Ontario News

TORONTO — The OMERS pension fund for nearly half a million public sector workers in Ontario says it achieved a 10.3 per cent net investment return in 2016 — the highest in six years. The Toronto-based fund manager says its net assets rose by $8.

TORONTO — Royal Bank of Canada, the country's largest lender, reported stronger-than-expected first-quarter results Friday on the back of solid earnings from its Canadian banking, wealth management and capital markets businesses.

TORONTO — Despite a marketing push promising a new dawn for the Reds, Toronto FC is looking back as well as forward this season.

PRESCOTT, Ont. — Provincial police say a tractor-trailer driver is facing charges after wheels flew off the transport damaging five other vehicles. They say the wheels came off the tractor on Highway 401 near Prescott, Ont., around 7 a.m. Friday.

AURORA, Ont. — Canadian auto parts giant Magna International Inc. cited the rise of protectionist trade measures in the Trump era as a key risk to the auto industry as it reported its latest quarterly results.

FREDERICTON — A man who was shunned by his community and reviled by family when he was wrongly branded a sex offender has been acquitted of sexually assaulting his step-granddaughter after the girl admitted she was forced to make up the story by her

NEWMARKET, Ont. — York regional police say a 27-year-old Toronto man has been sentenced after being found guilty of second-degree murder and aggravated assault in connection with a double shooting in Vaughan, Ont.

WINNIPEG — Police in Winnipeg are looking for a man who sprayed or deposited what they say may have been a bodily fluid on a teenage girl's clothing. The girl and some friends were shopping at the St.

A brand new elementary school shuttered by flooding in a troubled indigenous community in Ontario will be reopening for business next week.

WHISTLER, B.C. — The Colorado-based company that owns the Whistler Blackcomb ski resort in British Columbia has announced a 60-year renewal of the resort's master development agreements with the B.C. government. Vail Resorts, Inc.