Ontario News

HALIFAX — Perry Doolittle had a vision of connecting Canadians from coast to coast when he backed the tires of his Ford Model T into the Atlantic Ocean at the outset of a cross-country excursion almost a century ago.

HAGERSVILLE, Ont. — It was like any other game at Iroquois Lacrosse Arena. Family and friends dotted the orange and purple stands. Fans pounded drums and whooped with every crosscheck or goal.

WASHINGTON — Federal investigators confirmed Monday that an Air Canada jet was descending toward a taxiway holding four other planes rather than the assigned runway and narrowly avoided disaster at San Francisco International Airport.

TORONTO — Stock indexes in Toronto and New York finished the session flat Monday while the Canadian dollar squeezed out a tiny gain. The Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX composite index pulled back 9.45 points to 15,165.36.

Highlights from the news file for Monday, July 17 ——— B.C.

HALIFAX — A group of elite Nova Scotia firefighters will join the front lines battling wildfires burning across British Columbia.

HALIBURTON, Ont. — Toronto paramedics are mourning the loss of a colleague who was killed in a motorcycle crash over the weekend.

The Toronto-based parent company of the infidelity dating site Ashley Madison says it has reached a US$11.2-million settlement in American class-action lawsuits stemming from a massive security breach two years ago. Ruby Corp.

GRIQUET, N.L. — Jamie Ellison's botanical tour of northern Newfoundland provided a whole different kind of nature lesson when he looked out to a local bay and saw an iceberg with a distinctly masculine flourish.

MONTREAL — The last 11 people accused in a massive Quebec Mob bust dubbed Project Clemenza saw the charges against them stayed Monday at the request of the prosecution.