Ontario News

TORONTO — Darren Fortune, a longtime rider at Toronto's Woodbine Racetrack, was remembered Friday as a thoughtful, hard-working individual who had a passion for working with horses.

TORONTO — Armie Hammer says he originally wanted to pass on the coming-of-age drama "Call Me By Your Name" because he was uncomfortable with appearing nude on screen.

TOFIELD, Alta. — RCMP have charged an Alberta woman and two of her sons in the death of her husband who had been missing since 2011. Police say six years ago 49-year-old Miles Naslund was reported missing from his farm southeast of Edmonton.

CFB GAGETOWN, N.B. — Some of the world's best snipers are gathered at Canadian Forces Base Gagetown, to compete against their peers in an elite profession that is the stuff of movies and myths.

WATERTON, Alta. — A popular national park in the southwestern corner of Alberta was under a mandatory evacuation order Friday because a forecasted shift in wind was expected to heighten the wildfire danger.

TORONTO — Blue Jays third baseman Josh Donaldson will sit out Toronto's game against the Detroit Tigers on Friday with an undisclosed illness. Donaldson is hitting .254 this season with 25 home runs and 64 runs batted in.

QUEBEC — The man charged with six counts of first-degree murder related to slayings at a Quebec City mosque last January returned to court Friday as his defence team received additional evidence against him.

TORONTO — A proposed plan on the sale of marijuana unveiled Friday by the Ontario government stirred a lot of reaction.

Toronto's main stock index capped off a negative week with more losses as resource stocks weighed heavily, while the loonie continued to take flight. The S&P/TSX composite index declined 39.21 points to 14,985.

The house belonging to Audrey Foy, a young woman living in Florida who is originally from Quebec, looked like a bunker Friday.