105.9 The Region

TORONTO — Argonauts coach Ryan Dinwiddie says recently reinstated quarterback Chad Kelly will start Thursday when Toronto hosts the Saskatchewan Roughriders. The league announced Sunday that Kelly is cleared to return to the league, with conditions, after serving a suspension for violating its gender-based violence policy. The CFL suspended Kelly in May for its two […]

TORONTO — Scattered throughout Kenzie Allen’s debut poetry collection are familiar names: Indiana Jones, Pocahontas, Yoko Ono. “The pop culture figures are not just fun, weird foils for me, which they are, but they’re also a shared reference point,” she said. For a long time, she said, she felt like she had to include those […]

OTTAWA — The Canada Border Services Agency says a partial systems outage is impacting airports and that it is working to fix the issue. More coming. The Canadian Press

TORONTO — The Canadian men’s soccer team will play a friendly match against Panama at Toronto’s BMO Field during the upcoming FIFA window. Canada Soccer announced the Oct. 15 match in a release on Tuesday. The Canadians are coming off an impressive fourth-place finish at the 2024 Copa America in which they were narrowly defeated […]

TORONTO — A new study finds most Canadians have spotted deepfakes online and almost a quarter encounter them weekly. The research from Toronto Metropolitan University public policy organization The Dais reveals 60 per cent of people in the country have seen deepfakes. Deepfakes are digitally-manipulated images or videos depicting scenes that have not happened. The […]

OTTAWA — Senior public servants have been called to a House of Commons committee to explain the government’s decision to buy a $9-million condo for the consul general in New York. Conservative MP Michael Barrett called the residence “excessive” and “opulent,” and questioned why the foreign affairs minister was not made aware of the purchase. […]

TORONTO — The chief executive of SkipTheDishes says hundreds of Canadian employees are being laid off by the food delivery service and its parent company. Paul Burns says 100 Canada-based workers will depart SkipTheDishes. Some 700 staff also in Canada who work for its owner Just Eat Takeaway.com will also lose their jobs. Burns announced […]

OTTAWA — Canada’s annual inflation rate was 2.5 per cent in July, Statistics Canada says. Here’s what happened in the provinces (previous month in brackets): — Newfoundland and Labrador: 2.1 per cent (2.3) — Prince Edward Island: 2.0 per cent (3.4) — Nova Scotia: 2.3 per cent (3.5) — New Brunswick: 2.9 per cent (2.8) […]

OTTAWA — Canada’s annual inflation rate was 2.5 per cent in July, Statistics Canada says. The agency also released rates for major cities, but cautioned that figures may have fluctuated widely because they are based on small statistical samples (previous month in brackets): — St. John’s, N.L.: 2.3 per cent (2.8) — Charlottetown-Summerside: 2.3 per […]

TORONTO — Nearly 70 per cent of Canadian small businesses say they’ve experienced disruptions in some form, including taking a financial hit, from construction projects within the last five years, a new report from the Canadian Federation of Independent Business says. The most frequent disruptions that local construction causes are heavy traffic in the area, […]