Ontario News

TORONTO — Things to watch for in the Canadian business world in the coming week: Poker face: The online gambling company formerly known as Amaya Inc.

THUNDER BAY, Ont. — A 35-year-old Thunder Bay, Ont., man has been charged in a weekend incident that left a man dead and two people injured.

TORONTO — It's not easy to break into Hollywood as a relative outsider, but emerging producer Erika Olde says it can be done. And the 25-year-old's career is proof.

HALIFAX — They feared being swallowed by ocean, but the 78 residents of Gabarus, N.S., never waved a white flag before the federal government.

WETASKIWIN, Alta. — An animal sanctuary south of Edmonton is offering a $10,000 no-questions-asked reward for the return of a blind goat named Daisy.

TORONTO — Oscar-nominee Andrew Garfield says he laughed and cried when he read the script for his latest film, "Breathe," about a man afflicted with polio who is given three months to live.

TORONTO — The Toronto Argonauts signed former NFL linebacker Akeem Jordan to a contract Tuesday and announced Jonathan Himebauch will return to the team as an offensive line coach. Jordan, a six-foot-one 255-pound native of Harrisonburg, Va.

TORONTO — A new report says the real estate boom in Ontario and British Columbia has been a boon for housing-related jobs, but a home-price correction won't trigger a major bust for the labour markets in those provinces.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — He was an Elvis Presley-loving American sailor who spun records for the U.S. Navy radio station on the Caribbean base where he was stationed. She was a local woman whose brother worked at the base.

Police say a six-year-old girl has died after being struck by an SUV in Bayham, Ont. Investigators say Melissa Klassen of Norwich Township, Ont., was running next to the vehicle on a private property when she was hit. They say she died in hospital.