105.9 The Region

TORONTO — Ontario Education Minister Todd Smith has announced he is resigning his seat and from cabinet effective immediately to accept a job in the private sector. More coming. The Canadian Press

TORONTO — Toronto police say a man who fled to El Salvador roughly two decades ago has been returned to Canada to face a second-degree murder charge in the death of his wife. Police say they found 26-year-old Rosaura Tolentino Ramos dead inside a home in the city’s northwest on Aug. 31, 2004. They say […]

OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says manufacturing sales fell 2.1 per cent to $69.6 billion in June, as sales for the transportation equipment, chemical product and primary metal subsectors moved lower. Overall, the agency says sales were down in 17 of the 21 subsectors. Sales in the transportation equipment subsector dropped 2.9 per cent to $11.0 […]

OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says manufacturing sales fell 2.1 per cent to $69.6 billion in June, as sales for the transportation equipment, chemical product and primary metal subsectors moved lower. Overall, the agency says sales were down in 17 of the 21 subsectors. Sales in the transportation equipment subsector dropped 2.9 per cent to $11.0 […]

TORONTO — If you’ve noticed kids’ conversations sound a little different this back-to-school season, you’re not alone. Words like “skibidi,” “sigma” and “gyatt” now pepper tweens’ sentences, and “Ohio” is more than just a U.S. state: it’s a state of being. The issue came up at 11-year-old Dashiell Chinn’s summer camp, where he said his […]

TORONTO — If you’ve noticed kids’ conversations sound a little different this back-to-school season, you’re not alone. Words like “skibidi,” “sigma” and “gyatt” now pepper tweens’ sentences, and “Ohio” is more than just a U.S. state: it’s a state of being. The issue came up at 11-year-old Dashiell Chinn’s summer camp, where he said his […]

OTTAWA — Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the annual pace of housing starts in July climbed 16 per cent compared with June. The national housing agency says the seasonally adjusted annual rate of housing starts in Canada for July was 279,509 units, up from 241,643 in June. The increase came as the annual pace […]

OTTAWA — The Canada Border Services Agency plans to implement an app that uses facial recognition technology to keep track of people who have been ordered to be deported from the country. The mobile reporting app would use biometrics to confirm a person’s identity and record their location data when they use the app to […]

INNISFIL, Ont. — Ontario’s police watchdog is investigating after two 19-year-olds were shot by officers in Innisfil, with one of them dying. The Special Investigations Unit says officers were called to a residence Thursday afternoon about a family dispute. The agency says when officers arrived, there was an interaction involving the two men outside. It […]

A coroner’s inquest jury looking into the death of an Ontario First Nations woman has begun deliberating its findings and recommendations after hearing closing arguments in the case Thursday. Ruthann Quequish died on April 1, 2017 from ketoacidosis, a complication associated with diabetes, at her home in Kingfisher Lake First Nation after going to the […]