Ontario News

Toronto FC has joined the Toronto Raptors and Maple Leafs in selling out its allotment of season tickets. The Major League Soccer club said this week that its season tickets for the 2017 season were capped and sold out at 21,000.

WINNIPEG — Former federal cabinet minister Steven Fletcher, now a Progressive Conservative backbencher in Manitoba, may be in hot water after criticizing his own government's bill.

The latest Quebec-California cap-and-trade auction sold out of its current allowances, a stark improvement from the previous one in which only 18 per cent of its offerings sold.

MONCTON, N.B. — TD has announced plans for a new call centre in Moncton, N.B., that the provincial government says will create up to 575 full-time jobs.

VERNON, B.C. — Cool and wet weather is helping crews fighting two wildfires in British Columbia.

Old World coffee giant Lavazza is buying control of Kicking Horse Coffee, the company known for its cheekily named blends that can trace its roots to a garage in the Rocky Mountains. The deal announced Wednesday values the Invermere, B.C.

MONTREAL — The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals says an injured dog found buried alive on Montreal's South Shore has died.

OTTAWA — The federal government is pouring more money into the bug-addled Phoenix payroll system in hopes of getting closer to solving the ongoing boondoggle — and it's blaming the previous Conservative government for the extra cost.

TORONTO — A new website that makes opioid data in Ontario available to the public shows a steady increase in related overdose deaths in the province over the past 14 years, with an 11-per-cent jump in the first half of 2016.

A group of Ontario residents trying to ward off the development of a new quarry in their community say they have found two endangered salamanders that they hope will convince authorities to put an end to the project. The Burlington, Ont.