Ontario News

RICHMOND HILL, Ont. — DesRosiers Automotive Consultants says Canadian auto sales hit a new monthly high for February. The consulting firm says sales of cars and light trucks totalled 123,032 last month, up 3.2 per cent from the same month last year.

YELLOWKNIFE — A Northwest Territories cabinet minister says recommendations from an investigation into an elder's death will help address systemic racism in health-care delivery.

VANCOUVER — A proposed settlement has been reached in a lawsuit filed by a woman who alleges her daughter suffered a birth defect after she was prescribed the anti-depressant Paxil during pregnancy.

DONKIN, N.S. — Absent for almost a generation, a way of life has returned to Cape Breton.

WASHINGTON — The flurry of Canadian cabinet members visiting Washington continued apace Wednesday as Finance Minister Bill Morneau dropped in on a U.S. capital awash in policy debates with big implications for America's northern neighbour.

TORONTO — The head of the Air Miles rewards program is apologizing for failing its members, three months after it provoked a controversy over changes to its expiration policy.

MONTREAL — The Competition Bureau, in conjunction with the Better Business Bureau, Quebec-based consumers group Option consommateurs and other fraud-prevention partners announced Wednesday the top 10 fraud scams targeting Canadians in 2016.

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — The Special Investigations Unit is probing the circumstances of a traffic stop on Highway 401 that left a transport truck driver with a foot injury.

An Ontario family has gone to the province's human rights tribunal to fight for their autistic son's right to bring his service animal into class.

TORONTO — The discovery of swastikas inside an Ontario university classroom this week has left some students feeling distraught, the school calling the symbols "hate graffiti" and police investigating what happened.