Ontario News

SIMCOE, Ont. — Six people are facing charges following a drug investigation in Simcoe, Ont.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia is overhauling its abortion policies, making the abortion pill available at no cost and removing the requirement for a physician's referral to obtain a surgical abortion.

WASAGA BEACH, Ont. — A Collingwood, Ont., man is dead following a collision between a motorcycle and a pickup truck. Provincial police say the collision occurred on Thursday afternoon in Wasaga Beach, Ont.

CALGARY — No longer talking to each other behind closed doors about a new NHL arena, the Calgary Flames and their city continue to talk loudly to the public about it.

TORONTO — A 50-year-old Toronto woman was charged Friday with causing the death of a child in her care after allegedly leaving him alone in a car for several hours on a sweltering day.

CALGARY — The Canadian company whose proposal to build an LNG export terminal in Oregon was derailed by U.S. regulators last year has resubmitted its application for a bigger, more expensive project. Calgary-based Veresen Inc.

Ontario formally signed an agreement Friday to link its cap-and-trade system with Quebec and California's joint market on Jan. 1, 2018.

OSHAWA, Ont. — Durham regional police say a contractor is facing numerous charges after allegedly taking deposits for work that was either only partially completed or never started.

OTTAWA — The Liberals speak constantly of strengthening the Canadian middle class, but any precise definition of that amorphous category of people getting all the attention has always been ambiguous at best.

WALTON, Ont. — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tried to show off his farming skills Friday at the International Plowing Match in southwestern Ontario. The prime minister drove a tractor a short distance at the event's 100th edition in Walton, Ont.