Ontario News

Six stories in the news for Tuesday, June 20 ——— SENATE BALKS AT SPLITTING BUDGET BILL The Senate won't be splitting the Trudeau government's budget bill to hive off the portion dealing with creation of a new infrastructure bank.

TORONTO — Two girls aged two and four were rushed to hospital on Monday evening after falling from a second-storey window of a home onto concrete. It happened in the city's east end shortly after 8:30 p.m. (near Sheppard Ave. East and Neilson Road).

TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays have signed 24 of their 41 selections from this year's MLB draft, including the son of seven-time Cy Young winner Roger Clemens.

OTTAWA — The federal government needs to make research into the effects of pot a priority as Ottawa works to legalize and regulate marijuana by next July, a coalition of academics said Monday.

OTTAWA — The Trudeau government appears to have given aerospace giant Boeing the cold shoulder in Paris — the latest sign that the Liberal government's plan to buy Super Hornet fighter jets could be on the rocks.

MONTREAL — The first of three safe injection sites for Montreal drug users opened its doors Monday, with one official estimating it will handle between 120 and 240 injections a day.

VANCOUVER — A Canadian man accused of harassing his ex-wife in the United States was told by police she feared he would secretly cross the border and attack her, a British Columbia Supreme Court jury heard Monday. RCMP Const.

EDMONTON — A man convicted of sexually assaulting an indigenous woman whom the Crown had jailed and shackled to ensure her testimony has applied for legal records to try to discredit her as he seeks a mistrial.

MONTREAL — A Quebec man was found guilty Monday of attempting to leave the country to participate in activities of a terrorist group — becoming just one of a few Canadians convicted of a charge that carries a maximum 10-year sentence.

COME BY CHANCE, N.L. — Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro confirmed Monday the deaths of two workers during construction of a transmission line just west of Come by Chance.