An unprecedented number of trials in Hamilton’s Ontario Court of Justice — including a homicide — are in jeopardy of being tossed out because of the backlogged system is setting dates beyond the legal time limit.

Michelle Capriotti’s mother died in early 2021 during a COVID outbreak at the Westdale long-term care home; she wonders how the facility can still be flagged for not following ministry protocols for infection prevention in February 2022.

Ken O’Leary was walking, talking and preparing for a cruise. After being admitted to the Burlington hospital, he rapidly declined. Four months later, he was dead in a hospice. The hospital says he received ‘appropriate care.’

With no place to call home since August, it has been a long, trying haul. But Carla Fakes hopes the ordeal will be a foggy memory — if at all — for her grandchildren. 

Fewer tents are visible amid ramped-up bylaw enforcement but the crisis persists. When the strangers approached late one night to ask her to break a $50 bill, dog and owner alike sensed danger.

She remembers hearing shouts of “get down, get down” before her captors started running. She wondered if they were being robbed. Then she realized it was Hamilton police. She was being rescued. 

Inspection reports reveal Amica neglected the 91-year-old resident, failing to do required wellness checks.

Messages, shoes, and teddy bears are still on the steps of the Mohawk Institute, a former residential school in Brantford. Melanie Ng shares three survivor stories and three generations of trauma.

Villa Italia executive director Pat Mostacci, former chair of Festitalia, is accused of being the architect of a seven-year-long fraud and embezzlement plot.

An inquiry into Hamilton’s Red Hill Valley Parkway reveals how officials focused on liability — not safety or transparency — when releasing a friction report about the road where people were dying in crashes.

When the May 12 windstorm hit parts of Ontario, the Examiner was the only media outlet in the area able to access electricity and working internet.

This story involving QAnon “Queen” Romana Didulo made international news after her supporters tried to ‘arrest’ police.