Ontario News

OTTAWA — Canada's Beijing-bound ambassador says the government will have to sell any possible Canada-China free trade to Canadian workers in order to overcome rising anti-trade sentiment.

TORONTO — Throughout his legendary career Gordie Howe looked out for his teammates. It's only fitting that a smiling statue of the man known as Mr. Hockey now watches over visitors to the Hockey Hall of Fame.

BURLINGTON, Ont. — It was a very expensive collision. Police say a luxury sports car valued at more than $300,000 slammed into a hydro transformer in Burlington, Ont., on Thursday night.

TORONTO — A Canadian meat processor must pay a $6,000 penalty for allowing thousands of free-range hens on their way to slaughter to suffer in frigid conditions, the Federal Court of Appeal has ruled.

MONTREAL — Resolute Forest Products says that its Thorold newsprint manufacturing plant in southern Ontario will remain idle indefinitely — extending a shutdown that began late last year.

ST. THOMAS, Ont. — Police in St. Thomas, Ont., say six people are facing charges after a "large quantity" of crystal methamphetamine was seized during a traffic stop. They say a truck was stopped on Thursday afternoon in St.

TORONTO — Former Barenaked Ladies frontman Steven Page, Sloan's Chris Murphy, Odds co-founder Craig Northey and Moe Berg of the Pursuit of Happiness are coming together under the band name the Trans-Canada Highwaymen for eight shows in Ontario in Apr

WINDSOR, Ont. — A southern Ontario humane society is trying to find out who starved a dog to death and is offering a $500 reward for information leading to charges against the abuser.

TORONTO — A frantic search for a four-year-old girl who disappeared when her family car was stolen from the driveway of her Toronto home ended Friday morning when she was reunited with her parents after going missing for more than three hours.

OTTAWA — Canada's unemployment rate dropped to 6.6 per cent last month, its lowest level in more than two years, Statistics Canada said Friday, as the economy created more jobs than expected even with fewer people looking for work.