Ontario News

TORONTO — Ontario's Progressive Conservative leader says passing ethics and accountability legislation will be one of the first things his government will do if his party wins the 2018 election.

DUNROBIN, Ont. — The results have not been coming quite as quickly for Brooke Henderson in her second year on the LPGA Tour.

PETERBOROUGH, Ont. — Police say two people have been charged after a girl from Durham Region was allegedly taken to motels and hotels in Peterborough, Ont., and various Greater Toronto Area communities to perform sexual acts for money.

Toronto-based film and accessibility critic Michael McNeely, who is deafblind, has faced many frustrating customer-service challenges over the years.

TORONTO — "Live with Kelly and Ryan" will broadcast from Niagara Falls, Ont., next month. The daytime talk show, hosted by Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest, will stage two episodes at the Oakes Garden Theatre.

NEW GLASGOW, N.S. — Twenty-five years after she lost her husband to one of Nova Scotia's worst coal mining disasters, Darlene Dollimont-Svenson still finds it difficult talking about the life they once shared.

CALGARY — Witnesses say frightened children aboard a school bus in Calgary were screaming as rescuers pulled them to safety just before the front of the vehicle burst into flames.

TORONTO — Shares of Home Capital Group (TSX:HCG) shot up Tuesday after it announced that an independent third party expressed interest in buying up to $1.

TORONTO — A biography on Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot is due this fall. Penguin Canada says "Lightfoot," by music journalist Nicholas Jennings, will be published under the Viking Canada imprint on Sept. 26.

BARRIE, Ont. — Police say officers had to remove an angry beaver that stopped traffic north of Toronto. Barrie, Ont., police say they were called to a roadway around 9:30 p.m.