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Calls mount for pause on Canada's digital services tax targeting tech giants
OTTAWA - Ottawa is under pressure to pause digital services tax legislation that directs large tech companies to make a big retroactive payment by June 30. Canadian and U.S. business groups, organizat...
Jun 18, 2025 Minister of Finance and National Revenue François-Philippe Champagne speaks to reporters ahead of a cabinet meeting on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on Tuesday, June 10, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby
Few Canadians support Canada Post privatization, but open to sweeping changes: survey
A new survey finds less support among Canadians for the privatization of Canada Post, but many are open to large-scale changes amid labour strife between the Crown corporation and its union. Survey re...
Jun 18, 2025
Carney's contentious major projects bill clears committee
OTTAWA - Running roughshod over the environment. Spawning the next Idle No More movement. Picking economic winners and losers. Prime Minister Mark Carney's Building Canada Act is anything if not a mag...
Jun 18, 2025
Montreal bicycle rental company sets new records during public transit strike
MONTREAL - Montreal's main bicycle rental company says its users smashed records during the recent public transit strike, travelling the equivalent of more than 50 times around the Earth. BIXI Montrea...
Jun 18, 2025
Canadian population growth continued to slow with almost no increase in Q1: StatCan
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says population growth stalled in the first quarter. The agency says the Canadian population rose by 20,107 people from Jan. 1 to April 1 to 41,548,787, the smallest increas...
Jun 18, 2025
Environment minister says consumer rebates for EVs will return
OTTAWA - The federal government intends to bring back consumer rebates for electric vehicles but doesn't yet quite know what they'll look like, Environment Minister Julie Dabrusin said on Tuesday. The...
Jun 17, 2025
G7 members agree to increase public sector use of AI, collaborate on quantum
OTTAWA - G7 countries pledged Tuesday to increase adoption of artificial intelligence, including in the public sector and among smaller businesses, while also promising to promote investment in emergi...
Jun 17, 2025
Some N.S. municipalities who voted for pause on uranium get letters from premier
HALIFAX - After at least two Nova Scotia municipalities voted in favour of asking the provincial government to slow down on its uranium exploration plans, their offices received several-page-long lett...
Jun 17, 2025
Montreal invests $100K to lure research talent seeking to escape United States
MONTREAL - The City of Montreal is investing $100,000 to lure scientists and researchers who want to leave the United States. In a news release, Mayor Valrie Plante says the "current situation" in the...
Jun 17, 2025
Bank of Canada weighed June rate cut — but trade uncertainty kept it on hold
OTTAWA - New meeting records show the Bank of Canada's top decisionmakers were weighing an interest rate cut earlier this month but didn't feel like they knew enough about how the tariff dispute with ...
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