Ontario News

TORONTO — Celebrated style icon Iris Apfel will receive a special honour at the upcoming Canadian Arts and Fashion Awards. The 96-year-old American fashion and interior designer will be honoured with the inaugural International Style Icon Award.

REGINA — The lawyer for a family of an aboriginal man fatally shot on a farm says he's disgusted by a resolution on rural crime passed at the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities convention.

TORONTO — A Toronto man is facing charges in a child pornography investigation. Police say they searched a home in midtown Toronto on Wednesday and arrested a 20-year-old man.

TORONTO — The Juno Awards are making way for more music by adding an extra half hour to this year's telecast. Organizers for the country's biggest music celebration say it's the first time the Junos have expanded to a longer format in five years.

TORONTO — The chatty Canadian dreamer that is Anne of Green Gables is internationally beloved for her cheery qualities: a big imagination, bold spirit and face full of freckles.

TORONTO — There's been much talk lately about Disney's first openly gay character in its new live-action remake of "Beauty and the Beast," but cast member Audra McDonald says she thinks the situation has "been really overblown.

HAMILTON — Two Hamilton residents are facing a number of fraud charges after allegedly placing false advertisements on the website Kijiji.

TORONTO — Canada's largest pension fund manager and two partners have acquired US$1.6 billion worth of student housing properties in the United States.

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. — A fire that broke out at a Syncrude oilsands site in northern Alberta was the result of a supply line that broke and leaked light oil, a company spokesman said Wednesday.

OTTAWA — Society failed the young Ottawa boy who endured being chained up, tortured and sexually abused at the hands of his father, a disgraced former RCMP officer, the victim's maternal aunt told a sentencing hearing Wednesday.