Ontario News

TORONTO — No one who has bought a ticket for a domestic or international flight in Canada will be allowed to be removed because of overbooking under a new passenger bill of rights, the transportation minister announced Tuesday.

OTTAWA — Marc Antoine Ducharme has been named the new head coach of the Canadian women's wheelchair basketball team. The Chambly, Que.

BISMARCK, N.D. — Tribes representing tens of thousands of indigenous people in the U.S. and Canada will be signing a declaration against the planned Keystone XL oil pipeline.

TORONTO — A Toronto hospital says the city's first "barrier-free" addiction clinic will reduce the wait times to days from up to months for patients seeking treatment.

OTTAWA — Canada's temporary foreign workers program is rife with oversight problems that appear to have allowed lower-paid international workers to take jobs that out-of-work Canadians could fill, the federal auditor general says.

OTTAWA — Former foreign affairs minister Lloyd Axworthy has been tapped to lead a new international group in search of practical solutions to the world's massive refugee crisis.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — North America's longest subsea electricity cable has been connected between the island of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, Halifax-based Emera Inc. confirmed Tuesday. The 170-kilometre cable is a key part of the $1.

MONTREAL — Universite de Montreal is monitoring its IT network after about 120 of the school's computers were infected with the same cyberattack that hit computers around the world.

WINNIPEG — Age-related arthritis has led to a long-standing resident of Winnipeg's Assiniboine Park Zoo being euthanized. Zoo officials confirmed Monday in a Facebook posting that Kendra, a matriarch Siberian tiger, has been put down.

OTTAWA — Canada’s top accountant is calling on the federal government to kick start much-needed improvements to airports in Canada’s remote north.