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Canada cancelled its digital services tax. What was it and why did the U.S. hate it?
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 day before the first payment was due.
Jun 30, 2025 2:00 AM
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Retiring government rep Marc Gold calls Senate 'greatest privilege' of his life
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 retirement age of 75 on Monday.
Jun 30, 2025 2:00 AM
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Crypto industry pushing Canada to follow U.S. lead in embracing stablecoins
TORONTO — As the U.S. government takes big steps to usher cryptocurrency into mainstream finance, one of the world’s biggest crypto exchanges is urging the Canadian government to match and exceed those efforts, even as concerns mount.
Jun 30, 2025 2:00 AM
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Here's how provinces are trying to remove Canada's internal trade barriers
Efforts to boost interprovincial trade have kicked into high gear amid the U.S.-Canada tariff war.
Jun 30, 2025 2:00 AM
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Canada rescinds digital services tax to resume negotiations with U.S.
OTTAWA — Canada is rescinding its digital services tax and will resume trade negotiations with the United States, Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne said in a statement issued late Sunday night.
Jun 29, 2025 10:58 PM
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Debate is underway in the Senate on Trump's big bill, but overnight voting is delayed
WASHINGTON (AP) — Debate has been underway in the Senate late into the night, with Republicans wrestling President Donald Trump's big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts over mounting Democratic opposition — and even some brake-pumping over the budg
Jun 29, 2025 10:55 PM
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Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina won't run in 2026 after opposing Trump's bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen.
Jun 29, 2025 7:21 PM
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NYC, San Francisco and other US cities cap LGBTQ+ Pride month with a mix of party and protest
NEW YORK (AP) — The monthlong celebration of LGBTQ+ Pride reached its rainbow-laden crescendo Sunday as huge crowds took part in jubilant, daylong street parties from New York to San Francisco.
Jun 29, 2025 3:50 PM
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Star witness against Kilmar Abrego Garcia won't be deported, court records show
WASHINGTON (AP) — Court records show that the Trump administration has agreed to spare from deportation a key witness in the federal prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia in exchange for his cooperation in the case.
Jun 29, 2025 1:39 PM
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Republican Senate tax bill would add $3.3 trillion to the US debt load, CBO says
WASHINGTON (AP) — The changes made to President Donald Trump's big tax bill in the Senate would pile trillions onto the nation's debt load while resulting in even steeper losses in health care coverage, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office sai
Jun 29, 2025 12:31 PM
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