Ontario News

Highlights from the news file for Thursday, Aug.

HALIFAX — Hundreds of Nova Scotia families have registered for the promised expansion of pre-primary classes for four-year-olds, but there are still no firm numbers of trained staff available just weeks before its scheduled end-of-September startup.

OTTAWA — The Canadian subsidiary of French defence industry giant Thales has been awarded a multibillion-dollar contract to service Canada's new fleet of Arctic offshore patrol ships and joint support vessels.

CHARLOTTETOWN — Nine men affiliated with a Toronto-area Hells Angels chapter have been arrested by a new police task force targeting P.E.I.'s growing outlaw motorcycle gang presence.

OTTAWA — Despite their agonizing first third of the 2017 season, the Ottawa Redblacks can put themselves in playoff contention in the CFL East with a win at winless Hamilton on Friday.

WINNIPEG — A woman in Winnipeg tightly embraced her 12-year-old son for the first time in three years early Thursday morning when the child was reunited with his family after his liberation from Iraqi militants.

TORONTO — An Ontario court has thrown out a lawsuit against the provincial government over the controversial partial sale of Hydro One.

RICHMOND, B.C. — The Transportation Safety Board says a six-to-eight-second absence from the controls of a tug boat caused the sinking of another tug off the east coast of Vancouver Island. A safety board report says the captain of the C.T.

A Canadian man has been sentenced to 20 years in a U.S. federal prison for his role in a smuggling operation that sent more than $130 million worth of drugs between the United States and Canada.

HANNA, Alta. — RCMP say three children who died when a semi-trailer truck collided with an SUV northeast of Calgary Wednesday were all from the United States. "The family is from Washington State," said RCMP Cpl. Laurel Scott.