Ontario News

OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada says an Alberta woman cannot sue the province's energy regulator as part of her claim that hydraulic fracturing so badly contaminated her well that the water can be set on fire.

WASAGA BEACH, Ont. — Provincial police say a 25-year-old woman is in hospital after running onto the road to get a dog. They say the woman was struck by a transit bus in Wasaga Beach, Ont., last Friday evening.

OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear the appeal of an Edmonton man who crashed his SUV onto a restaurant patio, killing a toddler.

TORONTO — McDonald's has begun serving its famed Egg McMuffins, hash browns and other breakfast menu items around the clock in some restaurants in Canada. The fast-food giant has launched all-day breakfast at 17 restaurants in B.C.

Marineland was charged Monday with six counts of animal cruelty, but the company dismissed the allegations, accusing Ontario's animal welfare agency of acting on behalf of "a band of discredited activists.

OTTAWA — Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the seasonally adjusted annual pace of housing starts in December came in at 207,041 units, up from 187,273 in November. The increase came as the rate of urban starts climbed 11.

OTTAWA — The federal budget watchdog says the Trudeau government may fall short of spending all the money it planned to devote to infrastructure in the first year of its mandate.

OTTAWA — A Liberal MP is speaking out about what she considers a frustratingly slow response by her own federal government to the crisis of fentanyl, a potent opioid linked to more than 500 overdose deaths last year in B.C. and Alberta alone.

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — A cousin of the Ontario woman killed in the New Year's Eve terrorist attack in Turkey says his family feels empty without her.

TORONTO — "Hockey Night in Canada" host Ron MacLean has apologized to postal workers after suggesting their jobs were "effectively obsolete.