Ontario News

OTTAWA — First Nations leaders met for a second day Thursday to discuss serious concerns about safety of young people in Thunder Bay — a northwestern Ontario city that leads the country in hate crimes reported to police.

Highlights from the news file for Thursday, July 6 ——— TRUDEAU TO APPEAL TO PROTESTERS ON EVE OF G20: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's sunny ways will be tested over the next few days amid tensions both inside and outside the gates of the G20 summit i

Toronto will receive nearly $5 billion from Ottawa for transit projects, but it's contingent on the province forking over cash too, at a time when such funding has been a source of tension between the two lower levels of government.

TORONTO — The CONCACAF joint bid for the 2026 World Cup now has a board of directors and an executive team. What lies ahead is a lot of work in a short time frame. Canada, Mexico and the U.S. will learn Aug.

PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. — The mother of a girl allegedly abducted from a Saskatchewan playground says what happened to her daughter shows it can happen to anyone.

TORONTO — Home sales in the Greater Toronto Area plunged 37.

TORONTO — More than 500 Ontarians aged 27 to 101 have chosen medically assisted death since it became legal in Canada a little over one year ago, according to new statistics from Ontario's chief coroner.

OTTAWA — Provinces and territories that want a slice of new federal infrastructure money will have to prove it will accelerate economic growth, under the terms laid out by the Liberals for the government's long-term funding program.

TORONTO — Canadian snowboarder Mark McMorris has always had an amazing ability to quickly recover from significant injuries. His comeback from a near-fatal crash in the B.C. backcountry earlier this year is just the latest example.

OTTAWA — The federal government is hiring the former chief financial officer at one of Canada's largest banks to help oversee its new infrastructure-financing agency.