105.9 The Region

OTTAWA — On Monday Parliamentarians will return to the familiar stone walls of West Block in Ottawa to find the political landscape has shifted significantly. When they last gathered in the capital the Liberals knew their prospects were poor after languishing in the polls for more than a year, but they were secure in the […]

TORONTO — When Barbara Adhiya first learned that Terry Fox had run the length of a marathon a day during his journey across Canada, she was shocked. Like most Canadians, Adhiya had known about the icon’s 1980 mission to raise funds for cancer research through a 4,700-mile run from Newfoundland to British Columbia, but not […]

The Toronto Police Service has launched a homicide investigation into a Thursday morning stabbing in the city’s west end that killed one person and injured another. Officers responded to a See Ambulance call in the Lake Shore Boulevard and Islington Avenue area shortly after 6 a.m. They say there was an altercation between more than […]

TORONTO — Alejandro Kirk’s long single with the bases loaded provided the Toronto Blue Jays with a walk-off 4-3 win in the 11th inning of their series opener against the St. Louis Cardinals on Friday. With the Cardinals outfield in, Kirk drove a shot off the base of the left-field wall to give the Blue […]

TORONTO (AP) — Alejandro Kirk drove in the winning run with a bases-loaded single in the 11th inning and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the St. Louis Cardinals 4-3 on Friday night in the opener of a three-game series. After the Cardinals intentionally walked Vladimir Guerrero Jr. to begin the 11th, Leo Jiménez advanced both […]

A longtime Progressive Conservative Member of Provincial Parliament won’t be looking to retain her title. A post to social media from Lisa MacLeod announced she will not be seeking re-election as the MPP for Nepean. MacLeod has been a provincial elected official since 2006, when she was first elected to represent the Ottawa-area riding of […]

A community legal clinic in Kingston, Ont., is denouncing the mayor’s calls to clear an encampment and close a supervised consumption site in the city following a series of alleged assaults that left two people dead and one seriously injured. Kingston police said they were called to an encampment near a safe injection site on […]

TORONTO — Strength in the base metal and technology sectors helped Canada’s main stock index gain almost 100 points on Friday, while U.S. stock markets also climbed higher. The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 93.51 points at 23,568.65. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 297.01 points at 41,393.78. The S&P 500 […]

TORONTO — Hollywood superstars and awards buzz helped this year’s Toronto International Film Festival return to form after multiple years of industry turmoil, but simmering political tensions defined some of the best features. Here are five hidden gems discovered at this year’s Toronto film festival, which wraps Sunday: “No Other Land” Basel Adra and his […]

TORONTO — An arbitrator has awarded Ontario’s doctors a nearly 10-per-cent compensation increase for the first year of their new Physician Services Agreement. The province is in the midst of negotiations with the Ontario Medical Association for the four-year agreement, but an arbitrator was tasked with setting increases for the first year, while the two […]