105.9 The Region

LONDON, Ont. — A mischief charge against a doctor who squirted ketchup on the London, Ont., office of a member of Parliament last year has been dropped. The lawyers representing Tarek Loubani, a local physician and activist, said the Crown withdrew the charge after determining it was “not in the public interest” to proceed with […]

TORONTO — Canadian Music Week’s new owners are conducting a major overhaul of the annual industry gathering to broaden its scope beyond music. The long-running Toronto event is set to relaunch next year as the Departure Festival + Conference, which organizers describe as “a reimagined and expanded vision” of the original. They say the festival […]

TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index rose on Tuesday, buoyed by a 21-per-cent gain in shares of Shopify Inc., while U.S. markets pulled back after a weeklong post-election rally. The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 133.73 points at 24,923.01. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 382.15 points at 43,910.98. The S&P […]

TORONTO — RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust says it cut almost 10 per cent of its staff in October in a restructuring push for greater efficiency as the company also holds back on new construction. The company says the cuts, amounting to approximately 50 employees, will mean about $9 million in restructuring charges and should […]

LONDON, Ont. — Lawyers for a doctor who was arrested after squirting ketchup on the London, Ont., office of a member of Parliament last year say the charge against him has been dropped. The lawyers representing Tarek Loubani, a local physician and activist, say the Crown withdrew the mischief charge after determining it was “not […]

TORONTO — Ontario took a new step into pre-election campaign territory Tuesday, with an opposition leader making her first major platform announcement and Premier Doug Ford urging people to vote Progressive Conservative, though he has not as of now called an early election. Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie said Tuesday that if elected she would essentially […]

VANCOUVER — Mike O’Shea and Ryan Dinwiddie are together again at the Grey Cup. Winnipeg faces Toronto in the CFL championship game Sunday at B.C. Place Stadium, the second meeting in three years between the two teams after the Argonauts edged the Blue Bombers 24-23 in the 2022 game. Winnipeg is making its fifth straight […]

OTTAWA — A government-funded report says Black executives within the public service are subject to harassment and intimidation, career stagnation, unjust workloads and, as one executive wrote, a “cesspool of racism.” Rachel Zellars, a lawyer who authored the report for the Black Executives Network, wrote that the interviews she conducted with 73 participants were the […]

TORONTO — Canada’s major film and TV unions are pressuring Telefilm to only fund productions that sign collective agreements. Eight major unions and guilds representing more than 87,000 Canadian film and TV professionals say Telefilm should update its guidelines and only support productions in “good standing” with industry unions. The coalition, which includes ACTRA, the […]

TORONTO — Police say 23 people have been arrested after close to 100 shots were fired between two groups near a recording studio in Toronto last night. Toronto Police Deputy Chief Lauren Pogue says it’s “remarkable” that no one was injured in the gunfire exchange that happened in the area of Queen Street West and […]