Ontario News

BELLEVILLE, Ont. — A Belleville, Ont., man convicted of sexually assaulting two young girls and producing child pornography has been handed a four-year prison sentence. Forty-four-year-old Michael Tregunna pleaded guilty on Feb.

EDMONTON — Alberta's highest court has struck down a section of the province's Traffic Safety Act that allows authorities to suspend the licences of suspected drunk drivers until their cases are resolved in court.

OTTAWA — An Ottawa doctor is facing charges after allegedly sexually assaulting three female patients. Ottawa police say they started investigating last year and some of the alleged incidents date back to 2012.

TORONTO — Ontario's anti-sprawl policies, which some critics have blamed for the current housing supply shortage in Toronto and the surrounding areas, are going to get tougher, with the government demanding that most future development in the provinc

TORONTO — Ontario families of children with autism will be able to choose between using government-funded services or receiving funding to pay for private therapy, as part of an overhauled program.

SAINT-APOLLINAIRE, Que. — The fate of a contentious proposal to establish a Muslim cemetery in a town southwest of Quebec City will be decided by referendum on July 16.

OTTAWA — Canadian weightlifter Connor Visagie was handed a four-year ban by the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport on Thursday for an anti-doping rule violation. Visagie, a powerlifter from Chilliwack, B.C.

Highlights from the news file for Thursday, May 18 ——— U.S. LAUNCHES NAFTA TALKS: The U.S. has given official indication that it wants to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement. U.S.

GORES LANDING, Ont. — The case of a muskrat found badly injured in a diaper box has triggered an investigation by Ontario's provincial police.

OTTAWA — Sen. Andre Pratte apologized Thursday for using a notorious racial slur during a Senate committee hearing, where he uttered the so-called "N-word" as an example of an epithet that should never be used.