Ontario News

Ten stories in the news for Monday, Feb.

ST. CATHARINES, Ont. — Already at the top of their game, Rachel Homan says her curling team was pushed to a new level to win this year's Canadian women's curling championship.

TORONTO — Two games since they rejigged their roster, the Toronto Raptors are marching back up the Eastern Conference standings — despite the absence of all-star guard Kyle Lowry.

SAULT STE MARIE, Ont. — Boris Katchouk scored twice to lead the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds to a 5-2 win over the North Bay Battalion in Ontario Hockey League action Sunday.

Winnipeg police say they're waiting for a forensic examination of a substance a man allegedly sprayed on a teenage girl in a shopping mall before deciding whether to lay charges. Investigators released a security image on Saturday from the St.

OTTAWA — And then there were two. Ontario MP Charlie Angus officially entered the NDP leadership race Sunday — a competition that's expected to start heating up soon with a debate scheduled for next month in Ottawa.

TORONTO — Tests on Kyle Lowry's sore right wrist showed no significant damage, the Toronto Raptors announced before Sunday's game against the visiting Portland Trail Blazers.

OTTAWA — Canada's immigration minister says he's not yet convinced a recent increase in the number of asylum seekers crossing the border illegally from the United States constitutes a growing trend, despite concerns raised by Manitoba that the situat

TORONTO — Sunrise Records is placing a major bet on Canadian music sales with plans to move into 70 retail spaces being vacated by HMV Canada. The Ontario-based music retail chain has negotiated new leases with mall landlords across the country.

HALIFAX — A roughly 10 metre segment hung in the fog over Halifax Harbour on Sunday to fill the 46th and final gap in the decades-old MacDonald Bridge in time for tens of thousands of cars to cross the bridge Monday morning.