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Companies that paid the now-defunct digital services tax will have to wait for Ottawa to pass new legislation before they can get their refund, the Canada Revenue Agency has confirmed. Prime Minister Mark Carney announced late Sunday that Canada was dropping the tax on global tech giants in a bid to restart trade negotiations with […]
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MPs have voted in favour of legislation to proscribe group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation, passing by 385 votes to 26. The order, which amends the Terrorism Act 2000, is now expected to be signed by Home Secretary Yvette Cooper and come into effect later this week. Once in effect, supporting Palestine Action will
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We once had a shared policy thesis about public education. What happened? A glance at the president’s recent budget proposal, now coined “One Big Beautifull Bill” is the clearest indicator that we’ve lost our shared thesis when it comes to public education — a $12.4 billion cut to public education, with the largest share of
How we lost our way on education and how Congress can help us get back Read More »
Two Independent MLAs expelled from the UCP are bidding to resurrect the old party brand of Peter Lougheed and Ralph Klein. Peter Guthrie and Scott Sinclair are petitioning to re-register the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta — the party that governed Alberta from 1971 to 2015, before it merged with the Wildrose Party to form
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Only a quarter of British adults think Sir Keir Starmer will win the next general election, as the party’s climbdown over welfare cuts affects its standing with the public. A fresh poll by Ipsos, shared with Sky News, also found 63% do not feel confident the government is running the country competently, similar to levels
Prime Minister Mark Carney is meeting with the heads of the Canadian auto industry as concerns mount over the ongoing impact of tariffs imposed by the U.S. Story continues below advertisement The industry has been facing a 25 per cent tariff from the U.S. on the sector itself, as well as a 50 per cent
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Elon Musk’s threat this week to form his own political party isn’t the first time he has flirted with the idea. In 2022, just before he became heavily involved in Republican politics, Musk mused about striking out on his own politically in a series of social media posts saying he didn’t feel at home in
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Downing Street has said Chancellor Rachel Reeves is “going nowhere” after Sir Keir Starmer was asked to guarantee that she would keep her job, at Prime Minister’s Questions. Reeves was visibly upset from the beginning of the session as Kemi Badenoch laid into the PM’s latest U-turn on welfare reform – which potentially blows a
Rachel Reeves ‘going nowhere’, says No 10 after Commons tears Read More »
The U.S. built more than 1,000 hydroelectric dams over the last century. These dams are as different in size, shape and function as the rivers where they were built. Their social and environmental costs and benefits also differ. Tribes, states, and hundreds of thousands of Americans have recently pushed to remove four federally-owned dams on
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By anyone’s measure, $150 billion a year is an eye-watering amount of money to spend on anything — let alone defence. While it pales in comparison to the inflation-adjusted appropriations of the Second World War, it is potentially, for this generation, the very definition of beating ploughshares into swords. Or is it? Following all of
Is Canada beating ploughshares into swords with its NATO 5% pledge? Not likely Read More »