No formal complaint against Wilfrid Laurier student Lindsay Shepherd, lawyer...
The lawyer engaged by Wilfrid Laurier University to prepare a fact-finding report into a controversial reprimand of graduate student Lindsay Shepherd has confirmed there was never a formal complaint...
View ArticleExpanded Greenbelt raises questions
— Waterloo Region’s farmers, rural townships and municipal planners are trying to figure out what a proposed expansion of Ontario’s Greenbelt could mean for restrictions on land use in this region.
View ArticleAfter 25 years, migrant worker’s hope to keep working in Hamilton-area fades...
Jesus Rosas Flores, 63, had both legs amputated below the knee after a workplace accident at a farm outside Waterdown Nov. 3.
View ArticleSecond arrest in shooting death of Yosif Al-Hasnawi
Police say more information is coming after an arrest Thursday evening.
View ArticleGO Train motion stirs politics
Kitchener Centre Liberal MPP Daiene Vernile says a successful private member’s motion — asking the Liberal government, by April, to commit to clear funding and timelines for all-day, two-way Go Train...
View ArticleThree deaths, one police officer and a chilling confession
Light snow had fallen from the pre-dawn blackness the morning an off-duty officer pulled up to his police station for an unannounced visit. He stepped out of his black Ford Explorer and passed through...
View ArticleNiagara Region apologizes for taking reporter’s notes
The chief administrative officer of the Niagara Region issued a public apology for the inconvenience caused to a journalist by the seizure of his computer and notes during Thursday night’s council...
View ArticleBERTON: Journalists are not those you see in movies
If it wasn’t such a serious business, it would be funny.
View ArticleMan arrested after stealing police cruiser
Hamilton Police have arrested a man after he stole a marked police cruiser downtown early Saturday morning.
View ArticleJournalists are not those you see in movies
If it wasn’t such a serious business, it would be funny, writes Paul Berton
View ArticleCommunity rallies behind Six Nations family who lost son, home to massive fire
Certain items like cutlery, food and paper products are still be collected in tomorrow at the James Street Armouries.
View ArticleHamilton song writer, pianist, teacher Carl Horton dead at 57
Local song writer, pianist, dies of a heart attack at 57.
View ArticleThe killer: The warning signs were there
When Derrick Lawlor fatally strangled a gay man in Kitchener in 2014, no one should have been surprised.
View ArticleFood bank truck ticketed $1,000 after New Hamburg Santa parade
Moments after dropping off food drive donations collected during the New Hamburg Santa Claus Parade, police gave Mike Hoffman several charges on the dump truck and trailer used to carry the donations.
View ArticleKeep an eye on city plows with Guelph's Plow Tracker
With the city expecting to receive between five and 10 centimetres of snow by Tuesday morning, many residents will be asking one question: when is the plow going to clear my street? The City of...
View Article‘I am not a monster,’ says woman who filmed sex assault of 7-year-old
Three others have been sentenced for the Craigslist scheme in which a child was sexually abused from June 2015 to April 2016.
View ArticleWho is Lindsay Shepherd?
For about a month a Wilfrid Laurier graduate student has managed to make headlines across the country and internationally.
View ArticleDogs rescued from South Korean meat farm make pit stop in Cambridge
Dogs rescued from the “constant misery and deprivation” of a South Korean dog meat farm made a stop in Cambridge for veterinary care before heading on to adoption agencies.
View Article‘The magic is still there,’ says a Hamilton Santa ‘even as the world gets crazy’
You’ve heard perhaps of the “milk of human kindness” (thank you, Shakespeare, for that beautiful phrase). But what about the syrup of Christmas cheer?
View ArticleTo sort out truth from pre-election fiction, turn to Bonnie Lysyk
The person in Ontario’s political system whose work is most centred on the interests of its people isn’t Premier Kathleen Wynne, nor any of the leaders of the opposition parties.
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