Ontario News

OTTAWA — Canada can do more with less foreign aid spending, says Finance Minister Bill Morneau, and that includes relying on a new profit-driven financial lending institution to help fight poverty in poor countries.

Highlights from the news file for Monday, March 27 ——— LIBERALS SAY NO DECISIONS YET ON POT TAX: Finance Minister Bill Morneau says the Liberal government has not decided how to tax marijuana, but is instead focused on making sure it stays out of the

TORONTO — Climbing gold and resource stocks helped push Canada's largest stock index higher Monday as it finished ahead of its U.S. counterparts. The Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX composite index climbed 63.55 points to 15,506.22.

DORCHESTER, N.B. — A retired Ontario garbage worker has decided to spend his retirement in jail. Bill Steele of Oshawa, Ont., recently bought a defunct New Brunswick jail with a history of hangings.

OTTAWA — Provincial governments have been warned that they have until this time next year to start assigning billions in infrastructure cash to eligible projects, or else they could lose control over how it can be spent.

HALIFAX — More than a decade after racial profiling was identified as a festering problem among some police forces, it is now being addressed in another sector: retailing.

VANCOUVER — An accident on a jump "well within his skill level" in British Columbia's backcountry has left Canadian snowboarding star Mark McMorris with serious injuries.

MOOSE JAW, Sask. — An initial report into the crash of a training plane says the instructor and student pilot had to eject after getting into trouble practising basic aerobatics. Both Royal Canadian Air Force officers survived the Jan.

The Canadian Federation of Humane Societies says a new code of practice for egg farmers will help reduce the extreme stress suffered by egg-laying hens and give consumers some assurance about the term "cage-free.

TORONTO — Curtis McElhinney has been around the NHL for almost a decade, but he couldn't recall a single start that carried the implications of the one which lays ahead of him and the Toronto Maple Leafs.