Ontario News

OTTAWA — A big Canadian player has quietly picked up his chips and is heading for the exit amid the tumult over the Trudeau government's controversial tax proposals.

CALGARY — A woman who treated her seven-year-old boy with holistic remedies before he died of a strep infection says every day is a painful reminder that an error in judgment led to her son's death.

VANCOUVER — A preliminary report raises more questions than answers about the future of the controversial $8.8-billion Site C dam, with the British Columbia Utilities Commission saying it needs more information before it can make a recommendation.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Newfoundland and Labrador has announced it will allow gender-neutral birth certificates, short-circuiting a court battle with a prominent St. John's activist.

BOWDEN, Alta. — A former prison worker has been charged with helping an inmate escape. Innisfail RCMP say Sylvain Martin escaped from the minimum security annex of Bowden Institution on April 16, 2015.

SIMCOE, Ont. — Provincial police say a southwestern Ontario man is charged after allegedly assaulting an infant. Investigators say the alleged incident occurred Wednesday at a Simcoe, Ont., home. They allege a two-month-old child was assaulted.

QUEBEC — The man who swallowed liquid in front of a judge who had just sentenced him to jail on child porn charges died in hospital, police confirmed Thursday.

OTTAWA — The federal government is appealing a court decision that handed Canadian citizenship back to the Toronto-born son of Russian spies after it was revoked by Ottawa.

Krista DuChene was only 12 kilometres into the 2013 world championship marathon in Moscow, when her legs gave way. One of the country's most finely tuned runners was succumbing to heat exhaustion.

MONTREAL — A man on trial for first-degree murder in the slaying of a young female supermarket clerk told jurors Thursday he killed her because he was convinced she was waiting to shoot him and other clients in the store.