105.9 The Region

PETERBOROUGH, Ont. — Luke McNamara scored twice as the Kingston Frontenacs defeated the Peterborough Petes 7-2 on Thursday in the lone Ontario Hockey League game on the schedule. Ben Pickell, Maleek McGowan, Ethan Miedema, Jacob Battaglia and Tyler Hopkins had the other goals for Kingston. Frontenacs goaltender Mason Vaccari kicked out 30 of 32 shots. […]

TORONTO — The Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the Montreal Canadiens 2-1 on Thursday for their first win of the pre-season but star forward William Nylander left the game with an injury and did not return. John Tavares and Nick Robertson scored for Toronto. Christian Dvorak tallied for Montreal. The Maple Leafs outshot the Canadiens 33-17. […]

OTTAWA — Noah Ostlund scored the overtime winner for the Buffalo Sabres in a 3-2 pre-season win over the Ottawa Senators on Thursday night. Buffalo’s lineup had a combined total of just over 100 NHL games of experience as most of its regular roster is in Munich, Germany for the upcoming Global Series Challenge. Felix […]

OTTAWA — A new watchdog report says there are fundamental issues with the use of polygraphs for security screening by Canada’s cyberspy agency. It calls for the Communications Security Establishment and the federal government to urgently address them or stop using the tests for security screening altogether. The National Security and Intelligence Review Agency says […]

OTTAWA — Accusations of homophobia and partisan jabs took centre stage in the House of Commons on Thursday as MPs debated another Conservative motion aimed at toppling the government, after their first attempt failed. The fall sitting of Parliament has been off to a heated start and hostilities continued to run high Thursday, forcing House […]

TORONTO (AP) — Toronto Maple Leafs coach Craig Berube said he does not think Auston Matthews’ upper-body injury is too serious and expects the captain to be fine. Matthews returned to practice Thursday after getting a couple of days off the ice for what Berube called maintenance. Matthews was not scheduled to play in Toronto’s […]

TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index closed above 24,000 for the first time Thursday as strength in base metals and other sectors outweighed losses in energy, while U.S. markets also rose. The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 127.95 points at 24,033.83. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 260.36 points at 42,175.11. […]

TORONTO — The Toronto Raptors have signed guard Jahmi’us Ramsey, the team announced Thursday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Ramsey averaged 6.7 points, 3.1 rebounds, and 17.3 minutes in seven games with Toronto last season. He also spent time in the G League, averaging 20.5 points in 32 games split between the Oklahoma […]

TORONTO — A coalition of disability rights organizations has launched a Charter challenge against a part of Canada’s law on medical assistance in dying, calling it an “abandonment” of people with disabilities. The group announced Thursday that it had filed a notice of application to challenge what’s known as track two of the MAID law, […]

TORONTO — Standardized testing results released today show that fewer Ontario students in Grades 3 and 6 met the provincial standard in reading and writing than the previous year. The Education Quality and Accountability Office results from the 2023-24 school year show that results in math – a focal point of the Progressive Conservative government […]