Ontario News

TORONTO — Netflix is making Toronto's all-night contemporary arts festival a little stranger on Saturday.

TORONTO — The Ontario Human Rights Commission is calling on the provincial government to ban the use of segregation in its jails for people with mental illness, except in exceptional circumstances.

VICTORIA — Mounting protests against a filmmaker who planned to charge higher admission to white men attending the screening of his movie have led a Victoria theatre society to cancel its contract to show the film.

CALGARY — The National Energy Board is issuing a stern warning to the company building the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion for installing mats in streams to discourage fish from spawning where the pipeline is to be built.

OTTAWA — World champion backstroker Kylie Masse and Olympic champion Penny Oleksiak will lead Canada's swim team into the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Australia. Masse, of LaSalle, Ont.

Unionized elementary school teachers in Ontario say this week's heat wave has made conditions in many classrooms "unbearable" and it's taking a toll on students who are stuck in schools without air conditioning.

ROSEAU, Dominica — A storm-ravaged Caribbean island caught in the eye of hurricane Maria's ferocious winds and torrential rains has suffered "near total devastation," the captain of a Canadian warship anchored off Dominica says. Cmdr.

TORONTO — Freshii Inc. shares have plunged following the restaurant chain's revelation that its growth has been slower than expected, resulting in the closure of some stores and a reduced target for net openings this year.

Toronto running back James Wilder Jr., Winnipeg receiver Darvin Adams and Calgary defensive lineman Ja'Gared Davis are the CFL top performers for Week 14.

OTTAWA — Randy Mearns will return as head coach when Canada defends its men's lacrosse world title next year in Israel.