Ontario News

MONTREAL — Former Montreal mayor Michael Applebaum was sentenced to one year in jail on corruption-related charges Thursday, eliciting a promise from the disgraced ex-politician he will emerge a better man.

OTTAWA — The country's top soldier has pushed back on suggestions the armed forces is struggling from a lack of cash, saying he's not convinced it is making the most of the money it already gets. Yet chief of defence staff Gen.

RED DEER, Alta. — Cross-boundary political sniping between Alberta Premier Rachel Notley and Saskatchewan's Brad Wall has escalated over Wall's attempt to poach oil and gas firms.

VICTORIA — A special prosecutor has been appointed to provide legal advice to the RCMP over possible violations of British Columbia's Elections Act, less than two weeks before the official start of a provincial election.

VANCOUVER — Charges have been laid against the owners of the MV Marathassa nearly two years after a leak of bunker fuel fouled the beaches of English Bay in Vancouver, but the company is trying to scuttle the case.

VANCOUVER — British Columbia's indigenous kids are being removed from their homes and placed in care because of underfunding from both provincial and federal governments, says the province's representative for children and youth.

OTTAWA — Kevin O'Leary jumped into the Conservative leadership race late last year as the outsider candidate, brandishing a spatula to scrape "all that crap" out of Ottawa in a page that seemed torn from the playbook of U.S. President Donald Trump.

SOREL-TRACEY, Que. — Five people that were taken to hospital Thursday morning after an explosion at the Rio Tinto iron and titanium plant in Sorel-Tracy, Que., have been released.

WINNIPEG — Bright lights, airplane near-misses and light-fingered aliens with a penchant for cool shades are all part of the annual report on UFO sightings in Canada.

TORONTO — A new institute for artificial intelligence research opened Thursday in Toronto with funding from the federal and Ontario governments and the private sector.