Ontario News

TORONTO — Ontario electricity ratepayers will learn Thursday how the Liberal government plans to reduce their bills, which reportedly includes a move akin to refinancing a mortgage that's being slammed as just kicking costs down the road.

TORONTO — Tony Fonseca is out as director of high performance at the Canadian Soccer Association. The CSA said in a three-paragraph statement Wednesday that Fonseca had been released "effective immediately.

MONTREAL — No one expected P.K. Subban to slide quietly into town for his first game against the Montreal Canadiens, but what a splash the flashy defenceman made on Wednesday.

MONTREAL — Canadian pension funds are well-placed to help rebuild America's aging infrastructure, a former director of U.S. President Donald Trump's transition team said Wednesday.

TORONTO — The outgoing CEO of Torstar says his replacement will have to review how much more money to invest in Star Touch, the Toronto Star's tablet edition that was intended to capture more readers when it launched a year and a half ago.

EDMONTON — A mentally ill man who is accused of killing two co-workers and wounding four others at a grocery warehouse says he attacked the men to get help.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — A retired judge hired to independently observe an RCMP probe into the police shooting of Don Dunphy contradicted his own report Wednesday, saying he now believes the investigation was biased.

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. — Police are asking for help in locating a man who has been missing since the Fort McMurray wildfire in northern Alberta last spring.

TORONTO — The creative team behind a controversial new play based on the police interrogation of convicted sex killer Russell Williams says they're coming from a place of empathy.

HALIFAX — Police in Atlantic Canada's largest city are warning drug users their lives are at risk because of the emerging presence of illicit fentanyl on the streets.