Ontario News

Highlights from the news file for Friday, March 17 ——— CITIES TO GET BILLIONS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING: The federal government is expected to provide close to $12.6 billion to address municipal concerns about affordable housing.

OTTAWA — The cult of celebrity that has seized Canadian politics was on full display this week.

HAMILTON — A Canadian man of Kazakh origins arrested in a massive hack of Yahoo emails appeared briefly via video in a Hamilton court Friday, where a date was set for his bail hearing.

HAMILTON — A Canadian man of Kazakh origins who was arrested in a massive hack of Yahoo emails appeared briefly via video link in a Hamilton, Ontario court on Friday where a date has been set for his bail hearing.

CHETICAMP, N.S.

Two small planes collided over a bustling Quebec shopping mall on Friday. One person was killed and three people were injured.

TORONTO — An Ontario student has been fined $25,000 for accessing personal health information, which provincial officials say is the highest penalty of its kind ever in Canada.

OTTAWA — Canada has answered the UN's call for urgent humanitarian aid to avert the prospect of starvation for some 20 million people in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen.

TORONTO — A White House proposal to eliminate all funding for a program protecting the Great Lakes from environmental harm is drawing outrage and calls of resistance from politicians in Canada and the United States. U.S.

MONTREAL — An educator from a remote northern Quebec community who is vying for a prestigious US$1-million teaching award wanted to keep the spotlight on her students — so she brought three of them to attend the ceremony in the Middle East.