105.9 The Region

SARNIA, Ont. — Carter Kostuch scored the shootout winner to give the Sarnia Sting a 2-1 win over the Flint Firebirds in Ontario Hockey League play on Wednesday. Alessandro Di Iorio scored in regulation for Sarnia and Matthew Wang tallied for Flint. Sting goaltender Nick Surzycia stopped 42 of 43 shots. GREYHOUNDS 5 SPIRIT 3 […]

TORONTO (AP) — Evan Mobley scored 25 points, Donovan Mitchell had 21 and the Cleveland Cavaliers routed the Toronto Raptors 136-106 on Wednesday night. Caris LeVert shot 8 for 9 and scored 19 points, and Jarrett Allen had 14 for the Cavs, whose biggest lead was 33. Cleveland won for the first time in five […]

TORONTO — Evan Mobley had 25 points and eight rebounds to lead the Cleveland Cavaliers to a 136-106 rout in Toronto’s home opener on Wednesday as the Raptors also lost starting point guard Immanuel Quickley. Quickley had 13 points, four assists and two rebounds for Toronto (0-1) before leaving the game late in the first […]

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told his MPs Wednesday that he would reflect on what they had to say in a three-hour caucus meeting where some Liberals confronted him about his leadership. Trudeau was smiling when he left the meeting on Wednesday afternoon, and as he walked briskly past a horde of reporters on […]

TORONTO — Raptors head coach Darko Rajakovic has confirmed that Canadian swingman RJ Barrett was ruled out for Toronto’s home opener against the Cleveland Cavaliers. Barrett left Toronto’s first pre-season game on Oct. 6 early with a sprained shoulder and has not played since. The product of Mississauga, Ont., said on Tuesday he was day-to-day […]

Police were called into a meeting at the Niagara Catholic District School Board on Tuesday as audience members grew hostile while the board debated a motion to ban the Pride flag from school properties, which was ultimately voted down. The motion, introduced by trustee Natalia Benoit, would have amended the board’s flag protocol to specify […]

A man who stabbed a professor and two students in a University of Waterloo gender studies class last year appeared to be in a “downward spiral of functioning” and may have experienced a psychotic break in the weeks before the attack, a psychologist told his sentencing hearing Wednesday. Geovanny Villalba-Aleman’s mental health deteriorated after he […]

TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index closed down Wednesday as the Bank of Canada cut its key interest rate by half a percentage point, while U.S. stock markets also fell. The S&P/TSX composite index closed down 143.08 points at 24,573.62 in broad losses led by energy and tech. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial […]

TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index closed down Wednesday as the Bank of Canada cut its key interest rate by half a percentage point, while U.S. stock markets also fell. The S&P/TSX composite index closed down 143.08 points at 24,573.62 in broad losses led by energy and tech. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial […]

TORONTO — Canadian financial institutions say they are lowering their prime lending rates to match the decrease announced by the Bank of Canada. The central bank lowered its key interest rate by half a percentage point Wednesday to 3.75 per cent. All of the Big Six banks including RBC, TD, BMO, Scotiabank, CIBC and National […]