Ontario News

OTTAWA — Long-time Canadian media executive John Cruickshank, the former publisher of the Toronto Star, has been named Canada's consul general to Chicago.

MONTREAL — A Montreal-area weekly newspaper has removed an editorial cartoon from its website depicting Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard stoning a former Muslim colleague.

OTTAWA — A new NATO report says Canada's defence spending increased in 2016, but that the country remains near the back of the pack when spending is expressed in the military alliance's preferred measure: as a percentage of GDP.

DETROIT — Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne and Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder say they want to be heard as U.S. President Donald Trump seeks to refashion American trading relationships with Canada and Mexico.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — A Newfoundland woman says she's lucky to be alive after a canoe came through the side of her house during the weekend windstorm that battered much of the province and left many without power through Monday.

TORONTO — Former Guantanamo Bay inmate Omar Khadr is recovering from a 19-hour operation on a shoulder that was badly injured in Afghanistan 15 years ago, his lawyer said Monday.

TORONTO — Ontario's top court will not hear an appeal from two former Nortel Networks Corp. employees on long-term disability who argued that a deal to divvy up a remaining US$7.3 billion in the bankrupt company's assets was unfair.

TORONTO — Canopy Growth Corporation (TSX:WEED) is being added to the influential S&P/TSX Composite Index in another milestone for Canada's fledgling marijuana industry.

EDMONTON — Scientists finally have been able to pin down when bison first arrived in North America and helped set the stage for the Great Plains that eventually supported the continent's first humans.

COCHRANE, Ont. — Provincial police say they've laid multiple charges in a historical sexual assault case in the northern Ontario town of Cochrane. Police released few details, saying only that the alleged incidents took place about 20 years ago.