105.9 The Region

TORONTO — Widespread gains helped push Canada’s main stock index higher Friday, while U.S. stock markets also rose after an encouraging U.S. inflation report. The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 206.78 points at 22,814.81, led by metals, health care, and technology stocks. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 654.27 points at […]

OTTAWA — The Crown made a mockery of its treaty promise to the Anishinaabe in Ontario by freezing annual payments to First Nations for 150 years, and it now must make things right, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled. The top court issued a unanimous decision Friday in the case of the Robinson Treaties, […]

TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays recalled pitcher Yerry Rodriguez from Triple-A Buffalo and activated him ahead of Friday’s game against the Texas Rangers. In a corresponding move, Toronto optioned pitcher Ryan Burr to Buffalo. Rodriguez, a 26-year-old righthanded pitcher from the Dominican Republic, was traded to the Blue Jays from the Rangers in June […]

TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays recalled pitcher Yerry Rodriguez from Triple-A Buffalo and activated him ahead of Friday’s game against the Texas Rangers. In a corresponding move, Toronto optioned pitcher Ryan Burr to Buffalo. Rodriguez, a 26-year-old righthanded pitcher from the Dominican Republic, was traded to the Blue Jays from the Rangers in June […]

PERTH, ONTARIO, CANADA — A team of researchers from Western University is heading to an area near Ottawa to document the damage caused by a tornado that touched down there earlier this week. David Sills, director of the Northern Tornadoes Project, says a storm survey team will visit the area of Perth, Ont., southwest of […]

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is calling for Israel to “respond substantively” to the top United Nations court’s recent advisory opinion that Israel’s presence in the occupied Palestinian territories is unlawful and that it should end. The court’s non-binding opinion released last week was an unprecedented, sweeping condemnation of Israel’s rule over the lands […]

TORONTO — Ontario is doubling the number of children eligible for vaccination against a virus that can make young kids very sick. The province says infants and high-risk children up to two years old will have access to new immunization to protect against respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV. Pregnant women will also be able to […]

TORONTO — Gains in the industrial and financial sectors led Canada’s main stock index higher in late-morning trading on Friday, while U.S. stock markets also rose. The S&P/TSX composite index was up 126.79 points at 22,734.82. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 593.17 points at 40,528.24. The S&P 500 index was […]

OTTAWA — The federal government posted a $3.9 billion deficit in the first two months of the fiscal year. The result for the April-to-May period compared to a $1.5 billion surplus for the same stretch last year. Revenues increased $6.5 billion, or 8.9 per cent, largely due to higher tax revenues. The Finance Department says […]

OTTAWA — Canada’s top court is set to issue a decision this morning in a case about Crown payments under the Robinson Huron Treaties that have been frozen for almost 150 years. The treaties were signed in 1850, ceding a large swath of land to the Crown in return for annual payments to the Anishinaabe […]