Ontario News

NEW YORK — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he takes President Donald Trump at his word when it comes to upcoming trade negotiations and continues to believe adjustments to NAFTA will be minor.

TORONTO — Ontario is developing "substantive rent control reform," the housing minister said Thursday, as the provincial NDP push for tenants in newer units to have the same protections as all other renters.

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. — A fire at a Syncrude oilsands facility in northern Alberta has been extinguished, two days after it broke out.

TORONTO — The plight of a Toronto widow who lost hundreds of thousands of dollars and her home in a dating scam has prompted police to urge vigilance online.

WINNIPEG — Family members say a woman found shot in the back of the head in central Winnipeg this week is the cousin of Tina Fontaine, the teenage girl whose death fuelled calls for a national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women.

Toronto FC has rewarded defender Nick Hagglund with a new contract and signed Finnish centre back Johan Brunell.

TORONTO — Former "Friends" star Matthew Perry says he once beat up Justin Trudeau in grade school over "pure jealousy" of his athletic abilities.

TORONTO — A defeated municipal candidate sanctioned for her failure to file campaign expenses should have been disqualified from running for the Progressive Conservatives in the next Ontario election, a former president of her riding association says

OTTAWA — The chairwoman of the Senate committee on aboriginal people is asking a Conservative senator to rethink her place on the committee after she said there were positive aspects to Canada's residential school system.

OTTAWA — The federal government is bringing in strict measures and fines for anyone who flies a drone too close to an airport or plane.