Ontario News

Highlights from the news file for Friday, May 19 ——— SASK TEEN GUNMAN WANTED TO MARK ANNIVERSARY OF LA LOCHE SHOOTING: The teen who has admitted to killing four people in La Loche, Sask.

TORONTO — Police say a potentially dangerous nuclear gauge has gone missing in the Toronto area. They say the guage, which contains sealed radioactive material and is used to measure soil thickness and moisture content, was lost between 6 a.m.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to ask Pope Francis for a formal apology for the role of the Catholic Church in the residential school system when the two meet during a private audience later this month.

MONTREAL — Politicians and police in Quebec are promising to do better after an investigator blamed the government's response system for the debacle on a city highway last March that left 300 motorists stranded after a major snowstorm.

OSHAWA, Ont. — Police are investigating after a man who shared explicit images of himself with a woman reported the she threatened to circulate his images if he didn't pay her. The 32-year-old Oshawa, Ont.

SIMCOE, Ont. — Ontario Provincial Police say they're trying to identify a man seen walking on a trail with no pants. Investigators say they got a call Friday morning from a concerned citizen reporting an indecent act.

OTTAWA — The Trudeau government is delaying implementation of firearm-marking regulations intended to help police trace guns used in crimes — despite a 2015 campaign pledge to immediately enact them.

OTTAWA — The man who played a lead role in drawing up the blueprint for Canada's proposed infrastructure bank says the agency should not be completely independent of political oversight.

NEWMARKET, Ont. — The owner of an illegal daycare north of Toronto has been sentenced to 22 months in jail for allowing a two-year-old to die in a broiling SUV near four years ago. Olena Panfilova, who ran the daycare in Vaughan, Ont.

BELLEVILLE, Ont. — An Ontario middle-school teacher who had sexual encounters with several students and traded nude photos with them has been sentenced to two years in prison.