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A retired Anglican minister in Ontario, jailed Thursday for molesting five young girls in the 1960s and '70s, faces two more indecent assault charges. Ontario Provincial Police say two victims, one of which was a young child and the other a young teen...
Tags: Ontario Provincial Police, sex offences, indecent assault, Ontario, Assault, Sex scandals, Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal, Law Crime
Drugs like OxyContin are killing users in Ontario at twice the rate they were in 1991, a new study suggests. An international study that included doctors at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children appears to shed new light on a particular type of brain...
Tags: Ontario, Health Medical Pharma, Pulmonology, Tuberculosis
Ontario's much-ballyhooed efforts to reduce climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions are insufficient to meet its targets, the province's environmental commissioner concluded Tuesday. "We will fail," Gord Miller told a Queen's Park news conference as...
Tags: Gord Miller, Ontario, Environment, Dalton McGuinty
Here in Canada, Peter MacKay is under the gun for what he knew or didn’t know regarding allegations of torture of Afghan detainees. Yesterday, in the House opposition MPs came close to calling for Mr. MacKay’s resignation. Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff...
Tags: Peter MacKay, HST, Mr. MacKay, Michael Ignatieff, Ontario, Russian nobility, Liberal Party of Canada, Politics, Canadians of German descent, Stephen Harper, Ignatieff, Canadians of Scottish descent
The province has again been slammed by an expert in human trafficking for failing to take steps necessary to protect victims from predators who profit from the human flesh trade. "The Ontario government should be very well aware that they are responsible...
Tags: human trafficking, Ontario, Benjamin Perrin, Rick Bartolucci, Bob Runciman, Human rights abuses, Social Issues, Crimes against humanity, Child labour, Crimes, Human trafficking in Australia, Smuggling
A n English-only tourism campaign aimed at luring Ontario residents to la belle province has backfired on Quebec officials, who have found themselves in the midst of a language flap instead. French-speaking residents of Ontario said they were insulted...
Tags: Tourism Quebec, Ontario, Quebec Ministry of Tourism, outside quebec, Provinces and territories of Canada, French Canadian, Quebec, Politics of Quebec, Culture of Quebec, Language policy, Franco-Ontarian
T oday's top stories from Report on Business : Bernanke cautious on outlook Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke today squashed speculation that he might pull back early from the central bank's emergency measures. After a speech to the Economic Club...
Tags: Digital China Holdings Ltd., Federal Reserve, UBS Securities Canada, China Mobile, China Unicom, Barack Obama, currency strategist, RIM, Ben Bernanke, Washington, Ontario, Bailout, Business Finance, UBS AG, Troubled Asset Relief Program
The Ontario government is doing a poor job of determining who is eligible for welfare and disability aid and hasn't done enough to recover more than $1.2 billion in overpayments, says the province's auditor general. A woman in her 40s died Monday after...
Tags: Ontario, Toronto, auditor general, poor job, disability aid, Michael Bryant, ontario government, Canada, Toronto Police Service, Social Issues, Law Crime, Politics, Richard Peck, Negligence, Attorney General of Ontario, Cobourg Ontario, Prosecutor, Cobourg railway station
T he whining pundit longing for debates on matters of substance is a trope long past its due date, but I’m compelled to tread my deep worn tracks once again. The level of political discourse at Queen's Park last week was well below that found in a three-year-old’s...
Tags: courts systems, Ontario, Canada, Toronto, Dispute resolution, Legal procedure, Court systems, Small claims court, Discovery, Lawsuit, Lawyer, Civil procedure
The Canadian province of Newfoundland Monday was digging out from a record snowfall of 15.5 inches in St...Sunday's storm easily surpassed, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported. The CBC said the snow, which was driven by wind gusts of more than 60...
Tags: Newfoundland, Ontario, Weather, Winter storms of 2007¬タモ08, Blizzards, Winter storms of 2006¬タモ07, Ice storms