Category Archives: National News – CP

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Canada rescinds digital services tax Canada is rescinding its digital services tax and will resume trade negot...

OTTAWA - Tech giants such as Amazon and Google will not have to shell out close to $2 billion as expected today, as Canada moved to cancel the controversial digital services tax on Sunday, just one da...

MONTREAL - For 100 years, H. Fisher & Fils was a fixture of Montreal's garment industry, serving up orders of buttons, bolts of cloth and sewing supplies from its storefront on St-Laurent Boulevar...

OTTAWA - Sen. Marc Gold's career as the government's representative in the Senate is ending, closing a chapter he called "the greatest privilege" of his life. Gold reaches the Senate's mandatory retir...

OTTAWA - Parliamentarians likely will get a chance later this year to debate whether to adopt a livestock brand as an official national symbol. A bill to create the brand was introduced earlier in Jun...

Efforts to boost interprovincial trade have kicked into high gear amid the U.S.-Canada tariff war. Here's a look at some trade agreements, legislation and proposals among provinces and territories tha...

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Franois-Philippe Champagne said on Sunday that Canada is rescinding the digital services tax and will resume trade negotiations with the United States. https://twitter.com/FP...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina said Sunday he will not seek reelection next year, an abrupt announcement that came one day after he staked out his opposition to Presid...

MONTREAL - A judge has authorized a class action lawsuit over emails Tim Hortons sent out in error to participants in its popular Roll Up to Win promotion -- but only for Quebec residents. Montreal-ba...

TORONTO - The clouds menacing next year's Pride celebrations in Toronto were nowhere in sight for this year's festivities on Sunday as tens of thousands of revellers filled city streets with rainbow h...