Ontario News

TORONTO — Sarah Polley's adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel "Alias Grace" will debut on CBC-TV on Sept. 25.

RIMOUSKI, Que. — Quebec provincial police say a missing woman who was found safe in Saskatchewan has been arrested for suspected mischief.

OTTAWA — At 66, Wayne Hystad is signing on for a new mortgage in a move to consolidate his debt and allow him to keep his Edmonton condominium. "It means I keep my place and I'll just have a higher mortgage, which I can handle," he says.

OTTAWA — The foremost constitutional authority in Canada once argued that random breath testing — similar to what the Liberals proposed to crack down on impaired driving — would infringe Charter rights, but the benefit to public safety would be so st

BRAMPTON, Ont. — Ontario's police watchdog is investigating a crash that left a Peel regional police officer in hospital with serious injuries. The Special Investigations Unit says the crash took place on Wednesday night in Brampton, Ont.

OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said the government has agreed to create a so-called Magnitsky Act that would expand Canada's international sanctions law to target gross human rights violators.

OTTAWA — Opposition parties are trying to block the nomination of Madeleine Meilleur as the country's new official languages commissioner.

REDMOND, Wash. — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Washington state Wednesday to promote Canada's growing technology industry to major multinational companies, joining top business leaders inside the closed-door Microsoft CEO Summit.

OTTAWA — Jennifer McCreath has a fear of flying of a different sort: a fear she won't be allowed on board. McCreath, a 43-year-old transgender woman in St. John's, N.L.

OTTAWA — The Trudeau government has hired a former top public servant to study options for more robust oversight of Canada's border agency — the latest sign the agency could soon have new people looking over its shoulder.