Ontario News

Highlights from the news file for Friday, Sept.

OTTAWA — The Conservatives and NDP are coming out against the Trudeau government's new access to information bill, saying it falls short of Liberal promises to increase transparency.

TORONTO — North American stock indexes capped of the week on a flat note amid heightened North Korea-U.S. tensions, as the loonie strengthened against a weakening greenback.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — From early childhood, Gemma Hickey rebelled against wearing dresses and never felt female. It was a misfit sensation of not belonging that Hickey wants to spare other kids — starting with their birth certificates.

CALGARY — Mayors from both ends of the proposed Energy East pipeline are calling for the National Energy Board to reverse its requirement that upstream and downstream emissions be included in its review of the $15.7-billion conduit.

TORONTO — The deletion of thousands of documents related to the politically explosive decision to cancel two gas plants near Toronto was a deliberate act that breached the public trust, the trial of two former top aides in the Ontario premier's offic

TORONTO — Bears Woods hates the Toronto Argonauts' record but loves the position they're in.

OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says Canada has imposed sanctions against key figures in the regime of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

HALIFAX — Finance Minister Bill Morneau took his "listening tour" over Ottawa's controversial tax proposals to Halifax on Friday, drawing criticism from some small business owners and concerns from Nova Scotia's Liberal premier.

GODERICH, Ont. — Provincial police say they have recovered the body of the second person killed in a small plane crash in Lake Huron near Goderich, Ont.