105.9 The Region

TORONTO — Liberal MP Nate Erskine-Smith is asking supporters for advice on what his next steps should be, with his potential bid to become Ontario Liberal leader in doubt following a nomination loss. Erskine-Smith was vying to represent the provincial party in the upcoming Scarborough Southwest byelection but lost a nomination race last weekend. He […]

TORONTO — For Riley Bisson, the unassuming one-storey house with a red brick exterior in Toronto’s downtown core is more than just a place to safely use drugs without worrying about dying of an overdose. The Moss Park supervised consumption site has become a refuge, a family, a walk-in clinic and a community where Bisson […]

TORONTO — The City of Toronto is expected to release today the second batch of free tickets for its World Cup fan festival. Fans can secure general admission tickets once the online portal opens at 10 a.m. The first allotment of 220,000 free tickets was snapped up within hours of becoming available last week. Toronto […]

TORONTO — Ontario’s top court is expected to release its decision today in the case of former fashion mogul Peter Nygard, who is contesting his sexual assault convictions and prison sentence. Nygard, 84, was convicted of four counts of sexual assault in 2023 and sentenced to 11 years in prison, amounting to nearly seven years […]

An Ontario Provincial Police officer has been charged with manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a man in Norfolk County last year. The Special Investigation Unit says the officers on Lake Erie tried to stop the operator of a personal watercraft at the MacDonald Turkey Point Marina on Aug. 12, 2025. The SIU says the […]

Nick Rose has had 11 years to think about what he would do differently if he ever reached the National Lacrosse League final again. Rose will be in between the pipes when his Toronto Rock host the Halifax Thunderbirds on Friday in Game 1 of the best-of-three championship series. It’s the league’s first all-Canadian final […]

TORONTO — Ontario’s solicitor general says the province will expand its jails by 2,500 beds over the next 10 years at a cost of $3 billion to the taxpayers. Michael Kerzner says the province will build new jails, expand current ones and reopen a few that have closed. He says the province will add 255 […]

VAUGHAN — Police north of Toronto have identified two men who were killed in a targeted shooting outside a home in Vaughan, Ont., on Wednesday. York Region police say they were called to a home near Kaiser Drive and Forest Drive around 5:30 p.m. after reports of gunshots. They say when they arrived, they found […]

TORONTO — Honda Canada indefinitely suspended its plans for a $15-billion electric vehicle complex in Ontario, the Japanese automaker said, as it posted its first-ever annual loss. The company said Thursday the decision does not affect the current employment or production levels at its existing manufacturing facility in Alliston, Ont. Honda said it made the […]

TORONTO — Canada’s chief public health officer says the country is taking a “precautionary approach” in monitoring people who may have had indirect contact with passengers who were on the hantavirus-stricken MV Hondius cruise ship. Provincial and territorial public health authorities are asking 26 people across Canada to monitor for symptoms of hantavirus even though […]