105.9 The Region

TORONTO — The Writers’ Trust of Canada is set to hand out seven awards and more than $330,000 in prize money at its annual awards bash tonight. Prizes include outstanding debut book by an LGBTQ2S+ emerging writer, best non-fiction and fiction books, and career achievement awards. Poet-novelists Canisia Lubrin and Fawn Parker are among the […]

TORONTO — Ontario is launching a new mental health program for first responders. The province says the Mental Health Supports for Public Safety Personnel program will provide help for police officers, correctional workers, paramedics and firefighters. The $32-million program will include a 24-hour call line and a web portal for services such as internet-based cognitive […]

TORONTO — An insurance crime and fraud prevention group says the Toyota Highlander was the most stolen vehicle in 2023, dethroning the Honda CR-V as the nation’s top stolen car for two years in a row. Non-profit Équité Association says the Toyota Highlander topped the list as criminals continue to target vehicles that maximize profit […]

TORONTO — The Maple Leafs announced Tuesday that they have placed forward David Kampf on injured reserve, putting more strain on Toronto’s already depleted forward lines. The Leafs said Kampf is out with a lower-body injury and the move is retroactive to Saturday, when Kampf logged over 14 minutes of ice time in Toronto’s 4-3 […]

OTTAWA — Canada’s annual inflation rate was two per cent in October, Statistics Canada says. The agency also released rates for major cities, but cautioned that figures may have fluctuated widely because they are based on small statistical samples (previous month in brackets): — St. John’s, N.L.: 1.3 per cent (1.1) — Charlottetown-Summerside: 1.7 per […]

OTTAWA — Canada’s annual inflation rate was two per cent in October, Statistics Canada says. Here’s what happened in the provinces (previous month in brackets): — Newfoundland and Labrador: 1.1 per cent (0.7) — Prince Edward Island: 1.3 per cent (1.0) — Nova Scotia: 1.5 per cent (0.9) — New Brunswick: 1.8 per cent (0.9) […]

NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. — A 40-year-old woman is facing charges in the death of a toddler who was found without vital signs in a Niagara Falls, Ont., home last year. Niagara regional police say officers found the two-year-old child after they were called to a home on Nov. 21, 2023. They say an autopsy later […]

TORONTO — George Weston Ltd. reported a third-quarter profit attributable to common shareholders of $15 million compared with a profit of $610 million in the same quarter a year ago as it was hit by a large one-time charge. The company, which owns a majority stake in Loblaw Companies Ltd. and a large stake in […]

TORONTO — Ontario is proposing a pilot project to tweak long-term care priority rules in order to address a problem of declining and mismatched admissions to the province’s cultural homes. The issue was created by the Progressive Conservative government’s own 2022 law known as Bill 7, which has been criticized for allowing people to be […]

TORONTO — Toronto poet-novelist Anne Michaels appealed for “unity” in Canada’s arts community on Monday night as she accepted the Giller Prize, an award boycotted by several prominent Canadian authors over its sponsors’ ties to Israel. Michaels won the $100,000 fiction prize for her novel “Held,” a multigenerational look at war and trauma spanning more […]