105.9 The Region

The final moments of those who took their own lives using products bought online from Kenneth Law were laid out before a packed Ontario courtroom Friday after the Toronto-area man at the heart of an international investigation pleaded guilty to 14 counts of aiding suicide. Some of the 14 Ontarians whose deaths are linked to […]

Toronto police say they have arrested and charged a second suspect in shootings at two synagogues that drew widespread condemnation. Police say the first incident occurred at the Beth Avraham Yoseph of Toronto synagogue in Vaughan, Ont., shortly before midnight on March 6. They say shots were also fired at Shaarei Shomayim synagogue in Toronto’s […]

NEWMARKET — A packed Ontario courtroom is hearing about the last moments of people who died after using deadly products purchased from Kenneth Law, after the Toronto-area man at the heart of an international investigation pleaded guilty to 14 counts of aiding suicide. Some of the 14 Ontarians whose deaths are linked to Law were […]

Bryan Adams is set to kick off the summer of ’26 for the World Cup. The “Cuts Like a Knife” singer will headline a “countdown concert” in Toronto to launch the tournament alongside Haitian hitmaker Wyclef Jean and Canadian-Moroccan artist Nora Fatehi. Described by FIFA as a “first-of-its-kind live multi-city concert,” the show will be […]

NEWMARKET — An Ontario man accused of selling deadly substances online to people at risk of self-harm has pleaded guilty to 14 counts of aiding suicide. Kenneth Law entered the pleas in a Newmarket, Ont., court this morning. Law was scheduled to stand trial last month on these charges as well as 14 of first-degree […]

Social media posts shared a rumour originating from an anonymous forum that claimed Ontario pilots were being hired to spread ticks from the air. The posts fuelled a conspiracy theory that the ticks were being dropped with the intention of infecting more people with Lyme disease. While it’s true Ontario has seen an increased presence […]

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government is in secrecy-by-default mode, opposition critics say after reviewing the content of blue licence plate documents the province had been prepared to fight the release of in the courts. The province’s information and privacy commissioner ordered the release of documents earlier this year on the government’s plan to […]

NEWMARKET — Prosecutors are expected to withdraw more than a dozen murder charges against Kenneth Law today, with the Ontario man at the heart of an international investigation instead pleading guilty to aiding suicide. Law, 60, is accused of selling deadly substances online to people at risk of self-harm, some of whom went on to […]

TORONTO — R.T. Thorne’s post-apocalyptic thriller “40 Acres” dominated the first day of the Canadian Screen Awards, winning nine statuettes on Thursday night. The film, which centres on a Black-Indigenous farming family fighting off a marauding group of cannibals in a famine-stricken future, took home the prize for best original screenplay and best directing. Its […]

TORONTO — A transit advocacy group says the plan to install steel barriers along the subway platform at one downtown Toronto station is a step in the right direction but doesn’t go far enough to keep transit riders truly safe. Mayor Olivia Chow announced the pilot project on Wednesday, saying the new measures aim to […]