Ontario News

OTTAWA — Give Aladdin's lamp to any modern-day golfer and expect some fantastic demands: balls that never get lost, a driver that hits it 350 yards, a can't-miss putter.

PORT COLBORNE, Ont. — A 50-year-old Pickering, Ont., man has drowned in Lake Erie while vacationing at a resort near Port Colborne, Ont. Niagara Region police say they received a call for help at about 5 p.m.

TORONTO — Canada will miss the podium at the men's under-23 world wheelchair basketball championship after a 58-45 loss to Japan in the quarter-finals on Wednesday.

EDMONTON — Bet they didn't see that coming — Edmonton police are warning the public about fraudsters posing as psychics and astrologers.

TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays didn't wait long to respond after Joe Smith blew his first save of the season Wednesday night. Tampa Bay scored three runs off the Toronto reliever to tie the game in the eighth inning.

WASHINGTON — A Republican-hating gunman who had spewed rage upon Donald Trump and his party opened fire on a group of U.S. lawmakers Wednesday, causing a range of injuries in what appeared to be a politically motivated shooting.

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — The RCMP's team commander at two southern Alberta murder scenes says the father of a man accused in the deaths admitted his son had "done something bad," saying "the devil is talking to him." Sgt.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has extended the term of Saskatchewan Lt.-Gov. Vaughn Schofield until the end of December. Schofield was sworn in to what is usually a five-year term in March 2012.

MEADOW LAKE, Sask. — A teenager who killed four people and injured seven in the northern Saskatchewan community of La Loche told a case worker that he wished he had killed himself.

OTTAWA — Eight provinces and all three territories will share $2 billion in federal funds to help them cut their greenhouse gas emissions over the next five years.