OTTAWA — India’s Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal says Prime Minister Mark Carney’s recent visit to his country paved the way for a complete overhaul of the Canada-India relationship.

Goyal is in Canada for meetings on trade and investment this week and met Monday morning with International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu.

Goyal said before the meeting the relationship between Canada and India will be very important in the coming years. He said both countries are keen to reach a free-trade agreement in 2026.

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OTTAWA — The Department of National Defence says it has confirmed that a previously unidentified grave in France for a Canadian First World War soldier belongs to Sgt. Norman McLennan.

The headstone at the Courcelette British Cemetery in northern France, which says only that the plot was for a sergeant of the “Great War Royal” Canadian regiment, will now be rededicated to McLennan in a ceremony.

McLennan enlisted with the Royal Canadian Regiment in Quebec in 1905 but conflicting data on his exact date of birth suggests he may have

If you take a drive down Kingston Road near Danforth Avenue in Scarborough, you’ll no doubt notice very large piles of discarded tires outside the many vehicle repair shops that line the thoroughfare.

Those piles are growing larger by the day.

“I’ve been in business for 25 years and the problem has never been this bad,” said John Rouvas who owns Optimum Auto Services, Ltd.

A big part of his business is replacing tires and when he purchases new ones for clients, he pays a fee

Like many immigrants, Mohsin Ali Wattoo had been busy living a work-focused life in Canada when a car accident changed everything.

“In 2010, I met with an accident, and a wheelchair became a part of me forever. Until then, I didn’t know there was a heart attached to a wheelchair mark that we see chalked in the parking lots,” Wattoo said.

“Nature had many other tasks reserved for me,” he reflected.

What followed was an athletic career that has

OTTAWA — The federal government is leasing 10 new firefighting planes and helicopters to help provinces and territories respond to wildfires this summer.

Emergency Management Minister Eleanor Olszewski says provincial and territorial wildfire agencies will be able to request the use of four air tankers, one spotter plane and five heavy lift helicopters to fight wildfires.

In a news release, the government says the new assets will boost national firefighting surge capacity by increasing provincial and territorial access to aircraft during periods of intense wildfire activity.

The release says it is the first time

TORONTO — Drake once said he “started from the bottom,” but this week he’s occupying the entire top floor of the Billboard charts.

The Toronto rapper has rewritten music history by becoming the first artist to claim the top three spots on Billboard’s top 200 album chart, the company announced Sunday.

His trilogy of albums — “Iceman,” “Habibti” and “Maid of Honour” — debuted at Nos. 1, 2 and 3, respectively, on the chart dated May 3

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney said Monday the Alberta referendum on separation is a “dangerous bluff” if anyone thinks its results could be used as leverage in future negotiations.

Carney said he saw those effects first-hand when he was the governor of the Bank of England after the Brexit vote. He warned that people in the United Kingdom are still trying to undo the damage caused by that decision a decade later.

“In these separation issues, it is often advanced that, ‘Vote for this and it’s