The Hamilton Conservation Authority is advertising for lifeguards and other summer help at Wild Waterworks, but successful applicants may want a backup plan.
It's been one year since Ontario reported Canada's first case of COVID-19. The patient, treated at Sunnybrook Hospital, was a 56-year-old Toronto man who had recently returned from a three-month stay in Wuhan, China.
Venetian Meat and Salami Company says it hopes to move into its new Winona plant this September, adding up to 10 new jobs as it increases production and retail capacity from the current location on Burlington Street East in Hamilton.
The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) is investigating after a pursuit ended in a collision with a Halton Regional Police Service cruiser on Highway 5 in Flamborough on Jan. 24.
The Ontario government has announced new plans for vaccine allocation, as a result of the current delivery shortage of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines across the country.
A Hamilton home care company is appealing to workers recently displaced from the hospitality and retail sectors as it looks to add 25 care giver positions.
As the provincewide lockdown and Stay-at-Home order continues, many dog owners are wondering what they are allowed to do when it comes to their canine companions.
A coalition of 100 health-care organizations and relatives of long-term care residents is accusing the provincial government of downplaying what it says is a deadly crisis in Ontario's long-term care (LTC) system.
As the thermometer continues to dip, the Ontario SPCA and Humane Society reminds pet guardians to take extra precautions to keep animals safe during cold weather.
Medical experts at SickKids hospital have updated their report on guidelines for returning to school amid COVID-19 in Ontario, which include changes to testing, screening, masking and physical distancing recommendations.
Threshold will be reached if new form of virus becomes established in the population and the Province sticks to its plan to reopen all schools on Feb. 10, forecasting shows
There's no better time of year than winter to catch a glimpse of your own breath suspended and swirling in the cold air. In someone infected with COVID-19, do the tiny droplets exhaled in that vapour contain enough viral particles to infect another person before they gradually settle to the ground, potentially tens of metres away?The Government of Canada recently acknowledged the risk that COVID-19 can spread through tiny, aerosolized respiratory droplets that hang in the air.
Hamilton’s public school board isn’t expecting to see the return of about a third of the 1,714 missing elementary students whose absence created a big budget headache in the fall before a $14-million bailout from the province.
Schools in Grey Bruce, Peterborough, Haliburton and Kingston are among those in southern Ontario allowed to open their doors to students to attend class in person, starting Monday.
Last summer, as Ontario’s schools were preparing to reopen, the Ministry of Education drafted a memo to school officials, highlighting COVID testing as critical to keeping classrooms safe.
Hamilton police are trying to identify two suspects who robbed a pharmacy on the east Mountain just before 6 p.m. on Jan. 8, a pharmacy in the west end on Jan. 18 and then another pharmacy on the west Mountain on Jan. 19.
Ultraviolet light is at least as old as the sun, but as recently as 2020 humans continue to find new ways to harness its power. One particular band of UV radiation, UVC, is a known disinfectant that has been used for decades to sterilize air, water and nonporous surfaces.
What constitutes a hate crime varies among police agencies across the country — there is not one single, unified definition that police use to identify, investigate or charge someone with a hate crime.
If you don’t see a difference in skin colour, are you racist? If your heterosexual partner makes an inappropriate joke about your gay friend in public, will you defend your friend, or laugh with your partner? Are you a BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, person of colour) ally? Or a co-conspirator? Let’s break it down as we learn one Lanark County woman’s story.