Ontario News

TORONTO — The Toronto Stock Exchange's main index closed little changed on Friday as a news report alleging illegal practices at TD Bank dragged down the financial sector on a day that otherwise saw strong economic news.

BANFF, Alta. — Federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna is supporting a greater role for First Nations in creating new protected areas and managing the ones Canada already has. Speaking Friday at a parks conference in Banff, Alta.

OTTAWA — Ontario, Quebec, and Alberta have inked health care arrangements with the Trudeau government following months of negotiations.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. government hopes to take the first formal step in renegotiating NAFTA within the next couple of weeks, setting the stage for actual negotiations with Canada and Mexico later this year.

OTTAWA — Colleagues of all political stripes pilloried Don Meredith and urged the controversial Conservative senator to give up his Senate seat Friday following an explosive ethics investigation of his sexual relationship with a 16-year-old girl.

Highlights from the news file for Friday, March 10 ——— PRIVACY CZAR WANTS STRONGER PROTECTIONS FOR CANADIANS IN U.S.: Privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien says the Trudeau government should press the U.S.

TORONTO — Another season of "Schitt's Creek" is headed to CBC-TV next year. The network says the hit comedy series, created by Eugene Levy and his son Dan, will return for another round of episodes in 2018.

HOUSTON — Boosting confidence in both the energy industry and the environmental regulators that oversee it will help attract investment in Canadian natural resources over the long run, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday as he wrapped up two da

MONTREAL — A man accused in an alleged bomb threat against Muslim students at Concordia University was granted bail Friday under a lengthy list of conditions.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia is taking initial steps to head off a British Columbia-style epidemic of fentanyl overdose deaths. The province's chief medical officer of health said $1.