Ontario News

TORONTO — Police have charged an 18-year-old man with second-degree murder in the death of a man in Toronto's east end. Officers responded to a trouble call early Sunday morning.

WINNIPEG — Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer pledged Thursday that when Parliament resumes later this month he'll hammer the Liberals on three of the hot button issues of the summer: taxes, asylum seekers at the border and a payout to Omar Khadr.

VICTORIA — British Columbia's minority NDP government is set to table a throne speech outlining its political blueprint after months of tension, upheaval and backroom machinations following a spring election that failed to produce a clear winner.

VANCOUVER — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has closed the door on decriminalizing illicit drugs to combat a national overdose crisis but British Columbia's addictions minister says unprecedented deaths are a "wake-up call" to reconsider that stance.

CALGARY — An Alberta man is appealing his conviction and sentence for the murders of a father, the man's two-year-old daughter and a woman.

WINNIPEG — Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister is suggesting the federal government could take over the Port of Churchill as one way to help revive the subarctic town's broken rail line and economy.

TORONTO — Search crews say they have found a test model of the Avro Arrow, an advanced Canadian fighter jet that was controversially scrapped in 1959, on the floor of Lake Ontario.

MONTREAL — The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is recommending all Beaver-type planes be equipped with a stall-warning system.

WINNIPEG — A Winnipeg high school hopes that teaching its students about the Holocaust will help put a stop to a recent spate of anti-Semitic bullying.

MONTREAL — Quebec's largest labour federation and a major business group say the provincial government needs to pay particular attention to the workplace consequences of cannabis use.