105.9 The Region

TORONTO — Bo Horvat had two goals and an assist as the New York Islanders topped the Toronto Maple Leafs 6-3 on Saturday night. Maxim Tsyplakov, Jean-Gabriel Pageau, Isaiah George, with his first in the NHL, and Mathew Barzal, into the empty net, also scored for New York (13-14-7), which got 27 saves from Ilya […]

TORONTO — Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews sat out Saturday night’s game against the New York Islanders with an undisclosed injury. Toronto head coach Craig Berube said the 27-year-old took a cross-check to his back late in Friday’s 6-3 victory over the Buffalo Sabres. Matthews missed nine games last month with an upper-body injury that […]

The Special Investigations Unit has launched an investigation after an Ontario Provincial Police officer shot a man with an anti-riot weapon on Friday night in Huron County. Investigators say at around 3:30 p.m. officers were called to a residence in Seaforth in relation to a man in distress. They say officers entered the residence and […]

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has issued a recall due to possible norovirus contamination of certain oysters distributed in British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario. The agency says the recall covers certain Fanny Bay, Sunseeker and Cloudy Bay oysters under the Taylor Shellfish Canada brand. The recall says most of the affected oysters were harvested and […]

TORONTO — Laura Stacey scored the overtime winner for the Montreal Victoire in a 4-3 win over the host Toronto Sceptres in the Professional Women’s Hockey League on Sunday. Stacey struck just 15 seconds into OT on a breakaway going forehand to backhand on Toronto goaltender Raygan Kirk. Toronto (1-0-1-3) led 2-0 and 3-2 at […]

TORONTO — Despite having previously traded away its first-round pick, Toronto FC managed to find some value in the MLS SuperDraft. TFC’s haul produced an athletic centre back, versatile midfielder and Liberian international winger. After dealing the ninth overall selection to expansion San Diego FC last week in the deal that netted Brazilian winger Thiago […]

OTTAWA — An “overheated” immigration system that admitted record numbers of newcomers to the country has harmed Canada’s decades-old consensus on the benefits of immigration, Immigration Minister Marc Miller said, as he reflected on the changes in his department in a year-end interview. The system, he said, needed some discipline to get the country back […]

LONDON, Ont. — Denver Barkey and Logan Hawery each scored twice as the London Knights knocked off the visiting Sarnia Sting 6-1 in Ontario Hockey League action on Friday night at Canada Life Place. Blake Montgomery and Sam O’Reilly had a goal and two assists for the Midwest Division-leading Knights (27-6-0-0), while Cam Allen and […]

OTTAWA — The fall sitting of the House of Commons featured non-confidence votes, plenty of partisan bickering, and very little actual passing of laws. The session that ended Dec. 17 will go down as one of the least productive in Canadian history, and possibly one of the most partisan. Here’s a look at what happened, […]

OTTAWA — Canada Post says it has processed its backlog of parcels from the month-long strike and expects a significant portion of them to be delivered before Christmas. As the Crown corporation ramps up operations, it says post offices are open for business and new commercial mail can be dropped off for processing, while scheduled […]