Ontario News

TORONTO — Ontario is putting $15 million toward hiring more addiction and mental health workers and distributing more kits with the overdose-reversing drug naloxone as it tries to combat an opioid crisis.

RED DEER, Alta. — A former Alberta politician has become one of the oldest Canadians to summit Mount Everest.

An Arctic climate change study has been cancelled because warming temperatures have filled the sea off northern Newfoundland with hazardous ice up to eight metres thick.

VANCOUVER — Federal Health Minister Jane Philpott says more people are expected to die of illicit opioid overdoses in Canada this year compared with nearly 2,500 fatalities recorded in 2016.

MONTREAL — Canada and the United States remain "quite far apart" on negotiating a softwood lumber settlement, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said Monday, suggesting that any hopes for a swift resolution may be dashed.

HALIBURTON COUNTY, Ont. — More than 20 students from a Toronto middle school were sent to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries on Monday after two school buses collided on their way to a camp in central Ontario.

OTTAWA — The Bank of Canada is encouraged by a broadening of economic strength, which includes gains across 70 per cent of industries, a top official said Monday, in what was widely seen as a "hawkish" speech from the country's central bank.

MONTREAL — Hydro-Quebec's Montreal headquarters has been named after former Liberal premier Jean Lesage, even though Rene Levesque is widely credited with completing the nationalization of Quebec's electricity industry.

TORONTO — The Toronto Zoo will reopen Thursday after being closed by a month-long strike. Unionized workers at Canada's largest zoo ratified a new four-year collective agreement on Sunday.

CALGARY — The U.S. Energy Information Administration has highlighted how last year's oil price drop brought on a massive writedown of high-cost Canadian oilsands reserves. The EIA said in a brief Monday that data from 68 U.S.