By Commodity News Service Canada
Sept. 22 (CNS Canada) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally.
– Tim Horton’s restaurants is taking legal action against a group of franchise owners over what it called leaked information and negative comments. The action could force franchise owners in the Great North Franchisee Association out of the company. The association has responded with action of its own. The store owners in the association have been challenging the parent company over business decisions they said they disagreed with.
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– United States lawmakers are again attempting to repeal the Obamacare health act and institute one that shifts more decision making power over how to spend the money to individual states. However, the bill introduced in the U.S. Senate would reduce overall funding by about US$107 billion.
– North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un remains defiant after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered more sanctions designed to punish North Korea for its nuclear weapons program. “I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged U.S. dotard with fire,” Kim said in a statement translated by the country’s state news agency.