Ontario News

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump's new ambassador to Canada says she intends to represent the president's agenda with a style that appears, at first glance, to be gentler than that of her unapologetically pugnacious boss.

EDMONTON — Conservationists are mourning the death of a female grizzly bear that had been moved from a popular area west of Calgary this summer to a remote park in northwest Alberta.

OTTAWA — Transport Canada says a ship has been fined for allegedly exceeding a speed limit set to protect endangered whales in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

OTTAWA — Oxfam Canada says hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims, who have been fleeing violence in Myanmar in recent weeks, are without shelter and clean water in flooded refugee camps.

TORONTO — Canada Post is honouring some of hockey's greatest players with its latest NHL collection of postage stamps.

WINNIPEG — Manitoba New Democrats are poking fun at Conservative Premier Brian Pallister's much-publicized vacation home in Costa Rica by raffling off a vacation to the country as part of a party fundraiser.

MONTREAL — The North American-wide debate over who should pay for professional sports stadiums entered Montreal's mayoral race on Wednesday.

TORONTO — Rapper Snoop Dogg is investing in another Canadian cannabis venture.

HALIFAX — Dozens of stray dogs facing uncertain futures in storm-damaged Texas are now settling into foster homes in Nova Scotia.

SUDBURY, Ont. — A strike by faculty members is under way at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ont. The union says on its Facebook page that it presented the administration with an offer on Wednesday evening aimed at averting a walkout.