105.9 The Region

TORONTO (AP) — RJ Barrett scored a season-high 39 points, Jakob Poeltl had 30 points and 15 rebounds for his third straight double-double and the Toronto Raptors snapped a seven-game losing streak by beating the Indiana Pacers 130-119 on Monday night. Toronto came in with the NBA’s worst record at 2-12 and won for the […]

TORONTO — Dozens of protesters gathered outside the Giller Prize gala chanting and waving signs that demanded organizers of the lucrative book prize cut ties with some sponsors associated with Israel. Demonstrators gathered in front of a downtown Toronto hotel late afternoon Monday as the ceremony was about to begin, shouting at cars as they […]

OTTAWA — K’ahsho Got’ine guardians Twyla Edgi-Masuzumi, John Tobac and Buddy Gully pulled more than 300 fish out of the waters last week, distributing them to community members in the Northwest Territories who often struggle with the high cost of food. “It’s very expensive to live here … There’s a lot of people struggling out […]

TORONTO — Controversy yet again cast a shadow over Giller Prize festivities as protesters promised to gather at Monday’s gala hours before it was set to hand out the $100,000 award. The group known as CanLit Responds — working as part of a campaign called No Arms in the Arts — says members including authors […]

TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index climbed Monday as the price of oil and gold both strengthened and investors continued to digest the market implications of another Donald Trump presidency. The S&P/TSX composite index was up 86.26 points at 24,976.94. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 55.39 points at 43,389.60. The […]

OTTAWA — The House of Commons has condemned an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate former Liberal justice minister Irwin Cotler. MPs in the House unanimously supported a Bloc Québécois motion saluting Cotler’s human rights work and recognizing his political contributions, and condemning what it termed death threats orchestrated by agents of a foreign regime. The […]

TORONTO — Ontario’s transportation minister says he doesn’t believe the City of Toronto’s estimate that it will cost $48 million to remove bike lanes on three major roads in the city, but he has not provided an estimate of his own. Prabmeet Sarkaria says the province will look at the costs, but he believes the […]

TORONTO — Toronto Maple Leafs centre Calle Jarnkrok is out month-to-month following groin and sports hernia surgery, the team announced Monday. The 33-year-old Swede has yet to suit up this season after beginning the campaign on long-term injured reserve Oct. 7. Head coach Craig Berube also told reporters during a media availability at the club’s […]

TORONTO — Ontario has tabled a bill that aims to shutter 10 supervised consumption sites the government deems are too close to schools and daycares. The bill, if passed by the majority Progressive Conservative government, would also require municipalities to get provincial approval to launch new supervised consumption sites. The bill would also require municipalities […]

A northern Ontario First Nation has decided it is willing to continue with the process to potentially become host to a deep geological repository for Canada’s nuclear waste. The Nuclear Waste Management Organization plans to select a site this year where millions of bundles of used nuclear fuel will be placed in a network of […]