Ontario News

TORONTO — The Ontario Energy Board says that one month after a ban on winter electricity disconnections took effect, about half of the affected customers remain disconnected.

HALIFAX — A New Brunswick man has been charged with second-degree murder almost 12 years after the body of a 26-year-old woman was found in a Halifax apartment.

OTTAWA — The federal government can keep a lid of secrecy on information a Chinese refugee claimant says could be vital to his case.

TORONTO — The Speaker of Ontario's legislature says government ads about planned hydro bill reductions are not in contempt of parliament.

QUEBEC — The Quebec national assembly adopted a motion Thursday expressing the province's "great disappointment" with the federal budget. It passed by a 95-0 margin, with two abstentions.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — A sex doll at the centre of a trial in Newfoundland had some "breast budding" but is still "child-like," a forensic psychiatrist testified Thursday. Dr. Peter Collins said under cross-examination at provincial court in St.

TORONTO — Students in more than two dozen Ontario high schools are taking part in a pilot project aimed at teaching them financial skills necessary to succeed in the new global economy.

TORONTO — Uber is crying foul over new tax measures announced in the federal government budget that would see the company subject to the same sales tax rules applied to taxi drivers.

Toronto's wandering capybaras are now parents. The High Park Zoo said Thursday in a birth announcement that the rodent couple — who escaped last year and were on the lam for several weeks — have had three "energetic capybabies.

OTTAWA — Canada has been approved to join a controversial new international infrastructure bank led by China. The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank says Canada is among 13 applicants approved for membership in the bank by its board of governors.