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Trump targets Canada’s digital service tax!
Photo credit: Toronto Star US President Donald Trump has unveiled a new trade policy, dubbed the “Fair and Reciprocal Plan,” aimed at countering what he calls unfair international trade practices. ic reports that part of the plan takes specific aim at Canada’s Digital Service Tax (DST), which the US claims unfairly targets American tech companies. According to the…
Zim migrant workers exploited in UK!
Photo credit: the Guardian Zimbabwean migrant workers in the UK are among those heavily exploited in the European nation, a new report has shown. News Day reports that in its new titled Caring at a Cost: A Survey of Migrant Care Staff Working in the UK, UK trade union UNISON found out that Zimbabwean migrants…
“Low-risk” migrants being sent to Guantanamo!
Although the Trump administration has, said it would transfer dangerous criminals and suspected gang members to Guantanamo Bay, it is also sending nonviolent, “low risk” migrant detainees without criminal records there, according to two US officials and internal government documents. CBS News reports that President Trump had said his administration would send the “worst” migrants and…
Canada’s premiers meet with Trump’s advisers!
All 13 provincial and territorial leaders of Canada were in America on Wednesday to warn US lawmakers about the potential fallout of President Trump’s proposed tariffs on Canadian imports. Toronto Star reports that Canada has taken its concern about US President Donald Trump’s tariffs to the belly of the beast. Federal, provincial, and territorial officials were…
“Safely unsafe”
Homeless refugees who face being forced to leave a camp of tents in a city centre have told of enduring freezing temperatures for months after escaping war-torn countries. BBC reports that many of the group mainly young men have been staying in the tents in St Peter’s Square in Manchester after successfully applying for asylum…
Trudeau says Canada will respond to Trump’s steel, aluminium tariffs…
Photo credit: Calgary Herald Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said US President Donald Trump’s new 25 per cent tariffs on steel and aluminium imports, including from Canada., are “entirely unjustified,” and “unacceptable.” CTV News reports that while speaking to reporters in Paris, Trudeau said that the federal government will be working with the US administration…
Snowstorm may hit Toronto on Wednesday!
Photo credit: CBC Toronto could see one of the biggest snowstorms of the season when upwards of 25 centimetres of snowfall hit the city on Wednesday night and Thursday morning. CTV News reports that Environmental Canada has upgraded the special weather statement for Toronto to a snowfall warning. According to the federal agency, snowfall amounts of 15…