Ontario News

HALIFAX — Liberal Premier Stephen McNeil fended off multiple attacks on his record Thursday as Nova Scotia's major-party leaders clashed over health care, education and the economy during the first televised leaders debate of the campaign.

Victoria's suspended police chief quit Thursday amid an investigation into his sexually charged Twitter messages to the wife of a subordinate officer.

The federal government hinted Thursday that Boeing should not take future military contracts with Canada for granted, a veiled threat that coincided with a spat between the aerospace giant and rival Bombardier.

TORONTO — Training on sexual assault issues will now be required for new provincial judges in Ontario, following outcry over judges' comments about complainants in other parts of the country.

VANCOUVER — Neither of British Columbia's two main political parties are ruling out changing the province's electoral system without holding a referendum.

MEADOW LAKE, Sask. — A teen gunman who killed four people at a home and in a school in northern Saskatchewan told police he had regrets about the shooting.

CHILLIWACK, B.C. — British Columbia's provincial court says three dairy farm workers from the Fraser Valley have been sentenced to jail for causing distress to an animal after an undercover video showed several employees abusing milk cows.

WASHINGTON — The United States has officially served notice of its intention to renegotiate the 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement, triggering a 90-day consultation window before talks begin later this summer with Canada and Mexico.

EDMONTON — Transport Minister Marc Garneau rolled into Alberta on Thursday to promote his bill that aims to help modernize Canada's freight rail industry.

SURREY, B.C. — RCMP say two men associated with a vigilante group in Surrey, B.C., have been charged with assault.