The move offers relief for those struggling with online classes and families who were driving for hours and paying to stay in hotel rooms so their children could learn in-person. But it comes with increased COVID-19 measures and a designation as a high-risk congregate setting.
The city now says plywood it erected to block homeless people from hot air vents behind Hamilton City Hall was set up without a necessary building permit and using the wrong material. It has now been replace with more 'fire-resistant' material, it says.
Joyce Leung is using cooking classes to help people connect to Asian culture. Her Saturday class focuses on dumplings, ahead of Lunar New Year.
Environment Canada has issued an extreme cold warning for Hamilton and the surrounding area with the wind chill expected to make it feel as cold as –35 C on Friday.
Hamilton continues to be a city of choice for newcomers to Canada, as well as Canadians leaving bigger cities like Toronto, new data from Statistics Canada shows.
The 37-year-old Hamilton man is facing two counts of arson causing damage to property and one count of arson with disregard for human life, according to investigators.
A hospital network in Hamilton has fired 138 workers because they refused to get fully vaccinated for COVID-19.
The Survivors' Secretariat at Six Nations is working to create a community archive that outlines the full history of the former Mohawk Institute Residential School in Brantford, but says the Archives of Ontario are being dismissive.
Some parents are spending hours on the road and thousands to stay in hotels to get their children to in-person classes at Ontario's only English-language school for blind, visually impaired and deaf-blind students. The alternative is online learning, something they say presents challenges.
A vaccine collaboration between McMaster University in Hamilton and a former Chinese partner stalled years ago and they are now independently racing to develop similar COVID-19 boosters, The Fifth Estate has found.