Ontario News

VANCOUVER — Norsat International Inc. (TSX:NII), the Vancouver tech firm at the centre of duelling acquisition bids, says China-based Hytera Communications has matched a US$67.3 million rival takeover offer from an American fund manager.

OTTAWA — The Trudeau government is planning to spend billions more on the navy's four wayward submarines to keep them operating into the 2030s.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stopped the presses Thursday on the idea of imposing a five per cent tax on broadband Internet services as a way of "levelling the playing field" in Canada's rapidly evolving news industry.

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump has nominated a big-money political donor and philanthropist with personal ties to the coal industry as the next American ambassador to Canada.

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — A man charged with killing a two-year-old girl along with her father and a senior told police the little one was in heaven, but he didn't know where God had put her body.

VANCOUVER — A former RCMP employee who alleges she was sexually assaulted by a now-retired inspector in a locked washroom at their Vancouver workplace says she's been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.

MONCTON, N.B. — RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson testified Thursday that arming Mounties with high-powered carbine rifles raised concerns for him over the possible militarization of the force and needed to be done carefully.

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. — A man found not responsible for killing his three children is being properly managed, his psychosis is under control and he doesn't fit the definition of a high-risk accused, his lawyer said Thursday.

ANTIGONISH, N.S.

VANCOUVER — British Columbia Liberal House Leader Mike de Jong says it is not his party's responsibility to provide a Speaker in order to "prop up" an arrangement between the NDP and Greens.