Ontario News

VICTORIA — A man behind a "justice-pricing" policy based on charging higher admission to white males attending the screening of his movie says he used a false name to promote it because he was concerned about a backlash that could risk his safety.

TORONTO — RBC says "a small number" of its credit-card clients' personal information may have been affected in the massive Equifax security breach. Bank spokesperson A.J.

TORONTO — A woman who was crossing a street while using a walker is dead after being struck by a pickup truck in east-end Toronto. The 86-year-old woman was attempting to cross Broadview Avenue, north of Mortimer Avenue at about 8 p.m.

OTTAWA — Canadian companies have much greater access to one of the world's largest markets starting Thursday, as a major trade deal between Canada and the European Union enters into force.

HALIFAX — A judge has acquitted a former Halifax cab driver accused of sexually assaulting a female passenger, saying he believed the woman but the Crown failed to prove the identity of her assailant.

OTTAWA — Opposition parties are asking why the Liberal government did not consider sooner how to deal with three United Nations drug treaties after they learned Thursday the issue is only expected to go before the cabinet this fall.

TORONTO — Natural gas rates are going down for customers in Ontario on Oct. 1. The Ontario Energy Board approved new rates for Enbridge, Natural Resource Gas Ltd. and Union Gas.

VANCOUVER — A parole board member has removed a ban on drinking alcohol for a young man who will spend the rest of his life under supervision for second-degree murder near 100 Mile House, B.C.

Layoff notices have been handed out to hundreds of workers at the General Motors transmission-making factory in St. Catharines, Ont., as effects spread from a strike that started Sunday at GM's CAMI plant in Ingersoll, Ont.

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer has personally apologized to Environment Minister Catherine McKenna for a Tory MP's remark referring to her as "climate Barbie.