Local News from Canada

A C-average in high school may not open the same doors from sea to sea.

Office clerks and salespeople took over the graveyard shift at several cemeteries across the region yesterday to make sure no caskets were left unburied when gravediggers hit the picket lines.

Officials say the groundbreaking ceremony for the TTC's $2 billion Spadina subway extension is expected as early as September – more than two years after the plan was unveiled.

The updates come early this month:

While Igor Kenk, accused in a massive series of bike thefts, appears at a bail hearing today along with his respected concert-pianist wife and a second accused man, bike-theft victims can go claim their stolen wheels.

An ex-school bus driver arrested for failure to give adequate breathalyzer samples was unsteady on his feet, slurred his words, and had a fixed stare during investigation, a police officer testified yesterday.

Fan Yang of Mississauga, the Bubble King of the world, is on a slippery slope.

Shell casings and shards of glass were discovered on a highway overpass yesterday about two kilometres east of where an SUV driver told detectives he and three friends were attacked.

Improvements worth $9.3 billion over the next six years are coming for Ontario highways, public transit systems, rural Internet access and other infrastructure under a new federal-provincial deal.

Nine billion dollars is a lot of money, but not compared with $100 billion.

More than 40,000 people are expected to pack the small village of Pemberton, about a 25 minute drive north of Whistler, B.C., for one of North America's biggest music festivals of the summer.

Cancelled CBC crime drama Intelligence is being marketed to U.S. cable networks after being turned down for further development at Fox, according to its Los Angeles producer.

Heart patients in Alberta will get the health care they need more quickly with the aid of patient navigators who will guide them through the system, the province announced Wednesday.

Major League Soccer's board of governors has approved plans to expand by two teams by 2011, commissioner Don Garber announced Thursday.

Ryan Dinwiddie allayed any doubts in his first start of the season for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on Thursday night, throwing for 450 yards and the winning touchdown with just 12 seconds left.

Major League Soccer's board of governors has approved plans to expand by two teams by 2011, commissioner Don Garber announced Thursday.

The man Chinese authorities accuse of killing a B.C. model in Shanghai earlier this month says he stabbed Diana O'Brien after she hit him and knocked him to the floor, reports a Shanghai television news program.

Ryan Dinwiddie allayed any doubts in his first start of the season for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on Thursday night, throwing for 450 yards and the winning touchdown with just 12 seconds left.

Firefighters will hose down two high-rise buildings in downtown Calgary on Friday as part of a training exercise.