Ontario News

OTTAWA — A Canadian woman was turned back at the U.S. border after information about her suicide attempt was inappropriately shared with American officials through an RCMP-administered database, the federal privacy watchdog says.

TORONTO — The Toronto Transit Commission is suing Manulife Financial for alleged negligence in connection with a benefits fraud scheme that first came to light three years ago.

TORONTO — An Ontario bill that would jail or slap large fines on people using pill presses illegally to make counterfeit opioids has passed a key hurdle.

OTTAWA — International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau says 6,000 Canadians who were in the path of hurricane Maria were evacuated before the storm hit.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's Liberal government delivered a throne speech Thursday that promised to address health care problems but saved the details for next week's budget.

WATERTON, Alta. — Parks Canada has reopened the townsite in Waterton Lakes National Park to the public, but advises that all other areas in the park remain closed.

TORONTO — A boy is in serious condition after being stabbed near a Toronto high school early Thursday afternoon.

LONDON, Ont. — The chief of the London, Ont., police force says a review of more than 1,000 sexual assault files found an average of six per cent between 2010 and 2016 were unfounded.

Highlights from the news file for Thursday, Sept.

EDMONTON — Alberta does not expect to make good on a promise to ban what it has called the archaic practice of spear-hunting until at least next fall as it considers rule changes that could include prohibiting other methods of taking big game.