Month: July 2025

ICYMI: With digital services tax rescinded, Donald Trump and Mark Carney agree to resume negotiations with a view to agreeing a deal by 21 July

Canada has rescinded its digital services tax in a bid to advance trade negotiations with the US, the country’s finance ministry has announced, days after Donald Trump ended trade talks amid a dispute over the levy.

Canadian prime minister Mark Carney and US president Donald Trump will resume trade negotiations with a view towards agreeing on a deal by 21 July, the ministry said in a statement late on Sunday. Continue reading…
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A Manitoba couples’ dream honeymoon ended on a terrifying note in Kelowna, B.C., as a man tried to break in to their ground-floor hotel room as they were falling asleep.
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Trump officials hail U-turn as Mark Carney says decision to rescind digital services tax means revival of trade talks

The United States has said that Canada’s prime minister Mark Carney “caved” to demands from the White House after his government abruptly scrapped their digital services tax on US technology companies, which was set to go into effect on Monday.

“It’s very simple. Prime minister Carney and Canada caved to president [Donald] Trump and the United States of America,” press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a daily briefing. Continue reading…
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