Ontario News

OTTAWA — The Ottawa Senators carried a little extra baggage onto their plane for Boston Saturday afternoon.

TORONTO — Canadian Olympic Committee president Tricia Smith helped calm the waters after the tumultuous departure of Marcel Aubut in late 2015.

TORONTO — Ontario's NDP is pledging to create a provincial pharmacare plan, appealing to the grassroots about a year out from the start of next year's election campaign.

QUESNEL, B.C. — One person is dead and "numerous" others injured following a crash involving Greyhound bus and three other vehicles in B.C.'s Cariboo region, police said. The crash happened late Friday afternoon on Highway 97 south of Kersley, B.C.

Toronto police say a Hamilton man was fatally shot while sitting in his car, waiting for his friend in a plaza parking lot. Investigators were called to the scene at about 9:30 p.m. Friday, after someone reported the sound of gunshots.

MONTREAL — French citizens are lining up in Montreal to cast their votes in what is expected to be a very tight presidential election.

OTTAWA — The federal Liberals are aiming to halve the number of the hardest-to-help homeless and experts say it's a move that may be key to ending homelessness in the country.

OTTAWA — Save for the several thousand pot-smoking protesters who lit up outside the Peace Tower on Thursday, Parliament Hill was an island of quiet this week — even as global forces battered the country's sense of security.

MONTREAL — A dozen Canadians have been selected as astronauts since 1983 in three separate selection processes. The fourth is currently underway and will double the current roster of two active professional space explorers.

MONTREAL — Retired Canadian spaceman Bob Thirsk asks himself a couple of simple questions when sizing up people who tell him they want to become an astronaut.