Ontario News

WINNIPEG — Pride Winnipeg is inviting police officers to march in its annual parade, but not in uniform.

TORONTO — The last time Conservative party faithful gathered en masse in Toronto it was to hear from former leader and prime minister Stephen Harper. On Friday, they met in the same location, this time to hear from the 13 people vying to replace him.

VICTORIA — Green Leader Andrew Weaver says he's very close to making a deal with either the Liberals and the New Democrats on forming a new minority government in British Columbia.

VANCOUVER — Addiction experts from five European countries say their experience with prescription heroin programs have provided overwhelming evidence to suggest Canada should expand its one clinic in the midst of a deadly opioid crisis.

OTTAWA — Health Canada has approved plans to create four new supervised consumption sites in British Columbia and Quebec, but some health officials say the approvals fall short of meeting the needs in communities devastated by overdose deaths.

A Canadian Red Cross official says he sympathizes with a Manitoba postal worker who refused to perform CPR on a woman he feared might have overdosed on fentanyl.

MONTREAL — A Canadian mother of three who was injured when a speeding car plowed into pedestrians in New York City is still in critical condition, a family member said Friday.

TORONTO — The injury-plagued Toronto Blue Jays received some welcome relief Friday as two of the team's star players returned after extended absences.

OTTAWA — The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal says the federal government's failure to fully implement Jordan's Principle may have contributed to the suicides of two teenagers in Wapekeka First Nation earlier this year.

OTTAWA — Police in Ottawa say they've arrested a 16-year-old girl and are still looking for a boy and a man in a homicide investigation. They say the girl turned herself in on Friday morning.