Ontario News

MONTREAL — The Quebec government is broadening its investigation into allegations of corruption and wrongdoing within the Montreal police force, Public Security Minister Martin Coiteux announced Friday.

TORONTO — Canada's largest stock market racked up its biggest one-day loss in five months Friday as a broad-based decline across all sectors and disappointing corporate earnings pulled the commodity-heavy index lower.

TORONTO — Canadian international Maxim Tissot has signed with D.C. United. The 24-year-old defender-midfielder from Gatineau, Que., had been on trial with the MLS club.

TORONTO — Public health officials and infectious disease experts are urging Canadians to check that their vaccinations are up to date as clusters of mumps are investigated in Ontario and Alberta, and measles cases are probed in Nova Scotia.

OTTAWA — A surge in gasoline prices helped drive Canada's annual inflation rate well beyond expectations in January to 2.1 per cent — an increase that coincided with the implementation of new carbon-pricing policies in Ontario and Alberta.

NATIONAL HARBOR, United States — Donald Trump has just finished a speech at the country's biggest annual gathering of conservatives, and outside in the hallway a group of young men are debating where they agree and disagree with the president.

TORONTO — Garth Drabinsky has no desire to look backward. The theatre mogul makes his long-anticipated return with "Sousatzka.

Highlights from the news file for Friday, Feb. 24 ——— CONSERVATIVE CONFERENCE HEARS FROM POPULISTS: Conservatives gathered in Ottawa for the annual Manning conference heard from the man the event is named after.

SOUTH WEST OXFORD TOWNSHIP, Ont. — Police in southwestern Ontario are looking for thieves who made off with a lot of cheese. Ontario Provincial Police say the Village Cheese Mill in South West Oxford Township, east of London, Ont.

PETERBOROUGH, Ont. — Police in Peterborough, Ont., say three teenagers now are facing attempted murder charges following a stabbing incident.