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TORONTO — Lilly Singh says she’s embracing a new, elevated identity. The YouTuber turned TV personality is ready to tack “PhD” onto her signature after receiving an honorary doctor of laws degree on Wednesday from her alma mater, York University. “I do sense this will become my entire personality from this moment on,” Singh said […]

WINNIPEG — Former television news reporter Richard Madan is collecting a salary of $387,000 a year as Manitoba’s trade representative in Washington, D.C., the premier’s office has revealed. The salary is comparable to money spent by other provinces on trade offices or third-party lobby firms, the premier’s office said Thursday. But the Opposition Progressive Conservatives […]

The family of a baby boy who was killed along with his grandparents in a wrong-way police chase on Highway 401 are suing the Durham Region police officers involved, the police board and the estate of the driver who struck them. A statement of claim filed in court by the boy’s parents and two other […]

WINNIPEG — Manitoba’s trade representative in Washington, D.C. is making $387,000 a year. Premier Wab Kinew’s office has revealed the salary for Richard Madan, a former television reporter hired in the spring to head up a trade office inside the Canadian Embassy. The premier’s office says Madan’s pay is similar to money spent by some […]

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney says he will brief Ontario Premier Doug Ford today on Canada’s negotiations with the U.S. on reaching sectoral trade deals. Carney says Ottawa is engaged in “deep” and “intensive” negotiations with the U.S. on several sectors, including energy, aluminum and steel, and he’ll discuss with the premier tariffs affecting […]

TORONTO — Ontario Labour Minister David Piccini is set to introduce legislation next week intended to make it easier for health professionals from other provinces to work in Ontario. The government has already allowed doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists and medical lab technologists from other provinces and territories to work “as of right” in Ontario while […]

SEATTLE — Toronto manager John Schneider said he wanted more uppercuts than jabs from his team in Game 3 of the American League Championship Series. A series of haymakers did the trick. Toronto hit five home runs in a resounding 13-4 win over the Seattle Mariners on Wednesday night to get on the board in […]

An American man has been sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty to cyber extortion in the mass data breach of a student information system used across Canada. Court documents show Matthew D. Lane was sentenced in a Massachusetts court Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to charges relating to the cyber extortion of […]

TORONTO — Fears that Canada’s automotive industry could lose out to the U.S. are becoming more of a reality after Stellantis said it was moving planned production of its Jeep Compass from Brampton, Ont., to Illinois. The decision, announced as part of a broader US$13-billion investment in the U.S., comes after U.S. President Donald Trump […]

Workers at Stellantis’ Brampton, Ont. assembly plant are worried for the future of their jobs after the automaker said it would shift Jeep production slated for the plant to the United States. The news came as part of a US$13-billion investment announced Tuesday by Stellantis to expand U.S. production by 50 per cent over the […]