Ontario News

MONTREAL — Ex-Montreal mayor Gerald Tremblay took the stand on Monday as a Crown witness at the fraud trial of Frank Zampino, his former No. 2 at city hall.

MAPLE RIDGE, B.C. — The mayor of Maple Ridge, B.C., has cut her public appearances following online harassment, says the city's chief administrative officer.

OTTAWA — Canada has just 13 years to cut almost 200 million tonnes of yearly carbon emissions if it hopes to meet its 2015 international climate treaty obligations.

WINNIPEG — A man was sentenced to 23 years in prison Monday for randomly attacking two women in separate sexual assaults that left both victims with severe physical and emotional trauma.

OTTAWA — The Quebec shipbuilding company at the centre of the RCMP's case against Vice-Admiral Mark Norman is shrugging off the controversy and says it is on track to deliver an interim supply ship for the navy this fall.

KITCHENER, Ont. — A funeral service was held in southwestern Ontario for a soldier who died in a training exercise accident in Alberta.

CRANBROOK, B.C. — A lawyer whose client is on trial for polygamy in British Columbia is arguing that evidence in the case was collected amid confusion over the legality of Canada's laws on plural marriage.

OTTAWA — Senior clerics from three of the country's largest religious denominations are asking Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for more help for South Sudan.

WHITEHORSE — Dozens of aftershocks rattled parts of southern Yukon and northern British Columbia after a strong earthquake shook the area Monday. The tremors cut power and closed schools in Whitehorse, but officials said there was no major damage.

OTTAWA — The National Arts Centre says Michael Buble and his family will attend a Governor General's Performing Arts Awards ceremony in Ottawa in June.