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• Budgetary transparency report card gives Hamilton city hall an 'F'

  18-04-2025 17:00 via cbc.ca
  
  A report looking at fiscal accountability and transparency in Canadian municipalities has given Hamilton a failing grade – one of only four out of the country’s 32 largest cities to receive such low marks. The city says the ransomware attack impacted that score.
  
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• Hamilton water operators go on strike demanding better pay from the city

  14-05-2025 16:06 via cbc.ca
  
  Union says 54 workers have walked off the job after they failed to reach a collective bargaining agreement with the City of Hamilton by Tuesday night.
  
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• Woman expected to face more questions from prosecutors in hockey players’ trial

  14-05-2025 12:48 via globalnews.ca
  
  A woman who alleges she was sexually assaulted by five former members of Canada's world junior hockey team is expected to face more questions from prosecutors.
  
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• Ontario electricity produced with rising percentage of greenhouse-gas-emitting power

  14-05-2025 12:26 via globalnews.ca
  
  Ontario's electricity is now being produced with the highest percentage of greenhouse-gas-emitting power since coal plants were operating in the province.
  
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• 2 MPPs want to create foodbelt to protect farmland, tariff-proof Ontario's agricultural industry

  14-05-2025 12:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Guelph MPP and Green Leader Mike Schreiner and independent MPP Bobbi Ann Brady from Haldimand-Norfolk have co-written a bill to create an Ontario Foodbelt which would protect farmlands.
  
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• Yemeni terror suspect placed under house arrest at Toronto mosque

  14-05-2025 11:00 via globalnews.ca
  
  The RCMP has accused Husam Taha Ali Al-Sewaiee of trying to leave Canada to join a terror group.
  
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• Battery plant in Port Colborne, Ont., to see 'minimal' impact from Honda investment withdrawal: partner

  14-05-2025 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  In 2024, Japanese multinational Asahi Kasei Corporation and Honda Canada formed a joint venture to make battery separators in Niagara. Despite Honda pausing $15 billion in EV investments, Asahi Kasei says the project should continue with 'minimal' impact.
  
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• Daulton Varsho has never hit the ball harder

  14-05-2025 05:21 via globalnews.ca
  
  Daulton Varsho has never swung the bat harder and it's all thanks to a small adjustment at the plate.
  
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• Caminero’s ninth inning grand slam leads Rays

  14-05-2025 04:12 via globalnews.ca
  
  Junior Caminero's ninth inning grand slam bounced off the scoreboard on the third deck of Rogers Centre to hand the Tampa Bay Rays a 11-9 win over the Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday.
  
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• Leafs, Panthers set for Game 5 with series tied

  13-05-2025 22:24 via globalnews.ca
  
  Craig Berube barked orders from the centre circle. 
  
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• Toronto euthanizes 2 coyotes after attacks reported in Fort York and Liberty Village

  13-05-2025 21:58 via globalnews.ca
  
  A pair of coyotes have been euthanized after a number of reported attacks in the Fort York and Liberty Village neighbourhoods, the City of Toronto said Tuesday.
  
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• Ontario mayor remains hopeful Honda’s EV plant will be built, despite delay

  13-05-2025 20:43 via globalnews.ca
  
  New Tecumseth Mayor Richard Norcross says he is disappointed with Honda's decision but he will continue to advocate for the project, which was expected to create about 1,000 jobs. 
  
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• Dresden locals, First Nations take landfill fight to Queen’s Park

  13-05-2025 20:33 via globalnews.ca
  
  The chair of a local advocacy group says the community feels betrayed by the decision to cancel an environmental assessment for the landfill just north of Dresden, Ont.
  
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• 4-time Olympic medallist Adam van Koeverden to oversee sport in PM Carney's new cabinet

  13-05-2025 20:33 via cbc.ca
  
  Canadian kayak legend Adam van Koeverden, who recently was elected to a third term as a Member of Parliament, was named Secretary of State for Sport on Tuesday in Prime Minister Mark Carney's new cabinet.
  
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• Florida Panthers vice chairman suspended by NHL over ‘unacceptable’ social media posts

  13-05-2025 20:08 via globalnews.ca
  
  The NHL has suspended Florida Panthers' Doug Cifu in response to inappropriate posts on Cifu’s now-shuttered social media account.
  
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• How much are Ontario hospitals spending on private staffing agencies?

  13-05-2025 20:02 via cbc.ca
  Ontario’s public hospitals are spending "exorbitant" amounts of money on for-profit staffing agencies. That’s according to a new study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. CBC's Dale Manucdoc breaks down the data — and reaction to the new findings.
  
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• Leafs’ Stolarz skates before practice

  13-05-2025 19:10 via globalnews.ca
  The Maple Leafs saw a familiar face Tuesday.
  
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• Ontario students warned over ‘senior assassin’ game after high school lockdown

  13-05-2025 18:57 via globalnews.ca
  Guelph police are following in the footsteps of many police departments in the U.S. by issuing a warning to students about playing the senior assassin game.
  
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• Ford government confirms removal of tolls on part of Highway 407

  13-05-2025 16:11 via globalnews.ca
  On Tuesday, the province announced it would remove the tolls from Highway 407 East, which runs through Durham Region from Brock Road to Highway 35/155, beginning on June 1.
  
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• Ticats head coach Milanovich confirms Greg Bell will be the club's starting running back

  13-05-2025 14:34 via cbc.ca
  Scott Milanovich quickly removed any doubt regarding who will be the Hamilton Tiger-Cats' starting running back this season.
  
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• Honda postpones $15B of electric vehicle investments in Ontario

  13-05-2025 14:16 via globalnews.ca
  Honda Canada is postponing a $15-billion electric vehicle investment project in Ontario, including a proposed EV battery plant and retooled vehicle assembly facility.
  
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• Honda Canada postpones $15-billion EV investment project in Ontario

  13-05-2025 14:16 via globalnews.ca
  Honda Canada is postponing a $15-billion electric vehicle investment project in Ontario, including a proposed EV battery plant and retooled vehicle assembly facility.
  
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• No bail for Halifax teen facing 33 charges related to firearms, threats

  13-05-2025 13:45 via globalnews.ca
  A youth court judge has denied bail for a Halifax teenager facing 33 charges including uttering threats.
  
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• Day 2 of bail hearing for N.S. teen facing 33 charges related to firearms, threats

  13-05-2025 13:45 via globalnews.ca
  A bail hearing is entering its second day today for a Halifax teenager facing 33 charges including uttering threats.
  
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• How 2 foes came together to pitch Ontario a new approach to the housing crisis

  13-05-2025 12:00 via globalnews.ca
  A group representing developers and another lobbying for municipalities got together to find common ground on housing. Then they sent their ideas to the Ford government.
  
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• 'Where do you want us to go?' People living along Hamilton's rail trail hide as city says they must leave

  13-05-2025 10:00 via cbc.ca
  When couple Margaret de Jong and Calvin Graham got a city notice ordering them to leave their rail trail encampment last week, they say they had no choice but to retreat deeper into the forested side of the escarpment. 
  
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• Family of Hamilton city worker killed on the job raises money for others: 'He would have loved this'

  13-05-2025 10:00 via cbc.ca
  After Nabil El-Ahmed was killed on the job in Hamilton in April, his family launched a fundraiser in his name. They're honouring his legacy by supporting humanitarian causes and hoping to find ways to better protect workers like him.
  
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• Raptors drop down to ninth after draft lottery

  13-05-2025 01:26 via globalnews.ca
  The Toronto Raptors will draft ninth overall in this summer's NBA Draft.
  
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• After Ontario backtracks on landfill study, Liberals seek probe into donor links

  12-05-2025 22:45 via globalnews.ca
  The Liberals want the integrity commissioner to look at whether Doug Ford’s government gave the project special treatment because its developers are lucrative donors to his party.
  
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• Trial begins for OPP officer accused of manslaughter in death of 24-year-old Six Nations man

  12-05-2025 22:33 via cbc.ca
  An Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officer is facing a judge-alone trial into a fatal shooting of a man in Chatham-Kent in July 2021. Const. Sean O'Rourke is charged with manslaughter. He has pleaded not guilty. 
  
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