Ontario News

SHELBURNE, N.S.

TORONTO — Via Rail is trying to limit the scope of a policy to make its trains more accessible to travellers using wheelchairs and mobility aids.

TORONTO — Canada heads to the Women's Rugby World Cup ranked third in the world and believing it can take down the top two if it plays to its potential. "I think we feel very prepared," said veteran winger Elissa Alarie.

EDMONTON — Police have recovered most of the historical memorial plaques stolen from an Edmonton neighbourhood but say they are too badly damaged to be used again.

OTTAWA — National Defence has been struggling to make good on one of the Trudeau government's recent promises: giving tax breaks to military personnel and police officers deployed on certain overseas operations.

VANCOUVER — British Columbia's information and privacy commissioner has ordered a Surrey-based vigilante group to stop posting personal information about two men the group alleges are linked to child luring.

TORONTO — Calgary running back Jerome Messam and defensive lineman Charleston Hughes and Edmonton quarterback Mike Reilly are the CFL's top performers for Week 5.

ST. GEORGE, N.B. — Fire investigators say a mess of extension cords and power bars, as well as the failure of an electrical component, were likely to blame for a fire that killed a New Brunswick woman and her three adult sons in April.

TORONTO — Canada's largest grocery and drug store operator warned Wednesday that minimum wage increases in Ontario and Alberta threaten to harm its bottom line and it will have to find ways to cut costs. Loblaw Companies Ltd.

WINNIPEG — A Manitoba woman who admitted her repeated abuse and neglect killed her 21-month-old daughter is facing a possible sentence of life in prison without parole for at least 14 years.