Ontario News

TORONTO — Contract extensions agreed to by Ontario's teachers and education workers come with more than $275 million in additional funding as well as four-per-cent raises.

A jump of more than 30 per cent in house prices in Toronto suggests that demand is being driven more by real estate speculators and investors than homebuyers, Canada's top banker said Wednesday.

OTTAWA — A member of the Canadian Forces is facing four counts of sexual assault. The charges against Pte.

TORONTO — The Canadian dollar got a boost Wednesday following the Bank of Canada's decision to raise growth expectations for the year while holding its key interest rate. The loonie climbed 0.33 of a cent to 75.34 cents US.

TORONTO — Josh Donaldson returned to the Blue Jays lineup Wednesday as designated hitter. The star third baseman was restricted to pinch-hitting duty Tuesday in a 4-3 loss to Milwaukee due to calf tightness.

Highlights from the news file for Wednesday, April 12 ——— YOUSAFZAI CHARMS, CHALLENGES PARLIAMENT: The teenage Nobel Peace Prize winner who famously survived a Taliban bullet in 2012 is now an honorary Canadian citizen.

Halifax will again discuss what it might do about sites named for Edward Cornwallis, the city's controversial founder who issued a bounty on the scalps of Mi'kmaq men, women and children.

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OTTAWA — Growers on the cusp of Canada's nascent marijuana industry are bracing for Thursday's long-awaited Liberal legislation on legal pot, which sources say is expected to require the newly unshackled drug to be sold only in plain, brand-free pack

OTTAWA — Police investigators watched and tearfully celebrated Wednesday as a former RCMP counter-terrorism officer who tortured and starved his son in the basement of his family's suburban Ottawa home was sentenced to 15 years in prison.