Two of Japan’s largest 24-hour convenience store chains are to ban sales of pornographic magazines ahead of the Rugby World Cup later this year and the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo due to concern that the ready availability of adult publications will give visitors a bad image of the nation. Seven-Eleven Japan Co. and Lawson…
TORONTO — Scotiabank has joined its Big Five banking peers in raising its benchmark fixed-rate mortgage rate. Canada’s third-biggest lender raised the posted rate for a five-year fixed-rate mortgage from 5.14 per cent to 5.34 per cent, effective Tuesday, while also increasing the posted rates for other terms. Late last month, TD Bank was the…
Remember The Last Remnant? Square Enix’s role-playing game will soon be discontinued on PC nearly a decade after it came out. In Europe, The Last Remnant will be delisted at 5pm UK time on 4th September, which means you have just over a week to grab it from Steam before it’s scrubbed forever. Of course,…
Click:6m street light pole OTTAWA — The Bank of Canada is maintaining its trend-setting interest rate as its careful assessment of the timing of future hikes continues amid a backdrop of moderating growth. The central bank, which kept its rate at 1.25 per cent Wednesday, said slower first-quarter growth of about 1.3 per cent was…
The fugitive who killed his date in a speedboat crash will remain in a Georgian jail for at least three months after a court heard he planned to flee to Thailand. Jack Shepherd, 31, appeared before a judge in Tbilisi to argue that he could not be extradited back to the UK because he had…
Being part of an ice hockey team in Africa poses some challenges, as one can probably imagine. Outdoor rinks are out of the picture, thanks to the weather. Indoor rinks are very hard to come by — there’s only one in all of East and Central Africa. Finding hockey skates and sticks is likely a…
The daughters of a Christian woman who spent eight years on death row for blasphemy have been taken to Canada for safety ahead of a court hearing next week that could see her finally freed. Asia Bibi is expected to join her daughters in Canada if Pakistan’s supreme court upholds its decision to quash her…
The announcement was expected. Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government announced Wednesday that the province’s sex-ed curriculum, updated in 2015, will be replaced. In the mean time, the old curriculum — a version from 1998 — will be taught to kids. Doug Ford campaigned on a promise to scrap the revamped curriculum, which included new classroom discussions…
Opponents of the federal government’s carbon pricing plan call it a “tax on everything,” but a new report suggests it could actually be a “rebate on everything” for consumers in provinces where the tax will be implemented. A soon-to-be-released study says people living in provinces that don’t set up their own carbon pricing plan could…
Asylum-seekers who seek to hide their identity or refuse to cooperate in obtaining new documents from their home could lose their right to remain in Germany under leaked details of a new draft law. The proposals also include changes to the law to allow migrants awaiting deportation to be held in regular prisons, according to…