Ontario News

TORONTO — Canadian pop star Shawn Mendes has been cast in filmmaker Ivan Reitman's upcoming musical "Summer of Love." Reitman's Montecito Picture Co., confirmed the news to The Canadian Press on Tuesday.

CARAQUET, N.B. — Four men are facing charges after a million dollars worth of lobster was stolen from a New Brunswick seafood company last Canada Day.

MONTREAL — The World Anti-Doping Agency says it is keeping its headquarters in Montreal until at least 2021. WADA director general Olivier Niggli made the announcement in Lausanne on Tuesday.

TORONTO — Slumping oil prices dragged Canada's main stock index lower Tuesday as the price of crude fell for a seventh straight day in a row. The Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX composite index pulled back 165.

Highlights from the news file for Tuesday, March 14 ——— GET TOUGH ON CANADA, TRUMP PICK TOLD: U.S. President Donald Trump's pick for trade secretary is being urged to get tough with Canada.

CANSO, N.S. — It's a 400-year-old Nova Scotia fishing village struggling to stay afloat — times have been so tough the town was dissolved five years ago. Now, tiny Canso is being touted as the future home of Canada's only commercial spaceport.

TORONTO — A weed cookie-dealing stoner teen may not seem like your typical hero, but the fictional high school burnout proves he's got plenty of heart in Eden Robinson's "Son of a Trickster.

TORONTO — Star striker Sebastian Giovinco received treatment for a painful charley horse Tuesday as his Toronto FC teammates trained in advance of this week's trip to Vancouver. With a long plane ride leading to an artificial field at B.C.

CALGARY — An Alberta private school that five years ago was found to have discriminated against two Muslim students by not allowing them to pray is running much the same as it always has, says the school's founder.

TORONTO — A judge who referenced research on gendered violence in convicting a Toronto man of sexual assault appeared to be biased against him, the man's lawyers alleged Tuesday at his appeal hearing.