Ontario News

TORONTO — Lawyers acting for the widow of an American special forces soldier have filed an application in Canada seeking to enforce a massive U.S. damages award against former Guantanamo Bay prisoner, Omar Khadr.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Newfoundland and Labrador's highest court is divided over how to address the aboriginal status of a man who only briefly mentioned he was Mi'kmaq at his sentencing on drug charges.

WINGHAM , Ont. — Police say a driver is charged in a crash involving truckload of turkeys east of Wingham, Ont. Provincial police say a transport truck carrying about 1,700 turkeys went off the road just before midnight on June 29th.

CALGARY — Canada's veterans affairs minister is urging patience from injured ex-soldiers growing frustrated waiting for a government plan that would give them pensions for life.

OSHAWA, Ont. — Police have arrested a man, and continue to search for three others, after they allegedly robbed an apartment and held its occupants at knifepoint on Tuesday evening. The four men allegedly broke into the Oshawa, Ont.

OTTAWA — Opposition parties and legal experts are urging the Liberal government to be clear on how it plans to handle the legalization of cannabis while Canada remains party to three UN treaties that control and criminalize drug access, noting failur

KINGSTON, Ont. — Police are calling it a case of road rage. A 58-year-old Kingston, Ont., motorist is accused of biting a pedestrian who yelled at him.

MONTREAL — The Montreal bar is calling on tradition to be respected and for the next chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada to be a Quebecer.

PETERBOROUGH, Ont. — The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry is asking for the public's help to find the person responsible for destroying a bald eagle's nest north of Peterborough, Ont.

HAMILTON — Police say a man is facing charges after allegedly trying to steal an ambulance and then carjacking a taxi. It's alleged a man in his 30s attempted to enter an ambulance that was stopped at a Hamilton intersection just after 7 a.m.