Category: Hamilton News

TORONTO – A fourth person has declared her intention to run for the leadership of Ontario’s Progressive Conservative Party. But Tanya Granic Allen acknowledged Thursday that she first needs at least 100 party members to sign her nomination papers and donors to help her raise the $100,000 entry fee to enter the race. Granic Allen is president of Parents as First Educators, which lobbies against the sex-education curriculum in Ontario and is in favour of more parental control of…

Read More

If you have plans to travel in the GTA and southern Ontario on Friday, be prepared to give yourself extra time as a system will bring snowfall that could affect the afternoon commute. “A disturbance brewing over the southern plains states is expected to move towards Southern Ontario Thursday night and Friday, bringing another area of snow with it,” Environment Canada said in a special weather statement. Story continues below Forecasters said there could be four to eight centimetres…

Read More

Peel Regional Police say they’re looking for a male suspect who sexually assaulted a woman inside her Brampton home. Police said in a statement the incident happened “on or about” Monday. The 68-year-old woman was in her home, in the Knightsbridge Road and Central Park Drive area near Bramalea City Centre, when an unknown man came inside and allegedly sexually assaulted the woman before leaving the area. Officers described the man as being approximately 30 years old and having…

Read More

The search is continuing for a 49-year-old, off-duty Toronto firefighter who went missing while on an annual ski trip to Lake Placid, New York. The Toronto Professional Fire Fighters’ Association (TPFFA) told Global News Thursday the man went to the village, most known for hosting the 1980 Winter Olympics, for vacation and was joined by friends, family and other off-duty and retired firefighters. TPFFA President Frank Ramagnano said the group was skiing down Whiteface Mountain when they noticed the…

Read More

The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) issued a report this week with some ideas on how to calm soaring home prices in overheated cities like Toronto and Vancouver. And its main conclusion was familiar: encourage more supply. Coverage of Vancouver housing on Globalnews.ca: New ‘affordable’ Vancouver housing criticized The report was 225 pages long, and it was the result of “advanced, data-driven quantitative and statistical analyses” looking at a multitude of factors such as housing starts, population growth,…

Read More

February 8 2018 7:38pm Video shot by a Hamilton-area couple’s family shows Sandra Donaldson telling her husband “don’t freak out” before surprising him with their $23.3-million win. ‘ }); } else { var rel_id = svp.releaseInfo.contentId+””; if( typeof gnca_social_share_collection ); } }; // don’t do on IE, doesn’t work yet if ( !gNews.Common.isIE && !gNews.Common.isTrident…

Read More

February 8 2018 7:52pm Global News at 5:30 on Global Toronto for Thursday, February 8, 2018. Hosted by Alan Carter and Farah Nasser. ‘ }); } else { var rel_id = svp.releaseInfo.contentId+””; if( typeof gnca_social_share_collection ); } }; // don’t do on IE, doesn’t work yet if ( !gNews.Common.isIE && !gNews.Common.isTrident && gNews.Common.isFlash ) {…

Read More

The seeds of this ballooning debt load are already taking root — the Treasury Department said last month that it expects to borrow $955 billion this fiscal year and more than $1 trillion in both 2019 and 2020. That money appears set to get only more expensive to borrow, as the Federal Reserve looks to continue raising interest rates and investors demand higher returns from an increasingly debt-laden government. Indeed, the borrowing spree is contributing to recent volatility in…

Read More

February 8 2018 6:46pm Thu, Feb 8: Opposing a carbon tax not only kills the Ontario PC Party platform, it’s likely impossible to stop one. Alan Carter explains. ‘ }); } else { var rel_id = svp.releaseInfo.contentId+””; if( typeof gnca_social_share_collection ); } }; // don’t do on IE, doesn’t work yet if ( !gNews.Common.isIE &&…

Read More