105.9 The Region

TORONTO — Sun Life Financial Inc.’s share price was under pressure Thursday after the insurance giant reported a big earnings miss driven by various factors including claims headwinds in its U.S. division. Shares were down more than 10 per cent in morning trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange before regaining a bit of ground to […]

TORONTO — Ontario’s NDP and Liberal party leaders cried foul Thursday over a trip Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford took to Washington, D.C., in the middle of a snap election he called, saying he’s touting that visit for partisan purposes. NDP Leader Marit Stiles said she is planning to write to the province’s integrity commissioner […]

OTTAWA — Canada has announced sweeping changes to a program designed to ensure First Nations kids get the care and supports they need, when they need them. The changes come almost a year after the federal government argued before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal that requests for funding under Jordan’s Principle were including things like […]

OTTAWA — Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney is vowing to incentivize prefabricated and modular home building to help tackle the housing affordability crisis. Carney laid out broad strokes of part of his housing plan in Vancouver. Rival candidate Chrystia Freeland meanwhile says she has a plan to woo back Canadian doctors and nurses practicing in […]

OTTAWA — Canada’s aid sector is rallying around a call for Ottawa to use its place on the world stage to promote education as a way of shoring up global security. Canada is hosting the G7 leaders’ summit this June in Alberta and typically the host makes an international development pledge. Aid groups and Canadian […]

TORONTO — Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles says she is planning to write to the province’s integrity commissioner to ask him to look into Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford’s trip to Washington, D.C. Ford and the country’s other premiers travelled there this week to push back against U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to impose steep […]

TORONTO — Sun Life Financial Inc. says it earned $237 million in its fourth quarter. That’s down from $749 million a year earlier. The insurance company says diluted earnings per share were 41 cents, down from $1.28 during the fourth quarter of 2023. Sun Life says underlying net income for the quarter was $965 million, […]

TORONTO — Sun Life Financial Inc. shares are trading down close to 10 per cent after disappointing fourth-quarter earnings results. The insurance giant says it earned $237 million in its fourth quarter, down from $749 million a year earlier. Earnings worked out to $0.41 per share, far below the $1.69 per share expected by analysts […]

OTTAWA — The Liberal party says it will not accommodate leadership hopeful Ruby Dhalla’s request for a translator at the upcoming French debate in Montreal. Party spokesman Parker Lund says only the candidates and the moderator will be allowed on the debate stage and no translation will be provided. Dhalla said in a recent interview […]

TORONTO — Strength in technology and telecom stocks helped lift Canada’s main stock index in late-morning trading, while U.S. stock markets also rose. The S&P/TSX composite index was up 74.47 points at 25,637.58. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 162.46 points at 44,531.02. The S&P 500 index was up 39.10 points […]