized in 1988 for its racism against ‘enemy aliens’ after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in December 1941, but the head of the National Association of Japanese Canadians said B.C.’s apology in 2012 did not involve the community.
Venezuelan jet accused of aggressive action over Caribbean by U.S.
U.S. authorities said their EP-3 plane was performing a multi-nationally approved mission on Friday and the Venezuelan SU-30 fighter jet closely trailed the plane.
Ottawa fights planned class action against RCMP over bullying, intimidation
The federal government is fighting a proposed class-action lawsuit against the RCMP over bullying and intimidation of members.
Trump called ‘unindicted co-conspirator’ guilty of ‘high crimes and misdemeanours’
Two Democrats who will oversee this week’s hearings featuring former special counsel Robert Mueller on Sunday declared President Donald Trump an “unindicted co-conspirator” and accused him of high crimes and misdemeanours.
A year later, ceremony commemorates victims of the Danforth shooting
The names of the two people killed in a public shooting in Toronto’s Greektown last year were read aloud in a ceremony meant to honour their memory Sunday afternoon.
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