Ontario News

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil covered hundreds of kilometres Monday in his final push to win back-to-back majorities, as the other major party leaders again fixated on health care in a bid to oust him Tuesday.

MONTREAL — The Quebec government tabled a bill Monday forcing the province's striking construction workers back on the job by Wednesday.

HALIFAX — (NSElxn) Nova Scotia's party leaders fanned out across the province Monday trying to sway undecided voters in the final hours before the provincial election.

THUNDER BAY, Ont. — Provincial police say they've laid charges following an investigation into a collision last year that left one person dead and two others injured. They say the driver of an SUV — a 46-year-old Thunder Bay, Ont.

CARLING TOWNSHIP, Ont. — Police say a man is facing a murder charge after the body of a 39-year-old woman was found northwest of Parry Sound, Ont.

OTTAWA — Women accessing services at abortion clinics in Ontario will be protected by safe zones around the facilities under new legislation planned by the provincial government in response to several incidents of harassment.

CALGARY — The Conference Board of Canada says a slow recovery in the oil and gas sector will allow Alberta and Saskatchewan to emerge from recession and lead the provinces in economic growth this year.

MONTREAL — Boeing says its trade complaint against Bombardier is designed to prevent the Montreal-based rival from using subsidies to build a larger version of the CSeries plane that would directly compete with its own flagship narrowbody 737 aircraf

TORONTO — Public consultations on Canada's first national law for disabled people have identified high unemployment rates, inaccessible buildings and barriers in transportation as some of the key issues that need to be addressed.

BATHURST, N.B. — As provinces across Canada move to establish protest-free "buffer zones" around abortion providers, a judge has banned anti-abortion activists from demonstrating outside a hospital in northern New Brunswick.