Ontario News

WINNIPEG — Manitoba became the second province Thursday to raise the spectre of a court challenge against the federal government's carbon-pricing plan.

TORONTO — Amazon says sign-ups for its Amazon Prime membership program grew 80 per cent in Canada in 2016.

TORONTO — InnVest Hotels LP is acquiring the luxury hotel formerly known as Toronto's Trump International Hotel and Tower from JCF Capital for an undisclosed amount.

TORONTO — The Toronto Maple Leafs have signed forward Adam Brooks to a three-year entry level contract. The 21-year-old had 43 goals and 87 assists in 66 regular-season games with the Western Hockey League's Regina Pats last season.

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — R.J. Barrett would love to get his driver's license. But finding the time for that particular rite of passage has proven impossible for the talented 17-year-old.

OTTAWA — The federal government has ordered the military to stay in Iraq for at least two more years as the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant prepares to enter a new phase.

TORONTO — Police in Toronto say a 24-year-old man who was gunned down outside his east-end home two months ago was killed simply because of the neighbourhood he lived in. Det.

TORONTO — A constitutional challenge to Canada's segregation laws scheduled to be heard in September should be put on ice in light of proposed legislation and policy changes that will address the issues raised, the federal government argued on Thursd

KINGSTON, Ont. — Police say a 64-year-old Nova Scotia man has been arrested and returned to Kingston, Ont., to face multiple charges for historical sexual offences.

VANCOUVER — Researchers with the BC Centre for Disease Control may have pinpointed how a mysterious norovirus outbreak spread, forcing the closure of 13 West Coast oyster farms and curtailing operations at others as hundreds of Canadians fell ill.