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TOKYO — Prime Minister Mark Carney, on an ongoing mission to bring together the world’s middle powers, brought out his rusty Japanese skills as he met his counterpart and enjoyed a Canadian-inspired birthday cake in Tokyo.  Carney touched down in Tokyo on Friday afternoon, local time, where he was set to spend the next 24…

Brothers Derek and Darren Mori learned the missing items from their parents’ cremation niche is part of what police believe to be a large string of thefts targeting cemeteries across Southwestern Ontario last year.

A B.C. man has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in the 2021 killing of Naramata woman — a development that remained largely secret until a judge partially lifted a sweeping publication ban this week.

Like the Members of Parliament in Ottawa, the 105 members of Canada’s Senate are getting a pay raise on April 1. But before they receive a nearly $10,000 hike to their base salary of $184,800 , the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) is calling out a handful of the worst offenders and some staff members for…

Journalistic tradition dictates that the New Democratic Party be treated as an organization of consequence, with lengthy historical roots and some significant achievements. Lately it hasn’t been acting like it, though. Its standing in the House of Commons slipped to fourth place three elections ago and shows little sign of revival. Its seven paltry seats…

A fight for ownership of the trademark for an outlaw motorcycle club’s patch — a logo notorious from a biker war that killed more than 160 people — has been settled by federal bureaucrats at the Canadian Intellectual Property Office. In a strange clash of corporate rules meeting biker culture, the mother of a former…

Quebec is moving forward with plans to shield its poutine cheese curds with protected geographical status. The Conseil des Industriels Laitiers du Québec (CILQ), the province’s dairy industry association, is pushing for a “Protected Geographical Indication” (PGI), which would enable provincial producers to identify their cheese curds as protected with an official designation seal. To…

The University of Windsor says it has completed nearly 90 per cent of the anti-Black racism recommendations stemming from a special task force on campus, but some are pushing for more progress.

Road and school bus safety advocates say they’re saddened but not surprised following a rash of school bus-related collisions in southwestern Ontario since the year began.

International Monetary Fund (IMF) managing director Kristalina Georgieva said the war in the Middle East will test global economic resilience and warned that “new shocks in different shapes and sizes” will keep coming. Underscoring the IMF’s concern at the suffering and loss of life resulting from the Middle East crisis , Georgieva warned that a…