105.9 The Region

EDMONTON — Happy Birthday, Celsius! Environment Canada’s use of Celsius turns 50 years old in 2025. It was the catalyst of a lengthy national metric conversion that abruptly ended a decade after it began. The result is seen and felt every day. Canadians wear clothes measured in inches and buy gas by the litre. They […]

Toronto police are investigating two separate robberies that took place in the city Monday night, in which all suspects were armed with hammers. Officers were called to Fairview Mall in North York shortly before 9 p.m. after reports of a robbery at a jewelry store. Police say four suspects carrying hammers all took off on […]

TORONTO (AP) — Two teams trying to find their stride in the Professional Women’s Hockey League have made a major trade. The Ottawa Charge and Toronto Sceptres, tied for fifth in the six-team league with identical two-win, three-loss and one overtime loss records, pulled off a four-player swap on Monday. The Charge acquired forward Victoria […]

OWEN SOUND, Ont. — Mason Wray scored in the second period and Trenten Bennett made 37 saves to post the shutout as the Owen Sound Attack edged the visiting Guelph Storm 1-0 in Ontario Hockey League action on Monday night at Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre. Wray scored at 18:34 of the second period and […]

OTTAWA — Canada was in big trouble on an important night. It was New Year’s Eve at the 2009 world junior hockey championship. The United States had jumped out to a 3-0 lead not even 13 minutes into the first period. That’s when John Tavares took over and dragged his country back into the fight. […]

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Maxim Strback scored 2:55 into overtime to lead Slovakia to a 5-4 win over Kazakhstan on Monday at the world junior hockey championship. Slovakia hled a 4-2 lead with less than five minutes remaining in regulation and Kazakh forward Asanali Sarkenov was assessed a 5-minute major and a game misconduct for […]

OTTAWA — Maxim Strback scored two minutes 55 seconds into overtime as Slovakia posted a wild 5-4 win over Kazakhstan on Monday at the world junior hockey championship. Slovakia looked to have the game wrapped up when — leading 4-2 with less than five minutes to go in regulation — Kazakh forward Asanali Sarkenov was […]

TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index suffered a broad-based pullback on the final Monday of 2024, while U.S. markets also fell. The S&P/TSX composite index was down 175.81 points at 24,620.59. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 418.48 points at 42,573.73. The S&P 500 index was down 63.90 points at 5,906.94, […]

TORONTO — Ontario’s labour ministry is investigating an industrial accident on the Toronto set of “Beast Games,” the newly released Prime Video competition series from YouTube star MrBeast. The ministry says a worker was injured by falling wood on Sept. 11 on the set, a miniature village constructed for the show on the grounds of […]

Police say a man who attempted to rob a bank in Hamilton earlier this month had to flee the scene on foot after someone stole his getaway bicycle. Hamilton police say a man entered a BMO bank on Upper Paradise Road on Dec. 18, approached a teller and passed them a note demanding cash. They […]