Ontario News

SPANISH, Ont. — Provincial police say the death of a man in Spanish, Ont., this week has been ruled a homicide.

EDSON, Alta. — RCMP say a cyclist who was killed in a collision in western Alberta was an off-duty officer with the Edson detachment. Mounties say they responded to a call Wednesday night near Edson where a cyclist had been struck by a vehicle.

VICTORIA — The steep political mountain facing John Horgan's minority government in British Columbia was apparent in the key appointments he made to his inner circle of close advisers, say political observers.

VANCOUVER — The head of the national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women denies the process is drifting, saying she believes it's moving at "lightning speed.

OTTAWA — Canada's national unemployment rate was 6.5 per cent in June. Here are the jobless rates last month by province (previous month in brackets): — Newfoundland and Labrador 14.9 per cent (14.8) — Prince Edward Island 10.2 (10.

HALIFAX — Until this week, few Canadians had heard of the Proud Boys. That changed on Canada Day, when five young men in matching black polo shirts disrupted an Indigenous ceremony in Halifax.

YELLOWKNIFE — Mounties are searching for a missing mushroom picker visiting the Northwest Territories from the Czech Republic.

REGINA — Catherine McKay's blood alcohol level was three times the legal limit when she drove into a car carrying the Van de Vorst family in January 2016, killing a couple and their two young children.

CALGARY — A man high on fentanyl or some similar powerful opioid caused a series of hit-and-runs on a Calgary expressway and almost overdosed before being revived, city police said Thursday.

OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada is upholding procedures that permit shortcuts for allowing a motorist's breathalyzer test results into evidence — even in cases where demanding the breath sample may have been unlawful.