105.9 The Region

TORONTO — Pro-Palestinian organizers say charges against four of the five activists arrested for protesting last year’s Giller Prize have been withdrawn. The group CanLit Responds announced the move at a press conference across the street from a Scotiabank branch on Friday morning. The protesters interrupted the literary award in November 2023 carrying signs that […]

HALIFAX — Women’s advocates say provincial and federal governments need to step up efforts to create housing for people escaping gender-based violence because too many women are forced to remain in unsafe situations after being abused. A study released last week by Women’s Shelters Canada says the country’s housing crisis is preventing many people from […]

HAMILTON — Hamilton police say they’ve shut down an alleged ”open air” drug market after a five-week project that led to the arrests of 57 people and more than 100 charges. Police say the King and East area of the city has been the subject of numerous complaints about alleged drug dealing and petty crime, […]

TORONTO — Strength in the technology stocks lifted Canada’s main stock index in late-morning trading, while U.S. stock markets were mixed. The S&P/TSX composite index was up 83.10 points at 25,763.14. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 81.00 points at 44,684.71. The S&P 500 index was up 11.65 points at 6,086.76, […]

Canada’s highest court has dismissed the appeal of a Guelph, Ont., man convicted of drug trafficking after police impersonated a drug dealer in order to arrest him. Dwayne Alexander Campbell argued police violated his Charter right to be free from unreasonable search or seizure in his 2017 arrest. Police seized the cellphone of a known […]

OTTAWA — Canada’s unemployment rate jumped to 6.8 per cent last month as more people looked for work in a weak job market. Statistics Canada’s November labour force survey says the jobless rate last month reached the highest since January 2017, outside of the COVID-19 pandemic. The unemployment rate was 6.5 per cent in October. […]

OTTAWA — The national unemployment rate was 6.8 per cent in November. Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities. It cautions, however, that the figures may fluctuate widely because they are based on small statistical samples. Here are the jobless rates last month by city (numbers from the […]

OTTAWA — Canada’s national unemployment rate was 6.8 per cent in November. Here are the jobless rates last month by province (numbers from the previous month in brackets): _ Newfoundland and Labrador 10.8 per cent (10.1) _ Prince Edward Island 8.0 per cent (10.0) _ Nova Scotia 6.1 per cent (6.2) _ New Brunswick 6.9 […]

OTTAWA — A quick look at Canada’s November employment figures (numbers from the previous month in brackets): Unemployment rate: 6.8 per cent (6.5) Employment rate: 60.6 per cent (60.6) Participation rate: 65.1 per cent (64.8) Number unemployed: 1,516,300 (1,429,000) Number working: 20,647,400 (20,596,900) Youth (15-24 years) unemployment rate: 13.9 per cent (12.8) Men (25 plus) […]

TORONTO — Canadian Tire Corp. Ltd., says it has finished a review of strategic alternatives for its financial services business and decided it will keep 100 per cent ownership of the bank. The retailer says it explored options with a range of interested groups, including several of Canada’s leading financial services companies. Canadian Tire says […]