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Last Friday, Shell Pipeline shut down their West Columbia Texas pipeline after it was found that 700 barrels had been lost, which amounts to almost 30,000 gallons of crude oil. A train derailed in Canada, and then there was that Mayflower, AR incident.

Toronto - Industry representatives and the public are invited to attend the Ontario Cycle Tourism Forum, a one day conference in Toronto on Friday March 1st

Many families in Ontario send their children to a Catholic high school because they like the school or it is closer to home. However, if those families are not Catholic, should their children be obligated to take religion classes?

Toronto - Kathleen Wynne is Ontario's first female and openly gay premier. Wynne won the leadership of the Liberal Party of Ontario on the third ballot with 1,150 votes to Pupatello's 866. She becomes the sixth female premier in Canada..

Toronto - Glen Murray, a former Winnipeg Mayor and Cabinet Minister, announced Thursday that he is ending his bid for the Ontario Liberal leadership nomination. Instead, he will be endorsing frontrunner Kathleen Wynne.

Toronto - Jack Layton's widow Ontario MP Olivia Chow told followers on Facebook and Twitter this morning that she has Ramsey Hunt Syndrome but that she is healthy.

There was much talk about Ontario Teachers strikes and work to rule actions coming up on the December 31, 2012 deadline before Bill 115 took affect and little mention of how the teachers' actions affect the Ontario seasonal and tourism economy.

When children go back to school in Ontario it will not be business as usual, said Sam Hammond, Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario president this morning, after Education Minister Laurel Broten imposed contracts using Bill 115 on teachers Thursda

Toronto - There's been a lot of talk about the plight of the homeless with recent budget cuts in Ontario but what about women fleeing abuse? Are the victims of domestic violence also victims of the budget cuts?

Toronto - It's a cold day in Toronto and expected to get colder in the next week. For the city's homeless the coming year will be one of the hardest times in the recent past.