Ontario News

OTTAWA — Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says the United States has provided no new information about what it would take to entice it back into the Paris climate change accord.

TORONTO — Mining companies led a largely broad-based gain on Canada's main stock index Monday as the loonie lost ground to the U.S. dollar. The Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX composite index was up 63.64 points to 15,236.

NEW YORK — This week the United Nations is hearing for the first time from a U.S. president who called the organization weak, incompetent, antithetical to freedom, anti-American and hostile to democracy.

TORONTO — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday his government could stop doing business with Boeing if the U.S. company doesn't drop a trade complaint against Canadian plane maker Bombardier.

Highlights from the news file for Monday, Sept.

TORONTO — Prime Ministers Theresa May of Britain and Justin Trudeau of Canada said Monday their countries are working toward a new bilateral trade deal for after the United Kingdom's departure from the European Union.

OTTAWA — NDP leadership candidate Charlie Angus marked Monday's return of Parliament by stressing the importance of his party's next leader having immediate access to the House of Commons — a pointed jab at fellow hopeful Jagmeet Singh.

CALGARY — A judge who on Monday spared a woman jail time for pretending to have cancer and claiming to be a wildfire evacuee was highly critical of the general public's "mob mentality" toward her.

MONTREAL — A 41-year-old man who was the subject of an Amber Alert involving his six-year-old boy was charged on Monday in the slaying of the child's mother. The single charge of second-degree murder was filed at the courthouse in Saint-Jerome, Que.

TORONTO — The nomadic life of a world class athlete can be lonely, and Canadian sprint star Andre De Grasse admits to missing home sometimes. "There are times when I'm travelling alone when I'm kind of miserable.