Ontario News

TORONTO — Rafael Hernandez and Channel Maker spoiled Luis Contreras's second run at Canadian horse-racing history Sunday. Hernandez rode 8/5 favourite Channel Maker to a photo-finish victory in the $400,000 Breeders' Stakes at Woodbine Racetrack.

MONTREAL — Justin Trudeau marched with his Irish counterpart in Montreal's Pride parade on Sunday, marking the first time a foreign head of government has joined a prime minister in a Canadian Pride celebration.

OTTAWA — The Liberal government is thinking about using its massive purchasing power to support women in business.

BOSTON — Researchers at the New England Aquarium in Boston say another North Atlantic right whale has died. The aquarium's right whale research team tweeted that the dead whale was a female named "Couplet.

Clayton Uyeda and his wife Jo will be on a ferry — en route from Swartz Bay on Vancouver Island to Tsawwassen on the mainland — when the partial solar eclipse in Canada begins in Victoria at 9:08 a.m. Monday.

MONTREAL — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canadians should maintain confidence in the immigration system even as thousands of asylum seekers continue to pour into the country.

OTTAWA — A board member with the Canadian Race Relations Foundation, an arms-length federal government agency with a mandate to combat racial discrimination, is in jeopardy of losing her post over her writings on the controversial website Jihad Watch

HALIFAX — Close to a quarter of solitary confinements in Nova Scotia's jails are due to medical issues or protection from other inmates, according to recent figures offering a glimpse of why offenders in the province spend weeks buried in virtual iso

A handful of Ontario university students are touring parts of Japan to better understand the devastating effects of the country's 2011 nuclear disaster and the problems that persist.

Celebrity magician Penn Jillette has apologized after Newfoundlanders took him to task for insulting their intelligence on a talk show.