Ontario News

NORRISTOWN, Pa. — Bill Cosby's chief accuser took the stand at his sexual assault trial Tuesday to tell her story publicly for the first time, saying the comedian violated her after giving her three blue pills that left her paralyzed and helpless.

OTTAWA — The federal Liberal government has thrown its weight behind an Opposition motion backing Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, even as political turmoil in British Columbia threatens the project's future.

OTTAWA — The federal government says new pilot-project results suggest roadside testing devices can be successfully used to help detect drug-influenced driving — another milestone on the road to legalizing recreational marijuana use.

OTTAWA — Canada has eight months to put forward a detailed plan to improve the health of its largest national park or risk having the United Nations add it to a list of world heritage sites considered to be in danger.

SURREY, B.C. — Drug users will start injecting their own heroin or other illicit substances at a new supervised injection site opening this week in Surrey, B.C., in efforts to curb a crisis in overdose deaths.

OTTAWA — Some quotes from Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland's foreign policy speech Tuesday and reaction to it: "To put it plainly: Canadian diplomacy and development sometimes require the backing of hard power.

EDMONTON — The family of an indigenous sex assault victim who was jailed and shackled while testifying against her attacker is angry about how she was treated by Alberta's justice system and wants the man to spend the rest of his life in jail.

OTTAWA — New data suggests almost 2,500 Canadians died from opioid-related overdoses in 2016 — deaths that federal Health Minister Jane Philpott says were preventable.

OTTAWA — Remember Responsible Conviction? That was so 2016.

Highlights from the news file for Tuesday, June 6 ——— FREELAND SAYS CANADA NEEDS TO SPEND MORE ON MILITARY: Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says Canadians need to spend billions on "hard power" military capability because they can't rely o