105.9 The Region

TORONTO — Police say a 27-year-old man is facing a murder charge after an early morning shooting in downtown Toronto on Tuesday. Police say officers were called to the area of King Street West and Spadina Avenue around 4:45 a.m., where they allege a group of males approached a man and started shooting. They say […]

TORONTO — Ontario grocers and The Beer Store have reached an agreement-in-principle on alcohol recycling that will allow the retailers to avoid collecting empties at their stores and gives a renewed role to the brewers, The Canadian Press has learned. The deal averts a potential death knell for the Ontario Deposit Return Program, as some […]

TORONTO — Young climate activists behind a landmark challenge of Ontario’s climate plan say the province’s 11th hour attempt to escape accountability by repealing its own emissions targets has only emboldened their fight. They were set to argue next week that the government’s weakened 2018 emissions targets were without scientific basis, and so out of […]

HAMILTON — Police in Hamilton are asking for the public’s help to identify two suspects they allege assaulted a transgender person last month. Police say a physical altercation took place at around 2:30 a.m. on Oct. 25 as the victim was leaving a bar on Hess Street South with their friends. Police say video shows […]

Ontario’s energy minister is announcing that a plan to refurbish four reactors at the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station to get nearly four decades more service out of them will cost $26.8 billion. The province and Ontario Power Generation have been intending for years to do the long-term refurbishment and today Minister Stephen Lecce announced that […]

NEW YORK (AP) — MacKenzie Scott, one of the world’s wealthiest women and most influential philanthropists, is now known for her “no strings attached” surprise grantmaking. But, as a Princeton University sophomore, she learned what it was like to be on the receiving end of generosity. Facing the prospect of dropping out if she couldn’t […]

Canadians Jonathan David and Promise David both scored in Champions League play Tuesday, earning wins for Italy’s Juventus and Belgium’s Union Saint-Gilloise, respectively. Jonathan David’s goal lifted Juventus to a 3-2 victory over Norway’s Bodo/Glimt, which had pulled even on Sondre Brunstad Fet’s 89th-minute penalty. The Canadian was Johnny-on-the-spot, knocking the ball home after the […]

OTTAWA — The Manitoba Métis Federation is celebrating an Ontario Superior Court decision that found its president did not breach his fiduciary duties while serving as finance minister for the Métis National Council. In a decision on the lawsuit released Tuesday, Justice Loretta P. Merritt wrote that a series of transactions made under the leadership […]

TORONTO — Dangerous driving penalties are set to soon be strengthened in Ontario, as the government has tabled a bill in honour of a father of three who was killed by an alleged dangerous driver. Andrew Cristillo, 35, was killed Aug. 3 in a head-on crash in Whitchurch-Stouffville that also left his wife and their […]

The RCMP says a youth in the Greater Toronto Area has been arrested and charged in a terrorism investigation. The RCMP says officers arrested the young person on Nov. 4, and they were charged with participating in the activities of a terrorist group by editing and publicly posting ISIS propaganda videos. They say the youth […]