Ontario News

KENTVILLE, N.S. — A debate sweeping the country over the naming of monuments and places after contentious historical figures has found a new flashpoint in rural Nova Scotia.

MONTREAL — One of Canada's former poet laureates is being accused of plagiarizing the works of illustrious English-language authors in a book that has since been taken off the shelves. U.K.

PISQUID, P.E.I. — A P.E.I. man was arrested after allegedly driving a farm tractor while twice the legal alcohol limit.

MELFORT, Sask. — A judge who sent a truck driver to prison on Monday for speeding through a construction zone and killing three teenagers said no sentence can relieve the overwhelming pain felt by their families.

OTTAWA — Statistics Canada will offer a detailed look Wednesday at the size of the gap between the country's top income earners and those toiling at the bottom — a chasm that appears to be narrowing but remains far too wide for many to easily cross.

TORONTO — Ontario politicians returned to the legislature Monday after a three-month summer break under the shadow of two Liberal trials happening simultaneously in Toronto and Sudbury.

TORONTO — Ontario's marijuana plan was rushed out in an attempt to distract from a pair of high-profile trials involving Liberal party workers, the province's opposition parties said Monday as the legislature resumed.

MONTREAL — Canada's chess federation says it has filed a formal complaint over the treatment of a Canadian grandmaster at a signature event just minutes before he was to play one of the biggest matches of his career.

VANCOUVER — A new report concludes that it would be cheaper to cancel the Site C dam than to delay the $8.8-billion megaproject in northeast British Columbia.

TORONTO — Ontario is putting $200 million to supportive housing over three years, with almost half of that money going to Toronto.