Ontario News

WINNIPEG — A woman convicted of concealing the bodies of six infants in a Winnipeg storage locker is to be in court July 7 for a sentencing hearing.

TORONTO — Federal Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains is calling on the private sector to spend more on research and development to prepare for the rise of the digital economy.

TORONTO — The Ontario government has announced what it calls a comprehensive housing package aimed at cooling a red-hot real estate market.

CALGARY — Shirley Jager has a wicked right hook and iridescent lime-green boxing gloves and shoes. She's 79 and has taken up boxing as part of her own personal title bout against the ravages of Parkinson's disease.

TORONTO — Monica Finlay's childhood yellow Labrador, Amy, had a few surprise accidents that cost her parents a lot of money. "She blew out her ACL and that was really expensive," Finlay says.

TORONTO — More than two people each day are dying of opioid overdoses in Ontario, a grim tally that underscores the soaring use and abuse of the potent narcotics, researchers say.

OTTAWA — The $631 fee to apply for a criminal pardon poses a substantial hurdle for people trying to turn their lives around, said a large majority of those who responded to a federal consultation.

VANCOUVER — New reports released by Elections BC show the Liberal party returned almost $175,000 in political contributions it received in the last six years.

VANCOUVER — A union representing staff at two B.C. newspapers says the employees have voted 82 per cent in favour of an agreement to save some jobs after dozens were served with layoff notices.

OTTAWA — The federal government's plans for legalizing recreational marijuana has many would-be players looking to carve out a role for themselves in the emerging market, including pharmaceutical distributors who already ship drugs across the country