105.9 The Region

TORONTO — Durham Regional Police have released body camera footage showing the capture of a kangaroo that escaped from its handlers east of Toronto last week.  The four-and-a-half minute video, which has a timecode of 7:10 a.m. Monday, shows police officers holding onto the female kangaroo’s tail and petting its back as another officer puts […]

TORONTO — Ontario’s municipal affairs and housing minister says he has not yet made any decisions on the break up of Peel Region, though he is now calling it a “potential” dissolution.  Paul Calandra’s comments come amid media reports citing unnamed sources that say the government is reconsidering its plan to dissolve the upper-tier municipality […]

TORONTO — “Letterkenny” creator and star Jared Keeso has signed a multi-year content deal to develop spinoffs and new series for Crave. The deal comes as the 12th and final season of “Letterkenny” is set to premiere Dec. 25. Crave and New Metric Media say the deal will expand the “Letterkenny” universe with 49 episodes […]

TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index was down in late-morning trading as losses in the energy sector helped offset strength in the base metal, telecommunication and utility stocks   as the price of oil fell below US$70 a barrel. The S&P/TSX composite index was down 8.57 points at 20,367.36. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial […]

TORONTO — The Ontario auditor general’s office published its annual report Wednesday. Here are some of the highlights: – One in five emergency visits involved patients going to the ER for non-urgent issues because they didn’t have a family doctor or access to other services. – Between 2018-19 and 2022-23, northern hospitals increased usage of […]

A coroner’s inquest into the death of a mentally ill man at an Ontario jail is hearing from a correctional officer who had the man recorded on video in an effort to document his deteriorating condition. Clark Moss, who was a sergeant at the Central East Correctional Centre at the time, says he had an […]

TORONTO — A chaotic comedy about a generation-defining smartphone and a drama about a tortured opera director are among the Toronto International Film Festival’s picks for best Canadian films of the year. TIFF’s annual Canada’s Top Ten list includes Matt Johnson’s “BlackBerry,” the Toronto director’s rollicking account of the meteoric rise and disastrous demise of […]

Durham Regional Police have released body camera footage showing the capture of a kangaroo that escaped from its handler east of Toronto last week.  The four-and-a-half minute video, which has a timecode of 7:10 a.m. Monday, shows police officers holding onto the female kangaroo’s tail and petting her back as another officer puts a leash […]

TORONTO — Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government spent about $25 million — or three quarters of its total advertising spending — last year on ads the auditor general believes are partisan. Acting auditor general Nick Stavropoulos says in the office’s annual report today that while the government spent about half of what it did the previous […]

TORONTO — Ontario’s acting auditor general says the government is not respecting or using public consultation on environmental impacts in its decision making, particularly in its now-reversed plan to open up the protected Greenbelt for housing development. A section in the auditor general office’s annual report says the government did not follow the Environmental Bill […]