Ontario News

TORONTO — Auteur-driven films starring Ben Stiller, Jeffrey Tambor, Steve Buscemi and Michael Sheen are among the features set for the Toronto International Film Festival's competitive Platform section.

TORONTO — The City of Toronto announced several measures Thursday in response to a spike in suspected opioid-related deaths in recent weeks.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Police are looking for victims of a 65-year-old Newfoundland man who posed as a teenage boy and exploited children online.

TORONTO — Women in Ontario will be able to get an abortion pill for free with a prescription as of Aug. 10. Mifegymiso, an alternative to surgical abortion, is a combination of the drugs mifepristone and misoprostol.

TORONTO — An Air Canada flight en route to Hungary was flown back to Toronto's Pearson International Airport early Thursday after an unruly passenger was allegedly involved in an altercation that left a flight attendant injured.

VANCOUVER — Air quality across southern British Columbia remains poor as smoke from wildfires and a heat wave affect the region.

OTTAWA — Index-tracking exchange-traded funds have become one of the fastest growing ways for Canadian investors to gain diverse exposure to the stock market at a low price.

HALIFAX — Police say a pilot was briefly dazed after a laser was pointed at his small plane as he flew over a Halifax suburb.

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick is bone dry, and the government is restricting forestry operations because of the fire risk. Energy and Resource Development Minister Rick Doucet says the forest fire hazard in the province is the highest in 20 years.

OTTAWA — The Liberal government's plan to allow judges to excuse impoverished offenders from paying a federal victim surcharge could end up shrinking provincial budgets, so Ottawa is prepared to shell out some extra cash — for a time.