105.9 The Region

OTTAWA — The foreign affairs minister’s office says another plane is set to leave Lebanon today to evacuate Canadians from the country as conflict escalates between Israel and the Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah. A plane with 291 seats was booked for today with 104 passengers confirmed, including Canadians, UN staff and foreign nationals. On Sunday, […]

Lawyers for a man accused of selling poison online to people who later used it to take their own lives are seeking to intervene in an application to Canada’s top court that they argue could affect his criminal case. The legal team representing Kenneth Law has filed a motion for leave to intervene after prosecutors […]

TORONTO — Canadian doctors are being told to consider scurvy when assessing patients at risk of poor nutrition and food insecurity. A case study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal warns the syndrome most associated with 18th-century seafaring persists in modern times. It describes a 65-year-old woman who turned up last year at a Toronto […]

TORONTO (AP) — In “We Live in Time,” Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield act an entire life of a relationship — a gamut of dating, falling in love, having a child and reckoning with cancer. So when Garfield recently went on a six-day retreat in the woods without his phone, one of his first texts […]

TORONTO — Victor Lapena is out as head coach of the Canadian women’s basketball team. Canada Basketball says the organization and Lapena mutually agreed to part ways. The move comes a few months after the Canadian team failed to record a win in three games at the Paris Olympics. Lapena led the team to a […]

OTTAWA — A federal inquiry says the Liberal government has consented to the public disclosure of summaries of cabinet documents about foreign interference. Four memorandums to cabinet, generally considered closely held confidences, were provided to the commission of inquiry as part of its terms of reference. In a statement today, the inquiry says that following […]

Billionaire businessman Frank Stronach, who faces multiple sex assault charges, has had his case put over to next month as lawyers work to have the matter moved to a court in Toronto. A Crown attorney told a Brampton, Ont., court on Monday that prosecutors have agreed to transfer the case to Toronto, where most of […]

TORONTO — KPMG says nine in 10 Canadian CEOs are considering making an acquisition within the next three years to help boost their company’s growth. A pair of surveys by the firm released Monday show four in 10 Canadian CEOs are planning major deals, while nearly three quarters of small- and medium-sized businesses are considering […]

TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index inched lower in late-morning trading, weighed down by losses in the utility sector, as U.S. stock markets also fell. The S&P/TSX composite index was down 8.52 points at 24,154.31. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 123.99 points at 42,228.76. The S&P 500 index was down […]

Dr. Rosemarie Lall says she was overworked and on the brink of either scaling back her practice or retiring early when she turned to artificial intelligence in a last-ditch effort to manage mounting paperwork. The Toronto family physician says she would regularly go home and work on her patients’ files well into the night. But […]