Ontario News

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne has announced a host of changes to labour laws in the province, as the changing nature of work leaves people with less secure jobs, fewer benefits and fewer protections.

ROME — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is standing by the Kinder Morgan pipeline project, even as the New Democrats and Greens in B.C. are teaming up to fight it.

The Ontario government has announced plans to raise its minimum wage to $14 an hour on Jan. 1, 2018 and to $15 an hour the following year. Here's a look at what minimum-wage workers are paid across the country: Alberta - $12.

BARRIE, Ont. — Closing arguments are expected to begin Wednesday in the manslaughter trial of an Ontario nurse who took a woman off life support without a doctor's order, with jurors set to begin their deliberations next week.

MONTREAL — A 15-year-old girl is recovering in hospital after being shot in the stomach shortly after midnight Tuesday morning. Police say the girl was with friends outside a metro station in Laval, north of Montreal, when she was hit. Const.

TORONTO — It started as a routine rugby league tackle. But bad things can happen when some 900 pounds of beef collides at speed with no padding.

VICTORIA — British Columbia's New Democrat and Green party leaders shook hands Monday in the legislature on a deal to pave the way for the formation of a new minority government, but Premier Christy Clark signalled she wasn't ready to immediately rel

VANCOUVER — All eyes are on Premier Christy Clark after Monday's announcement that British Columbia's New Democrats have reached an agreement with the Green party to form a minority government, experts say.

CALGARY — Kinder Morgan says it expects to proceed Tuesday with its initial public offering for the Trans Mountain expansion, just as the anti-pipeline Greens and NDP in B.C.

MONTREAL — Canadian National Railway (TSX:CNR) and the union representing about 3,000 employees have reached a tentative agreement to avert a Tuesday morning labour strike.