105.9 The Region

TORONTO — Wearing the Maple Leaf is a labour of love for the Canada Wolverines. It also comes with a cost, with players paying their own way for a camp and international rugby league test match against Jamaica in Toronto. English-born prop Louis Robinson dug into his pocket for a return flight from London. That […]

TORONTO — Justin Kent cruised to his first Canadian men’s marathon title in Toronto on Sunday. Kent, the 32-year-old from Surrey, B.C., crossed the finish line at the TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon in a personal-best time of two hours 12 minutes 17 seconds to become national champion. Ethiopia’s Mulugeta Uma claimed the overall championship in […]

TORONTO — Toronto police say they’ve arrested a woman wanted in a fatal shooting last month. The shooting took place the morning of Sept. 1 in the midtown area. Police say they found a 37-year-old from Brampton, Ont., with gunshot wounds. They say the victim died in hospital. A Canada-wide warrant was issued for a […]

TORONTO — Five things to watch for in the Canadian business world in the coming week: Railway earnings Canada’s two largest railways will report their third-quarter results this week. Canadian National Railway Co. will report its results after the close of markets on Tuesday, while Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. will report after the market […]

TORONTO — Chris Tanev’s willingness to put his body on the line was well-known long before he joined the Maple Leafs. His new teammates got their first up-close look at the toll it takes — and the veteran defenceman’s toughness. Tanev took a Mika Zibanejad one-time blast off what appeared to be an unpadded part […]

TORONTO — Denis Villeneuve has worked in cybersecurity for 15 years but seldom have the threats he’s come across felt as personal as they do these days. Employees at his workplace, technology firm Kyndryl, have been sent fake videos of CEO Martin Schroeter designed to lure them into handing over their login credentials to fraudsters. […]

OTTAWA — Forecasters expect the Bank of Canada to speed up the pace of interest rate cuts and lower its policy rate by half a percentage point this week. The central bank’s interest rate announcement on Wednesday comes after Statistics Canada reported the annual inflation rate in September tumbled to 1.6 per cent — below […]

TORONTO — Ontario’s legislature will resume sitting Monday after an unusually long summer break, and returns in the midst of intense speculation that Premier Doug Ford will call an early election. Some of the premier’s remarks and announcements over the past few months — from the idea to dig a tunnel under Highway 401 to […]

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Drake Batherson had two goals and an assist, and the Ottawa Senators handed Tampa Bay its first loss of the season with a 5-4 victory over the Lightning on Saturday. Josh Norris, Brady Tkachuk and Noah Gregor also scored for Ottawa (3-2-0), and Anton Forsberg made 25 saves. Jake Sanderson collected […]

BRAMPTON, Ont. — Kristian Epperson capped off a three-point game with a goal five seconds into overtime to lift the visiting Saginaw Spirit to a 3-2 Ontario Hockey League victory over the Brampton Steelheads on Saturday at the CAA Centre. Michael Misa scored twice and added an assist, while Epperson chipped in with two assists […]