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…

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“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…

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“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…

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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…

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