Ontario News

MONTREAL — Quebec is cancelling its plan to distribute welfare cheques to asylum seekers at Montreal's downtown convention centre.

TORONTO — North American stock market indices finished Tuesday on a positive note after falling in morning trading amid heightened tensions between North Korea and the United States.

Highlights from the news file for Tuesday, Aug. 29 ——— FREELAND CALLS NORTH KOREAN MISSILE TEST RECKLESS: Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says North Korea's latest provocative missile test is a reckless violation of Japan's sovereignty.

OTTAWA — Canada is conducting daily threat assessments of North Korea's provocative missile tests, including its most recent blast over Japan, Justin Trudeau said Tuesday.

MONTREAL — Canada's two largest airlines have cancelled scores of flights, affecting thousands of passengers, due to the massive hurricane that has flooded parts of Texas.

OTTAWA — Tearing down tributes to historical figures would be "counterproductive" to reconciliation efforts between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people, says the former chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Sen.

CALGARY — Researchers say a warning line intended to get hockey players to keep their heads up around the boards has the opposite effect.

HALIFAX — More than two years after a mentally ill Nova Scotia man killed his mother and two grandparents, a team of mental-health professionals argued Tuesday he should be granted unescorted day passes.

TORONTO — Two of Canada's major banks are mighty optimistic about the prospects for North America's economic climate after talking to the companies they lend money to.

MONTREAL — A well-known left-wing activist who was arrested at a Quebec City demonstration and then released has been rearrested.