Ontario generates about $2.4 billion a year from its 14.7 cents-a-litre tax on gasoline, and gives two-cents-a-litre to cities and towns to expand public transit.
rudeau says he believes a free and independent press is an essential part of a strong democracy.
Treasury Board President Scott Brison says he's not surprised the Harper government left behind little fiscal capacity.
Sheila Fynes, whose son Cpl. Stuart Langridge died by his own hand in 2008, says she's been made cautiously optimistic by the promise, but the stigma of mental illness, which can lead to suicide, is still very much a part of the military mindset.
Day parole has been granted to an Alberta man who took nine people hostage at gunpoint in a Workers' Compensation Board office in downtown Edmonton.
The family of a terminally ill seven-year-old boy whose small Ontario town threw him an early Christmas parade has launched a foundation to support brain cancer research.