Ontario News

TORONTO — Two top political aides to former Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty pleaded not guilty Monday to charges over the destruction of internal emails about the Liberal government's costly cancellation of two gas plants.

GRIMSBY, Ont. — Andrew Peller Ltd. (TSX:ADW.A, TSX:ADW.B) said Monday it has signed deals to acquire three B.C. wineries for a combined price of $95 million.

WINNIPEG — A moose that was on the loose for two days in Winnipeg and almost delayed the start of a Canadian Football League game has died after being tranquilized.

TORONTO — Ontario's minister responsible for post-secondary education says 185,000 students have received free tuition this year under a new government program.

VANCOUVER — British Columbia Premier John Horgan says he has made a "full and fair apology" for remarks about the province's former liquefied natural gas advocate in reaction to a lawsuit claiming millions in damages against the B.C. government.

AIRDRIE, Alta. — Alberta RCMP have added a feather to their cap by coming to the rescue of a great horned owl entangled in a school soccer net.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia Power customers will be getting some money back over the next three years as a result of the delays in completing the Nalcor-owned Muskrat Falls generating station in Newfoundland and Labrador.

WINNIPEG — A man accused of sending letter bombs in the mail, including one that cost his ex-wife's lawyer her hand, pleaded not guilty Monday to five counts of attempted murder and to several explosives-related charges.

CANMORE, Alta. — The daughter of an Alberta woman who died in a grizzly bear attack in 2005 says she now has a better sense of how her mom felt in the moments before she died thanks to her own run-in with a notorious bear.

TORONTO — Air Canada says about 100 Canadians who had been barred by local authorities from a flight leaving Turks and Caicos will now be allowed to fly home.