105.9 The Region

TORONTO — Premier Doug Ford’s government has been ordered to keep its hands off three major Toronto bike lanes until a judge can decide whether a plan to remove them is unconstitutional. The injunction handed down Tuesday was heralded as a win by the cyclist group challenging Ontario’s bid to rip up the lanes on […]

Two people accused of murder in the 2022 death of a police officer intentionally killed the constable and fled from the scene in a stolen vehicle because they had “dwindling options” to avoid arrest, the Crown argued Tuesday in its closing submission to the jury. Ontario Provincial Police Const. Grzegorz Pierzchala was shot on Dec. […]

TORONTO — Hudson’s Bay has ended commission pay for workers as the company liquidates most of its stores. Unifor said Tuesday that its members were informed that commissions were eliminated as of April 20 for staff working in cosmetics departments and those who earn extra cash on sales of big-ticket items such as appliances. Canada’s […]

TORONTO — Ontario’s police watchdog says a 16-year-old boy shot by Toronto police during a traffic stop has died in hospital. The Special Investigations Unit says the teen is from Toronto but did not release his name. It initially referred to him as a man. The SIU says police stopped a car near Sheppard Avenue […]

TORONTO — Ontario says it will invest $750 million to boost funding for science, technology, engineering and mathematics programs at colleges and universities across the province. Colleges and Universities Minister Nolan Quinn says the funding will be used to fund 20,500 STEM spots per year. Quinn says the investment in students will help create a […]

Closing submissions are underway in the trial of two people accused of murder in the shooting death of a provincial police officer more than two years ago. Ontario Provincial Police Const. Grzegorz Pierzchala was shot on Dec. 27, 2022 while responding to a vehicle in a ditch west of Hagersville, Ont., near Brantford. Randall McKenzie […]

TORONTO — Canada’s largest private sector union says Hudson’s Bay has ended commission pay for workers as the company liquidates most of its stores. Unifor says its members were informed that commissions were eliminated as of April 20 for staff working in cosmetics departments and those who earn extra cash on sales of big-ticket items […]

TORONTO — The University of Toronto is launching a new climate institute with the help of a $60-million gift. The interdisciplinary Lawson Climate Institute is expected to focus on sustainable technologies, climate policy and efforts to turn the campuses into “living labs” with real-world experiments on new climate solutions. The multi-year gift from Brian and […]

The province’s fire marshal is investigating after man was found dead in a limousine that caught on fire last week in Whitby, Ont. Durham Region police say officers responded to the scene near Consumers Drive and Brock Street just before 9 a.m. on Thursday to assist with a fire call. They say firefighters were on […]

Canadians are reacting to Pope Francis’s death on Easter Monday, which came more than two months after he was hospitalized for a respiratory infection. Here’s what some notable Canadians have to say. “Pope Francis was a voice of moral clarity, spiritual courage, and boundless compassion. He was in many respects the world’s conscience — never […]