105.9 The Region

An online post has garnered widespread attention for claiming that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spent millions of Western taxpayers’ dollars on a personal underground bunker in Nova Scotia. The post, which has received more than a million views and thousands of shares on the social media platform X, includes a video news report with the […]

Frank Stronach’s lawyer says one charge of sexual assault against her client in an upcoming Newmarket, Ont., trial has been dropped. Leora Shemesh says the prosecution involving one complainant in the trial set for next year has been withdrawn. Documents filed in court showed that complainant had alleged a sexual assault took place in York […]

SEATTLE — The Maple Leafs are down another key forward. The team says Kirill Marchenko will be out week-to-week with a lower-body injury. Toronto provided the status update before its game Wednesday night against the Kraken in Seattle The 26-year-old departed Monday’s 5-2 loss in Calgary after getting bumped by Flames winger Yegor Sharangovich. Marchenko […]

Bryan Adams is raging against geographical renamings. The Kingston, Ont.-born rocker has released a new single called “Lake Ontario,” which appears to take shots at U.S. president Donald Trump. In August, Trump signed an executive order directing U.S. federal agencies to refer to Lake Ontario as “Lake America.” Adams said in a statement his new […]

Domestic violence charges of assault and assault with a weapon against the member of provincial parliament for Sault Ste. Marie have been withdrawn. Chris Scott was charged for an alleged incident on Sept. 19, 2025, prompting his removal from the Progressive Conservative caucus. Court documents specified the charges were being treated as alleged intimate partner […]

TORONTO — Regis Korchinski-Paquet’s brother told a coroner’s inquest into her death today that the police officers who responded to reports of a fight involving knives had time to see that neither she nor her family members were a threat once they arrived at the scene.
 Reece Korchinski previously testified that the five police officers […]

TORONTO — Ontario’s environment minister says he hopes to burn more garbage for energy and build more landfills following U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff on Canadian trash. Environment Minister Todd McCarthy says Ontario’s landfills will be full within 10 years and the province needs to act quickly. U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order […]

TORONTO — Ontario is matching the federal government’s recent move to give businesses a tax break on capital investments. Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy made the announcement ahead of the Thursday’s fall economic statement. Last year, Prime Minister Mark Carney and the federal government allowed businesses to immediately deduct 100 per cent of the cost of […]

AJAX — A police officer in Ajax, Ont., has been charged in a child exploitation investigation. The 31-year-old man was arrested last week after the Ontario Provincial Police received a report about the sexual exploitation of a young person. He faces two counts each of luring and making sexually explicit material available to a person […]

TORONTO — In addition to freezing Ontario Student Assistance Program payments to all private post-secondary institutions, the province has paused at least some funding through Better Jobs Ontario, which helps unemployed people get skills training. But the government won’t explicitly say so. There has been no public communication from the government about the status of […]