Ontario News

OTTAWA — Canadian soldiers have been quietly helping Jordan and Lebanon secure their borders amid fears of Islamic State fighters slipping from Iraq and Syria to launch attacks in Europe and North America.

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick RCMP say a 40-year-old woman has been charged in the ongoing investigation of outlaw motorcycle gangs in the province.

TORONTO — As Kevin Loring becomes the first-ever director of Indigenous theatre at the National Arts Centre, he'll be looking to help blaze a trail in a creative realm where he's faced his share of roadblocks.

OTTAWA — Canada's national housing agency says new regulations introduced last fall decreased the size of the country's insured mortgage market by about 33 per cent year-over-year in the second quarter. The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp.

Two Ontario men are on their way to Houston to help a family member who has been forced from her home by flooding in the hurricane-battered city. Bill Hamilton and Pat Quirk left Guelph, Ont.

GRANBY, Que. — Quebec public health officials are trying to determine the source of contamination that is causing an abnormally high number of cases of legionnaires' disease in a town east of Montreal.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Organizers say as many as 100,000 people are expected as the much-watched Chase the Ace draw ends Wednesday night in a church hall outside St. John's.

OTTAWA — Temporary shelters set up in Cornwall, Ont., to house asylum seekers will remain on standby until Oct. 1, but the province's immigration minister said Tuesday that, for now, it doesn't look like they'll be needed.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's Liberal government is expected to announce Wednesday a promised independent review of forestry practices in a province where clear cutting remains highly controversial.

OTTAWA — The federal NDP announced Tuesday it has tripled membership numbers during its leadership race.