Ontario News

WINNIPEG — Smoke from a northern Manitoba wildfire has prompted officials with the Garden Hill First Nation to move another 1,500 people to Winnipeg.

MONTREAL — Former Quebec justice minister Jerome Choquette, who helped navigate the province through the October Crisis, has died at the age of 89.

HAMILTON — Defensive back Craig Butler retired as a player from the Canadian Football League on Saturday and joined the Hamilton Tiger-Cats staff as an assistant coach. The six-foot-one, 201-pound native of London, Ont.

BECANCOUR, Que. — Quebec provincial police say they aren't ruling out a family tragedy as a factor in the death of a two-year-old child in central Quebec. The child was found without a pulse at about 9 p.m.

WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government has been eyeing the possibility of charging a carbon tax of $25 per tonne — half of what the federal government has insisted must be in place by 2022 — according to a document obtained by The Canadian Press.

TORONTO — Piers Handling will be stepping down as director and CEO of the Toronto International Film Festival at the end of next year.

OTTAWA — When Ann Speers retired from her federal government job more than a year ago, she noticed something wrong with her bank account; she had been overpaid on her final paycheque.

VANCOUVER — A library in British Columbia is colouring outside the lines with its writer-in-residence program and showing people that literature can be more than words on a page.

TORONTO — No winning ticket was sold for the $32 million jackpot in Friday night's Lotto Max draw. That means the jackpot for the next draw on Sept.

EDMONTON — Two teenagers charged in an arson that left a five-month-old baby dead have had their cases set over until later this month.