National News

TORONTO - Ontario politicians of all stripes said Monday they were open to imposing new election spending limits following a huge increase in advertising by so-called third parties during the campaign for the Oct. 6, 2011 vote.

TORONTO — The man considered Canada’s ambassador of amateur sports, who brought football, figure skating and the Olympic Games into the nation’s living rooms, has died at 87.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Pre-writ spending by the Conservatives ahead of a federal byelection in Labrador adds up to an unfair advantage, says the Liberal candidate.

OTTAWA - The Federal Court has ordered Ottawa to reimburse a First Nations band for the cost of taking care of a severely disabled teenager living at home — a ruling that could have widespread implications for federal social services on reserves.

TORONTO - Arts and culture programs in Toronto will be getting a $6 million boost from an unlikely source — billboards.

WINNIPEG - For five years, the idea of political parties in Manitoba taking public subsidies for their day-to-day operations has been a political hot potato — both the governing New Democrats and the Opposition Progressive Conservatives refused to ac

MONTREAL - A Quebec judge says she may look at the contents of a sealed interview with Luka Rocco Magnotta before deciding whether the Crown can have access to it.

HALIFAX - When Nova Scotia's finance minister presents a balanced budget Thursday, she will fulfil a promise that the NDP has tweaked since it first came to power.

AMOS, Que. - They're a long way from the Haitian campus where they dreamed of life abroad at a time when their homeland was under Papa Doc's despotic grip.

TORONTO - The governing Liberals must have given Ontario's public elementary teachers a special deal to resume extracurricular activities, the Progressive Conservatives charged Wednesday.