Electrical

[published_date] Dreams do come true. U.S. President Donald Trump wished for Canada's tax on U.S. tech companies to disappear on Friday, and by Sunday, it had. Mostly, there was a sense of surprise that the federal government would play such a valuable card this soon. The digital services tax (DST), which Ottawa was supposed to start collecting…

[published_date] Leaning into a small microphone in a Quebec City studio, Dr. Alec Cooper takes a breath and reads out part of the often-quoted "To be, or not to be" soliloquy from Shakespeare's Hamlet. "It's pretty dramatic," said Cooper, backing away from the microphone and letting out a laugh. "I just realized, my God, it…

[published_date] The United States resumed trade negotiations with Canada Monday morning, after the federal government scrapped its tax targeting large technology firms. Prime Minister Mark Carney said he spoke with U.S. President Donald Trump on the phone Sunday evening. He said they decided to continue with negotiations, with the previously agreed-upon July 21 deadline still…

[published_date] A 12-year-old boy who was bitten by a coyote in King Township on the weekend says it "scares" him that the animal is still on the loose. Rocco Morra was bitten near Highway 27 and King Road in Nobleton at about 12:15 p.m. on Sunday. York Regional Police are warning residents to use caution after…

[published_date] Canadian sprint canoeist Katie Vincent set a world record in the women's C-1 500-metre event on Sunday at the national trials in Montreal. The 29-year-old Olympic champion clocked a time of two minutes 0.609 seconds in the final at the Olympic Basin, breaking the previous mark of 2:00.73 set by Alena Nazdrova of Belarus at the 2019 world championships in Szeged, Hungary. 2022…

[published_date] B.C. Ferries says it's clarifying its internal policies to no longer allow tow trucks carrying non-operational electric vehicles (EVs) on board its vessels. Transport Canada has had a policy on the books since 2014 that mandates damaged or defective vehicle batteries be removed and transported separately from the vehicles themselves on board ferries. It comes…

[published_date] Mitch Marner appears set to call Sin City home. According to multiple media reports Monday, the Maple Leafs are trading Marner to the Vegas Golden Knights in a swap that ends his at-times mesmerizing, at-times frustrating Toronto tenure. The talented winger reportedly agreed to an eight-year, $96-million US contract with the Leafs ahead of…

[published_date] U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra says President Donald Trump's renewed 51st state rhetoric can be taken as a compliment, suggesting that's how it's seen by Prime Minister Mark Carney. In an interview with CBC's Power & Politics, Hoekstra suggested Carney saw the comments as a "term of endearment," while clarifying Canada's leader "didn't exactly use this word." When…

[published_date] The federal government says it has removed all interprovincial trade barriers under its jurisdiction.  Ottawa has eliminated the remaining federal exceptions from the Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA), Internal Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland said in a press release on Monday.  Of the 53 exceptions removed, most of them focused on procurement, according to the press…

[published_date] A Toronto senior is speaking out after she was left without her Old Age Security benefit for months because of a simple error by Service Canada that left her in a dire situation: the wrong year was allegedly entered into its system. Debbie Westfall says she applied for OAS in January, well before she turned 65 in March, because…

[published_date] Lululemon is accusing Costco of infringing on its intellectual property by selling knock-offs of some of its most popular products. A lawsuit filed in a California court recently alleges Costco sells "dupes" of Lululemon's Scuba hoodies and sweatshirts, Define jackets and ABC pants. Some of the alleged fakes Vancouver-based Lululemon identified are sold under Costco's private…

[published_date] The Blanchard's Cricket Frog is so tiny it can fit on your thumb, and the distinctive call for which it is named would make it easy to hear — if it hadn't recently been declared locally extinct in its wetland habitat of southwestern Ontario.  Thomas Hossie, assistant professor of biology who studies amphibians at the province's Trent University, described the sound as "shaking…