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Canada’s planned purchase of 88 F-35 stealth fighters is in jeopardy following a damning report from Auditor General Karen Hogan that revealed the program’s cost has ballooned by nearly 50% to C$27.7 billion.

Happy Dominion Day! Or, if you will, Canada Day, to all our readers, on which we celebrate the official founding of ‘Canada’ as a (mostly) independent part of the British Commonwealth. Canada, as readers may know from what once passed as Canadian history in high schools (as that still taught?), that Canada as a ‘country’ officially began with the signing into effect of the British-North America Act of 1867, with the ‘province of Lower and Upper Canada’ (later known as Ontario and Quebec), Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Although we gained further sovereignty, of a sort, with Pierre Trudeau’s 1982...

Last night, Canada rescinded its digital services tax, a 3% levy on all goods and services produced by both domestic and foreign tech companies, like Amazon and Google, following threats from President Donald Trump that the United States would “terminate ALL discussions on Trade with Canada,” according to CNBC. With the U.S.' northern neighbor at bay, for now, Americans should turn their attention to the south, where Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum continues to criticize proposed remittance taxes while defending illegal immigration and even weighing in on U.S. civil unrest. Why the hostility?

VIDEOThe first Mark Carney you see in this video is the Mark Carney that Liberals in Canada THOUGHT they would be getting. A tough talking Mark Carney who is not at all shy about talking Smack about Donald Trump. Of course that Mark Carney turned out to be a complete illusion and can only be seen thanks to the technological miracle of AI. Unfortunately for them, the second Mark Carney you see is the REAL Mark Carney who immediately caved on implementing a digital services tax when Big Daddy Trump demanded that he do so.Yes, the AI Mark Carney is...

Had Canada not halted a digital services tax enacted in 2024 that applies retroactively to 2022, US tech giants would have needed to pay Canada approximately $3 billion upfront on Monday, on top of a 3% levy on all revenue earned from digital services linked to Canadian users going forward. The Computer & Communications Industry Association estimated that Canada's tax measure would lead to annual losses of between $900 million and $2.3 billion for US firms and could result in up to 3,000 job losses in the country. In a separate estimate by Canada's Parliamentary Budget Officer in 2023, the...

Less than 48 hours before the country was set to come together and celebrate its sovereignty in the face of ongoing annexation threats from the White House, the federal government dropped a bombshell. Ottawa announced on Sunday evening it was rescinding the digital services tax (DST) — a levy used as an excuse by U.S. President Donald Trump last Friday to halt trade talks with Canada. He described it as “egregious,” adding “economically we have such power over Canada.” Trump also called it a “blatant attack,” before eventually regressing to his usual threats of raising tariffs and making Canada the...

June 28 (Reuters) - The United States and the Group of Seven nations have agreed to support a proposal that would exempt U.S. companies from some components of an existing global agreement, the G7 said in a statement on Saturday.The group has created a "side-by-side" system in response to the U.S. administration agreeing to scrap the Section 899 retaliatory tax proposal from President Donald Trump's tax and spending bill, it said in a statement from Canada, the head of the rolling G7 presidency.The G7 said the plan recognizes existing U.S. minimum tax laws and aims to bring more stability to...

VIDEOELBOWS UP!!! Yeah, that was Mark Carney's campaign rallying cry during his campaign for Prime Minister of Canada in reaction to Donald Trump. However, the brutal reality is that Carney embarrassed Canada by going "ELBOWS DOWN" when he backed off from a digital services tax when Big Daddy Trump threatened to break off trade talks if it was not rescinded. How long will it be before Canadians, including liberals who were suckered by this globalist fraud, demand his resignation for bringing upon them national humiliation?

Canada rescinds tax hitting US tech firms with eye on Trump trade deal

Canada announced Sunday night it was suspending a tax on U.S. technology firms that had caused President Trump to suspend trade negotiations between the two nations, handing a major victory to the American president. The Canadian government said it was suspending enforcement of the tax that was due to be collected starting Monday, saying the action was taken “in anticipation of a mutually beneficial comprehensive trade arrangement with the United States.” Prime Minister Mark Carney informed the Trump administration of the decision, and the two sides plan to resume trade talks on or about July 21. Trump had called the...

Canada has dramatically hiked duties on American steel imports after Donald Trump shut down trade talks. The country imposed an import quota late Friday and if it is exceeded, certain US metal will face a new 50 percent surcharge. Canada's Finance Minister, François-Philippe Champagne, said the government was acting to protect domestic industry from 'unjust US tariffs,' NBC News reported. The response came hours after Trump posted on Truth Social about how Canada is a 'very difficult country to trade with.' His reason for suspending trade negotiations came down to a tax Canada is set to impose on major tech...

Canadian jobs are now on the line over a foolish move to bring in a Digital Services Tax that is angering all sides in the United States. ... Mark Carney has decided to put Canadian auto jobs, manufacturing jobs, and the whole steel and aluminum industry at risk over a yet-to-be implement tax. It’s a foolish move for the Liberals from both an economic point of view and from a negotiation standpoint. ... On Friday, Donald Trump announced that trade talks with Canada, the ones to try and ease the tariffs, were off. The reason, Carney’s insistence on pushing ahead...

OTTAWA – Canada’s insistence on taxing American tech companies for Canadian-sourced revenue has prompted the U.S. to walk away from ongoing trade negotiations. In a social media post on Friday, U.S. President Donald Trump announced an immediate suspension of trade and tariff talks with Canada due to the Digital Services Tax (DST) – describing it as “egregious” and a “direct and blatant attack” on the U.S. “Based on this egregious tax, we are hereby terminating all discussions on trade with Canada, effective immediately,” Trump wrote on TruthSocial. “We will let Canada know the tariff that they will be paying to...

"They have to proclaim Israel...their faith and loyalty in Israel...Wait a minute what about our own country..."...Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene... In Israel late tonight Jewish settlers on a rampage in a Palestinian... Russian air defenses taking down... The US Senate turning down a resolution to prevent future military action... In the US Senate this weekend a vote on the massive federal spending plan... At the White House a peace agreement signed ending the conflict...mineral rich eastern region of Congo... US President Donald Trump expressing hope... In Budapest, Hungary preparations for the Pride March tomorrow in spite of a ban... President...

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump We have just been informed that Canada, a very difficult Country to TRADE with, including the fact that they have charged our Farmers as much as 400% Tariffs, for years, on Dairy Products, has just announced that they are putting a Digital Services Tax on our American Technology Companies, which is a direct and blatant attack on our Country. They are obviously copying the European Union, which has done the same thing, and is currently under discussion with us, also. Based on this egregious Tax, we are hereby terminating ALL discussions on Trade with Canada, effective...

A family is fighting to get their daughter with Down syndrome the health care she needs, as the Canadian health care system pressures them to end her life. Key Takeaways: * Doctors have suggested Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID); in response, Veya’s mother is now trying to obtain the necessary medical records to take Veya to Chicago in the United States for lifesaving health care. * Veya has been denied a living donor liver transplant despite all of her care teams believing she is a good candidate; her family has been given little reasoning — and flimsy reasoning, at that...

Experts still trying to figure out cause of Saturday's rapid fluctuation in water levelsAlan Auld of Shuniah, Ont., said he stepped out to look at Lake Superior on Saturday and was among people who saw the waters receding — something he compared to the draining of a bathtub. "At first we joked to everyone saying, 'Who pulled the plug?'" said Auld. "To see Lake Superior, the largest freshwater lake in the world, can do something like that, that's quite powerful. So we were in awe." On the east border of Thunder Bay, Shuniah is a municipal township along Lake Superior's...

So the City of Vancouver, Canada, just got super woke and changed the name of a street that was previously called "Trutch St," to... Well, just watch the video, because I can't do this. VIDEO AT LINK........... Šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmsəm Street. Apparently, it's pronounced "sh-MUS-quee-um-AW-sum," which in English translates to "Musqueamview," after the "Musqueam" people. A Musqueam elder celebrated their little "decolonization win," saying: It's a great feeling to actually see the name being changed, regardless of the political issue, just to see our language out in the public eye where people are living, it's a really, really heartlifting feeling. Our youth...

A Canadian Indigenous leader who greeted world heads of state arriving for the Group of Seven summit says he was “filled with rage” and considered leaving before Donald Trump arrived — saying the U.S. president has “caused much pain and suffering in the world.” Instead, Steven Crowchild prayed, consulted with his peoples’ leaders and ultimately opted to stay on the tarmac for a long conversation with Trump that he hopes will call more attention to promoting peace, protecting clean water and other issues key to Canada’s First Nation peoples. “It was really intense, to say the least,” Crowchild told The...

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says four “thugs” wearing masks tried to steal a vehicle from his Etobicoke home overnight, with police confirming the suspects have been arrested. Ford initially said his Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) detail thwarted the attempt at around 12:30 a.m. on Tuesday. However, a spokesperson with the Toronto Police Service (TPS) told CityNews that their officers were involved and not the OPP. The TPS said its officers responded to the Lawrence Avenue West and Royal York Road area in Etobicoke and saw the suspects wearing masks in a vehicle approaching a driveway. “Officers initiated a vehicle stop...