Ontario News

OTTAWA — With stock markets trading at or near all-time highs, robo-advisers are working at educating clients to remain focused on their plan even when an inevitable market correction comes.

TORONTO — Employees with the Canadian Hearing Society have launched strike action. The Canadian Union of Public Employees says management rejected all of the union's proposals and the 227 employees had no choice.

A million-dollar mansion in Canada may be anything but that, according to a report released today by a Canadian real estate company.

WINNIPEG — Bundled against bone-chilling cold, asylum-seekers hoping to gain refugee status in Canada have been trudging through ditches and fields along the border with the United States.

Many African asylum-seekers who end up in Canada face an arduous, months-long journey through thousands of kilometres of jungle, along back roads and over water in small wooden boats.

Five stories in the news for Monday, March 6: ——— REFUGEES HAVE BETTER ODDS FINDING HOME IN CANADA Some immigration lawyers say asylum seekers have been braving the cold to illegally cross the American border because they feel Canada is a better bet

OTTAWA — Reliever John Axford withdrew from Canada's World Baseball Classic team on Sunday due to personal and professional reasons. Axford, from Port Dover, Ont., had a 6-4 record with three saves, a 3.

PORT HARDY, B.C. — The leader of a First Nation off the north coast of Vancouver Island says he's worried about the impact a fuel spill at a nearby fish farm will have on his community's food source.

LONDON, Ont. — Award-winning Canadian author Bonnie Burnard is being remembered for her strong views and care for words. Burnard died Saturday at the age of 72.

OTTAWA — The Montreal Canadiennes' Clarkson Cup championship was a year in the making. Marie-Philip Poulin scored twice, including into an empty net, as Montreal claimed its fourth Clarkson Cup title with a 3-1 win over the Calgary Inferno on Sunday.