Ontario News

WINNIPEG — Family, friends, and bus drivers gathered to say goodbye to a Winnipeg Transit driver brutally killed on the job. The service for 58-year-old Irvine Jubal Fraser was held Tuesday at Calvary Temple.

OTTAWA — The head of Canada's financial intelligence unit warns that regulators must grapple with the challenges of emerging financial technologies, some of which he says have been exploited by terrorism and organized crime.

WASHINGTON — Angry crowds vow to block the president at every turn. Partisans threaten the elected politicians of their own party: fight always, or face a primary. Tension over impending health reform sloshes extra fuel onto this partisan brushfire.

BRAMPTON, Ont. — Ontario's Office of the Fire Marshal says there were no working smoke alarms in a Brampton, Ont., home where a fire killed three members of the same family last week.

OSHAWA, Ont. — Sherry Bassin vividly remembers first time he saw Alex DeBrincat play. The former Erie Otters owner was attending a game to scout prospects when the pint-sized forward caught his eye. "He was just dominant.

LAWRENCETOWN, N.S. — A Nova Scotia man is praising the efforts of the family dog for helping save him and two young boys who were buried under a heavy mountain of snow after their fort collapsed on top of them.

TORONTO — Canadian animator Alan Barillaro has had a hand in some of Pixar's biggest hits including "A Bug's Life," "Monsters, Inc.

Five stories in the news for Wednesday, Feb.

TORONTO — The storybook ending was there again for Patrik Laine. Auston Matthews was in the penalty box for hooking with the Winnipeg Jets and Toronto Maple Leafs deadlocked in overtime.

TORONTO — A wind power company is going to court to try to get $28 million it is owed by the federal government over an Ontario offshore wind moratorium.