105.9 The Region

TORONTO — The union representing more than 10,000 full-time college support staff at Ontario’s 24 public colleges says its members have ratified a new, three-year contract. The Ontario Public Service Employees Union says more than 75 per cent of the membership voted, with 89 per cent in favour of the new agreement. The union reached […]

Children’s author Robert Munsch is donating his stash of story drafts, publisher notes and fan letters to the Guelph Public Library. The southwestern Ontario library says the collection will offer a rare glimpse into Munsch’s decades-long career, during which he penned bedtime classics including “The Paperbag Princess,” “Love You Forever” and “Mortimer.” The Munsch family […]

ST. JOHN’S — A man convicted of raping two women and a 15-year-old girl in downtown St. John’s, N.L., died in federal custody on Saturday. Correctional Service Canada says Sofyan Boalag was 46 years old and serving an indeterminate sentence at the Bath Institution, about 20 kilometres west of Kingston, Ont. A spokesperson said privacy […]

TORONTO — Toronto police are investigating vandalism at a north end synagogue in what its rabbi says is the 10th such incident over the past year and a half. Police say officers responded to reports of smashed windows at the Kehillat Shaarei Torah temple on Bayview Avenue early this morning. Officers arrived to find four […]

Award-winning producer Boi-1da feels like a kid in a candy store. And why not when The Tragically Hip gives you access to their entire catalogue. The Hip, Alessia Cara, Charlotte Cardin, Loud Luxury, Nelly Furtado and Zeds Dead are the first wave of Canadian musicians joining forces with Boi-1da (pronounced Boy Wonder) on the so-called […]

Epic comebacks. Thrilling marathons. All-time performances from some of the game’s all-time greats. The Toronto Blue Jays’ heartbreaking, seven-game World Series loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers had it all — from a Game 1 blowout to the final out in the 11th inning of Game 7 at Rogers Centre. Was it the best Fall […]

OTTAWA — Here is a day-by-day chronology of the controversy over Ontario’s advertising campaign against U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods: Tues., Oct. 14: The office of Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the province will spend $75 million to broadcast an anti-tariff ad in the United States using video of an address by former U.S. president […]

TORONTO — Sidney Crosby and his teammates landed in Toronto late Saturday night. The Pittsburgh Penguins had just flown in from Winnipeg following a 5-2 loss to the Jets that afternoon. The club’s superstar captain had a singular focus once the plane touched down — tuning into the conclusion of an epic World Series. It […]

TORONTO — The Toronto Transit Commission chair is apologizing for social media posts that suggested transit service would end at 1:30 a.m. after the final World Series game ran late, calling them a “mistake.” Jamaal Myers says the last subway train left Union Station around 1:45 a.m. and the TTC had planned to run later […]

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford says Prime Minister Mark Carney called him “a couple of times” from Asia to ask him to pull an ad campaign that’s being blamed for ending trade talks with the United States. Carney said this weekend that he told Ford he didn’t think the province should run the ad […]