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Goods and services tax ( GST )/ harmonized sales tax ( HST ), a value-added tax levied by the federal government. The GST applies nationally. The HST includes the provincial portion of the sales tax but is administered by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) and is applied under the same legislation as the GST. The HST is in effect in Ontario, New ...
Canadian provincial and territorial postal abbreviations are used by Canada Post in a code system consisting of two capital letters, to represent the 13 provinces and territories on addressed mail. These abbreviations allow automated sorting . ISO 3166-2:CA identifiers' second elements are all the same as these; ISO adopted the existing Canada ...
Alberta. / 55.99167°N 114.37667°W / 55.99167; -114.37667. Alberta is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is a part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta borders British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Territories to the north, and the U.S. state of ...
Canada has ten provinces and three territories that are sub-national administrative divisions under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Constitution.In the 1867 Canadian Confederation, three provinces of British North America—New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and the Province of Canada (which upon Confederation was divided into Ontario and Quebec)—united to form a federation, becoming a fully ...
RetailMeNot, Inc. RetailMeNot, Inc. (formerly Whaleshark Media) is an American multinational company headquartered in Austin, Texas, that maintains a collection of coupon web sites. The company was founded by Cotter Cunningham. [3] The company owns RetailMeNot.com and VoucherCodes.co.uk and acquires coupon sites and third-party software.
On April 1, 1936, Alberta became the first, and only, provincial government in Canada's history to default on a debt payment. [2] This default resulted in Premier William Aberhart's government passing The Ultimate Purchasers Tax Act [3] which introduced the first general sales tax in Alberta. The Act created a 2% tax on sales of all goods, with ...
Official Nicknames/Slogans. "Canada's Heart is Calling" – Travel Manitoba's current slogan since January 2023. [ 11] "Friendly Manitoba" – currently used on its license plates. "The Postage Stamp Province" – in its original form upon joining Confederation, Manitoba's size and shape resembled a postage stamp when viewing a map of Canada.
The provinces and territories are sometimes grouped into regions, listed here from west to east by province, followed by the three territories.Seats in the Senate are equally divided among four regions: the West, Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritimes, with special status for Newfoundland and Labrador as well as for the three territories of Northern Canada ('the North').