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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
Carney heads to Europe on Sunday for NATO, Canada-EU summits
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney heads to Europe on the weekend to attend summits on NATO and Canada-EU relations. The Prime Minister's Office confirmed Carney's travel plans today, after he wrappe...
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
Hundreds of groups call on Ottawa to scrap border bill over privacy, rights concerns
OTTAWA - More than 300 civil society organizations are calling on the Liberal government to withdraw its new border bill, saying the legislation threatens liberties, refugee and migrant rights and the...
Jun 18, 2025 Asylum seekers try to cross the Canada-U.S. border at Roxham Road from New York state into Quebec on Friday March 24, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz
Ghazala Hashmi wins Democratic nomination for Virginia lieutenant governor
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The candidates for Virginia's lieutenant governor are set to make history after Sen. Ghazala Hashmi won the Democratic nomination for the position on Wednesday. Hashmi is the firs...
Jun 18, 2025
Carney to return to Ottawa after fruitful summit with G7 leaders in Alberta
KANANASKIS - Prime Minister Mark Carney is heading home to Ottawa today after hosting the G7 summit in Kananaskis, Alta. He had been meeting with world leaders since Sunday to discuss topics such as U...
Jun 18, 2025 Prime Minister Mark Carney is seen during the closing news conference at the G7 Summit in Kananaskis, Alta., Tuesday, June 17, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
LGBTQ refugee group says number of requests for help has increased
OTTAWA - An organization that helps LGBTQ+ people file refugee claims says it has seen a spike in pleas for assistance from around the world since 2020. Devon Matthews, program head with Rainbow Railr...
Jun 18, 2025
G7 leaders agree to 'charter' on wildfires, pledging global co-operation
BANFF - Leaders of the G7 have agreed to co-operate on efforts to manage the impacts of devastating wildfires, which are surging for another summer across Canada. The leaders are calling it the Kanana...
Jun 17, 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
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