As Ontario slowly emerges from its most recent COVID-19 shutdown, students and teachers will need to wait another month to take their usual mid-March break, Education Minister Stephen Lecce has announced.
Student suspensions for bullying at Hamilton public schools hit their highest level in at least a dozen years even with last spring’s COVID-19 shutdown and publicity surrounding an expert panel’s review of the problem.
As a growing number of Canada's many laws are adapted for the realm of the internet, lawmakers like federal Innovation, Science and Industry Minister Navdeep Bains believe some areas have been neglected.
'It smells, it's got garbage ... there should not be four people to a room:' family members of residents tell commission investigating COVID-19 outbreak at long-term care facilities.
Hamilton police have arrested a 28-year-old man in connection with a shooting involving a father and son in the area of Upper Sherman Avenue and the Lincoln Alexander Parkway.
The Hamilton Fire Department responded to a reported structure fire on Cooper Road in Flamborough on Feb. 9, but discovered upon arrival that it was an electrical issue.
Four trustees at the heart of an independent investigation that substantiated several of former student trustee’ Ahona Mehdi’s complaints about racist behaviour at Hamilton’s public school board may yet face discipline.
As a distance learning teacher, Sarah Gingerich is facing a new set of challenges when it comes to supporting her students’ mental health amid COVID-19.
Four trustees at the heart of an independent investigation that substantiated several of former student trustee’ Ahona Mehdi’s complaints about racist behaviour at Hamilton’s public school board may yet face discipline.
A survey showing about 70 per cent of gender-diverse, Two-Spirit and LGBTQIA+ students were abused at Hamilton public schools in the past year is being called both “shocking and unsurprising” by a community activist.
The Ontario government has announced that three public health units will be transitioning out of the provincewide shutdown and back into the former colour-coded framework this week.
Waterdown’s Sameer Kochhar wants to know why the new artificial turf field and track at Waterdown District High School is not open for free community use — particularly as the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown are causing people to struggle to find places to exercise.
The new, permanent home of Redemption Canadian Reformed Church is under construction near the intersection of Brock Road and Safari Road in Flamborough.
While the board erased the subject trustees’ names from the public version of the investigators’ 67-page report, Hamilton Community News has independently verified their identity.
School boards in Toronto, Peel and York will resume in-person learning on Feb. 16, provincial education minister Stephen Lecce announced on Feb. 3. Here is what a few concerned parents with the Ontario Parent Action Network had to say following the announcement.