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Business Groups Urge Carney to Pause Digital Services Tax in Fear of Trump Backlash
T-Net
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Business Groups Urge Carney to Pause Digital Services Tax in Fear of Trump Backlash Vancouver, BC, June 16, 2025--A group of Canadian business associations are pressing Prime Minister Mark Carney to pause the implementation of "discriminatory"...
Canada's Brookfield sells 23.2% in Australia's Dalrymple Bay Infrastructure
AK&M
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AK&M 16 June 2025 15:20 The Canadian investment company Brookfield Infrastructure Partners has entered into an agreement with Barrenjoey Markets Pty Limited. the sale of a 23.2% stake in the Australian coal export company Dalrymple Bay...
Canadian Study Reveals Buyers Want Chinese EVs
AutoSpies
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Almost all electric vehicles (EVs) sold in Canada are made in North America, but that’s not necessarily what drivers want to buy. According to a new poll by Clean Energy Canada, a majority of Canadians it surveyed want an open market with...
Canada, UK to set up new UK-Canada Economic and Trade Working Group
Fibre 2 Fashion
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The United Kingdom and Canada will set up a new structured UK-Canada Economic and Trade Working Group to further deepen their trade ties, according to a joint statement issued after UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his Canadian counterpart Mark...
Canadian Airline WestJet Suffers Cyberattack, Halts App and Web Services
GBHackers
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June 16, 2025
Calgary-based WestJet Airlines, Canada’s second-largest carrier, is grappling with the fallout from a significant cybersecurity incident that has disrupted access to its mobile app and internal systems. The breach, first detected on June 13, has...
Canadian government steps in to get workers to vote on final offers from Canada Post
Parcel and Postal Technology International
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June 16, 2025
Canada’s minister of jobs and families, Patty Hajdu, has approved Canada Post’s request for the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) to vote on its final offers, announced on May 28, in a bid to bring 18 months of unsuccessful negotiations to...
Canada Stock Market Might Open Positive
RTTNews
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June 16, 2025
Canadian stock market might be slightly up at open on Monday. TSX had closed at 26504, down 111 points or 0.42 percent on Friday. The S&P/TSX 60 finished down 8.03 points or 0.51 percent at 1,578.96. Oil and Gas companies are gaining on Monday....
Canada watches crude prices climb as Israel–Iran tensions rise
Wealth Professional Canada
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The conflict marks the most serious assault on Iranian territory since its war with Iraq in the 1980s, with Israeli officials claiming the action was aimed at preventing an imminent nuclear threat. Iran’s counterattack has intensified fears of...
Canadians with caregiving responsibilities face higher mental health risks: report
Canadian HR Reporter
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June 16, 2025
Juggling caregiving, employment duties The situation is even more challenging for those who juggle caregiving and employment duties, according to MHRC’s survey of 4,674 adult Canadians conducted from May 1 to 15, 2025. Specifically, one-third (33...
Canada’s WestJet Probes Cybersecurity Incident Affecting App and Internal Systems
Insurance Journal
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June 16, 2025
Canada’s WestJet Airlines is investigating a cybersecurity incident that has disrupted access to its mobile app and some internal systems, affecting an undisclosed number of users, the airlines said in a statement on Friday. WestJet said...
Canadian Dundee Precious Metals acquires British Adriatic Metals for $1.25 billion
AK&M
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AK&M 16 June 2025 17:30 Canadian gold mining company Dundee Precious Metals Inc. (DPM) has signed an agreement to acquire British Adriatic Metals Plc for $1.25 billion. This is reported in a press release from Dundee. According to the terms of the...
Canada U-turns on supply management policy protection
FoodNavigator-USA
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A bill that could enshrine in law Canada’s protectionist agriculture policies is moving swiftly through parliament as talks on renewing the terms of the USMCA trade deal are set to ramp up in the coming months. Bill C-202 would amend Canada’s...
Markets Rebound From Friday Pullback; G-7 Kicks Off In Canada
Forbes
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An excavator removes debris from a residential building that was destroyed in an attack by Israel in ... More Tehran. (Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)Getty Images Key Takeaways Markets fell slightly amid war fears between Israel and Iran Oil...
Canada Goose prioritizes year-round relevance with second Haider Ackermann collection
Retail Dive
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Dive Brief: Focused on expanding its warm weather collections, Canada Goose released the second Snow Goose seasonal capsule collection under Paris-based creative director Haider Ackermann, who joined last year. The collection uses lightweight...
Canadian government push for ‘nation-building’ projects could transform aggregate industry
Rock to Road
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June 16, 2025
The federal and provincial infrastructure plans will require a massive increase aggregate material. A major challenge for the aggregate industry to meet that need is the lengthy and complex licensing process for new sites, which can take up to 10...
Canadian MSM Disses Dads on Father’s Day
Zero Hedge
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Via The Daily Bell Canadian MSM never lets up: on the one day of the year you might think “hey, it’s OK to be male”, Canada’s Toronto Star chimes in with a borderline misandrist screed by way of an “opinion” piece by Mark Bulgutch (a former CBC...
Canadian home sales rise, prices flat in May on a monthly basis
KFGO - North Dakota
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June 16, 2025
OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canadian home sales rose 3.6% in May from April and were down 4.3% on an annual basis, data from the Canadian Real Estate Association showed on Monday. The industry group’s Home Price Index was almost unchanged on the month and...
Canadian housing starts largely flat in May from April – CMHC
KFGO - North Dakota
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June 16, 2025
OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canadian housing starts were largely flat in May compared with April as a slight rise in groundbreaking in multiple unit urban homes was offset by a marginal drop in starts in single-family detached urban homes, national housing...
Canadian exporters increasingly shift from U.S. to overseas markets
The Globe and Mail
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June 16, 2025
Open this photo in gallery:Increased cargo volumes from Europe, Asia and Africa have put more pressure on the Port of Montreal and highlight the need for significant investments in marine-port infrastructure, Port of Montreal chief executive Julie...
Canadian households ended first quarter wealthier, despite headwinds
Wealth Professional Canada
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June 16, 2025
Financial assets increased by 0.9% or more than $97 billion (to $10.9 trillion) even as equity markets weakened – the S&P/TSX Composite Index grew by just 0.8% after a strong second half in 2024, while the S&P 500 Index was down 4.6% by the end of...