Ontario News

TORONTO — Terrence Ross's first night back in Toronto was mundane.

TORONTO — Canadian international Kyle Bekker has been named player of the week in the North American Soccer League after scoring the first goal in the San Francisco Deltas' history. The 26-year-old midfielder from Oakville, Ont.

CALGARY — Alberta Premier Rachel Notley and Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall continue to take jabs at one another over their provincial budgets.

HALIFAX — Staff at Atlantic Canada's largest hospital has had to perform CPR in elevators and hastily erect brown paper room dividers due to spillover from a crowded emergency department, says a union study.

VANCOUVER — A legal battle between the City of Burnaby and the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion has ended with the British Columbia Court of Appeal ruling the National Energy Board can override municipal bylaws.

TORONTO — Ontario's government learned from its own polling that the rising cost of hydro was people's top concern 10 months before the Liberals publicly acknowledged it and announced an eight-per-cent reduction on electricity bills.

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BERLIN — A massive gold coin issued by the Royal Canadian Mint has been stolen from a museum in Germany.

LYNDHURST, Ont. — Provincial police say they are investigating following a traffic stop in eastern Ontario in which three people were arrested. They say officers stopped a vehicle hauling a snowmobile trailer near Lyndhurst, Ont.

TORONTO — Giving families of children with autism the option of either using government-funded services or receiving direct funding to pay for therapy may be part of Ontario's new autism program, the minister in charge said Monday.