News/Canada/Hamilton (Page 12)

Hamilton Award-winning journalist and member of the Fort William First Nation, Tanya Talaga, will be in Hamilton on Oct. 10 to discuss her new book and docuseries, The Knowing, with director of the McMaster Indigenous Research Institute, Dr. Savage Bear. Talaga’s new book ‘The Knowing’ came out Aug. 27 AuraContinue Reading

Hamilton Another beluga whale has died at Marineland and four years into a provincial probe, Ontario’s solicitor general is saying little about the investigation’s progress. Ontario’s Animal Welfare Services launched an investigation into Marineland in 2020 Liam Casey · The Canadian Press · Posted: Oct 09, 2024 7:59 AM EDTContinue Reading

Hamilton Parents and coach brawl at kids’ hockey tourney in Hamilton, prompting refs to halt gameA hockey game involving players seven and eight years old came to a halt at a Hamilton arena after parents and at least one coach became involved in a brawl behind the boards. Sunday off-iceContinue Reading

Hamilton Brantford, Ont.-area child dies from rabies after contact with a bat, health official saysThe child, from the Brantford area, was in hospital last month after acquiring rabies in northern Ontario. The public is advised to seek immediate medical attention if you came in contact with bats Samantha Beattie ·Continue Reading

Hamilton McMaster Children’s Hospital says it will resume tonsil and adenoid surgeries next week, almost four months after two children died following the procedure. Pediatric tonsil and adenoid surgeries were paused at the hospital on June 4, 2024 Hannah Alberga · The Canadian Press · Posted: Oct 01, 2024 10:57Continue Reading

Their house is four years old, but a Fort Erie, Ont., couple say it was so badly constructed that they have no choice but to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to tear it down.  “I can’t stress how much our life is ruined, literally ruined, right now,” Carolynn Mayers,Continue Reading

Hamilton Wayward duck in Niagara draws mad rush of birders looking to photograph the ‘mega-rarity’A cinnamon teal that’s rarely seen in Ontario has been spotted in a Grimsby, Ont., wetland. Local birders estimate over 200 people have come to see the small duck, which is being treated as a celebrityContinue Reading

Hamilton How teams in the Hamilton area are fighting dog-strangling vine and other invasive speciesIn Norfolk County, Hamilton and Burlington in Ontario, teams are working to control invasive dog-strangling vine, Japanese knotweed and the hemlock woolly adelgid, among other non-native species. Vines produce chemicals that enter soil and inhibit nativeContinue Reading

Hamilton A resident of Brantford-Brant is currently hospitalized with rabies. The health unit says it’s the first case in Brantford-Brant ever and the first in Ontario since 1967. Suspected exposure was from a bat in Gowganda area of the Timiskaming regionCBC News · Posted: Sep 06, 2024 3:54 PM EDTContinue Reading