Ontario News

TORONTO — With two major milestones looming on the calendar, Toronto-based Soulpepper Theatre Company isn't confining its celebrations to Canada: it's taking the party south of the border.

TORONTO — A report by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute says Canadians' willingness to take on debt is leaving the country's economy vulnerable to downswings.

MONTREAL — Organizers of the Fete nationale parade are apologizing to people who were upset by the sight of black teenagers pushing a float carrying a white singer.

TORONTO — An avid soccer fan, Toronto-based neurosurgeon Dr. Michael Cusimano gets concerned every time he sees a player stay on the pitch after showing symptoms of a head injury.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — A massive, fast-moving fire at a public housing complex has forced about 35 people out of their homes in a blaze that sent large plumes of smoke billowing above St. John's, N.L.

SYDNEY, N.S. — A young aboriginal man who sexually assaulted a 16-year-old friend "exhibits great potential" despite a difficult upbringing and should not face a lengthy jail term, a Nova Scotia judge says.

MONTREAL — Canada's softwood lumber industry faces average duties of about 27 per cent after the U.S. Department of Commerce slapped it with an additional 6.87 per cent in preliminary average anti-dumping tariffs.

OTTAWA — The Trudeau government is waiting for more details after the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday partially reinstated President Donald Trump's ban on travellers from six mainly Muslim countries.

WOODSTOCK, Ont. — One after another, family and friends of a serial killer's victims described overwhelming guilt, anger and profound sadness when they learned their loved ones had been murdered by an Ontario nurse who was supposed to care for them.

TORONTO — The case of a nurse who murdered eight seniors in long-term care homes in Ontario will be examined in a public inquiry.