Ontario News

VANCOUVER — There will be no new whales, dolphins or porpoises kept at the Vancouver Aquarium in the future if the city's park board approves changes to its cetaceans bylaw on Monday.

TORONTO — From bumps and bruises to amputations and even death, data suggests elevators in Canada are proving increasingly dangerous.

Toronto police say a man is facing 51 charges in an arson investigation after allegedly lighting multiple items on fire in the stairwell of a building. Police say the fires had been increasing in frequency over the course of the last six months.

TORONTO — A deadline is looming for Via Rail to change its policies and allow more than one person travelling in a wheelchair at a time on its trains, or prove that doing so would be far too difficult.

MONTREAL — Hundreds of Quebec forestry workers are experiencing the first sour tastes from the softwood lumber battle with the United States as they prepare for the start of layoffs.

TORONTO — Lobbying on lumber: Brace for another round of arm-twisting on softwood lumber. The Union of Quebec Municipalities will be in Washington, D.C., throughout the week to convince U.S. politicians about the importance of softwood lumber trade.

EDMONTON — A wildfire expert says a blizzard of blazing embers that were blown by the wind over fireguards and a river sparked the flames that destroyed homes in Fort McMurray last spring and then spread the destruction deeper into neighbourhoods.

REGINA — The last time Charlene Klyne was in the same room as the teenager convicted in a deadly school shooting in Saskatchewan, he opened fire and shot her in the face.

URANIUM CITY, Sask. — The total price tag was estimated at under $25 million when the federal government agreed to pay for half the cleanup of a radioactive Cold-War-era uranium mine in northern Saskatchewan.

HALIFAX — For Janet Glazebrook, having to beg a doctor to test her sister for hip fractures after waiting hours in a crowded emergency room helped determine her vote in Nova Scotia's May 30 election. "It (health care) is completely compromised.