Ontario News

MEADOW LAKE, Sask. — An assistant principal shot at a school in northern Saskatchewan says the teenage gunman must be sentenced as an adult because he alone chose to pull the trigger.

REGINA — The Saskatchewan government says it will appeal a Court of Queen's Bench ruling that says the province can't provide Catholic schools funding for students who aren't Catholic.

WASHINGTON — The I-word has entered the Washington vocabulary. That forbidden word — the 11-letter pathway to political damnation, is suddenly, timidly, tiptoeing onto the tongues of capital-dwellers.

HURON TOWNSHIP, Ont. — A man who was the subject of a week-long provincial police search is to appear in court Thursday facing a number weapons charges.

CALGARY — A coalition of aboriginal groups from Canada and the U.S. has signed a declaration against the Keystone XL pipeline, vowing to use the courts and whatever other means necessary to block the controversial project.

TORONTO — An Ontario man is in federal custody in the United States after allegedly assaulting members of an Air Canada flight crew and trying to open the door of a plane while it was in flight.

OTTAWA — Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan is expected to face pointed questions when he travels to the United Nations next week to help commemorate those peacekeepers who have been killed in the line of duty.

TORONTO — A centre where people can learn about electric vehicles and take them for a test drive has opened in Toronto with the help of $1 million from the Ontario government.

TORONTO — The death of a 16-year-old South Carolina boy from a probable caffeine-induced heart arrhythmia has renewed concerns about the risks of young people consuming energy drinks and other beverages containing high levels of the stimulant.

WINNIPEG — A Manitoba aboriginal leader says culls of stray dogs in remote communities are a necessary measure when people's safety is at risk.