Ontario News

TORONTO — Bell Media has unveiled a glimpse of a new documentary on the Tragically Hip's smash cross-country tour.

Unusually heavy Arctic pack ice has trapped multiple vessels, stymied the fishing season and triggered a high-stakes rescue operation from a sinking ship off Newfoundland.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump repeatedly pressured the head of the FBI over its investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, according to the advance copy of testimony set to be delivered Thursday.

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — A macabre picture began to emerge Wednesday at a triple-murder trial with the Crown telling a jury the suspect confessed to police that he killed all three victims: a father and daughter and a senior.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to make global action on climate change and sustainable economic development a main thrust of Canada's upcoming year as president of the G7.

OTTAWA — Canada will add hundreds of new elite special forces commandos, wage offensive cyberwarfare attacks and deploy armed drones to international battlefields as part of its military response to new global security threats.

RED DEER, Alta. — Kurt Stenberg was unbuckling his daughter from her car seat outside their house earlier this week when he heard a crash.

VICTORIA — A one-year delay in the construction of the Site C hydroelectric dam would cost $630 million, the president of BC Hydro said Wednesday as uncertainty surrounds the project with the New Democrats poised to form a minority government in Brit

Highlights from the news file for Wednesday, June 7 ——— ANNUAL DEFENCE SPENDING TO GROW BY $13.9B: Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan said Wednesday that annual defence spending in Canada in 10 years will be $14 billion higher than it is now.

OTTAWA — The government's plan to create a new $35-billion infrastructure bank is facing a rocky road as senators stand poised to rewrite the Liberals' budget bill and delay creation of the financing agency.