Ontario News

MONTREAL — During the summers of 2015 and 2016 McGill University professor Jason Carmichael tried to study what factors influenced sentencing outcomes for people convicted of drunk driving — but he ran into a problem.

VANCOUVER — Illicit drugs have always been a problem in port cities, but experts say the emergence of highly potent synthetic opioids that are fuelling British Columbia's overdose crisis are slipping through borders in new ways, presenting challenges

TORONTO — The Toronto police homicide unit has a new case. Investigators say a man in his 20s is dead after he was shot in a parking lot in the city's Thorncliffe Park neighbourhood early Saturday evening.

TORONTO — There is one winning ticket for the $5 million jackpot in Saturday night's Lotto 649 draw, and it was sold somewhere in Ontario. The winning ticket for the draw's guaranteed $1 million prize was also purchased in Ontario.

TORONTO — "Desperate" hockey helped the teetering Montreal Canadiens score a big two points on Saturday night.

ST. CATHARINES, Ont. — Manitoba's Michelle Englot needs to beat Ontario's Rachel Homan one more time for a Canadian women's curling title.

OTTAWA — Sasha Chmelevski scored 22 seconds into overtime to lift the Ottawa 67's to a 5-4 win over the Hamilton Bulldogs on Saturday in Ontario Hockey League action. Chmelevski also had two assists for a three-point night.

TORONTO — The CBC-TV comedy series "Kim's Convenience" won major awards from Canada's performers union on Saturday.

CALGARY — WestJet says early results of an investigation into an ice chunk that crashed through a Calgary home indicate one of its planes is to blame.

TORONTO — The Transportation Safety Board is investigating after an Air Canada plane briefly left the runway while landing at Toronto Pearson Airport.