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All signs point to Canada and the United States holding trade negotiations in two separate phases — with some now on immediate irritants, and the rest next year. The process is still taking shape. But the two-step idea is emerging in comments following this week’s meeting between Prime Minister Mark Carney …
Read More »Three ways this Canada-U.S. dispute will end
You’d have to squint till your eyeballs ache, but there is a foreseeable scenario where Canada and the U.S. build a closer relationship out of this ugly moment. This outcome is far from certain — hence the squinting. But one influential figure in Washington professes to see it. Donald Trump’s …
Read More »Major Canada-U.S. talks are coming — here’s what’s in play
Canada’s prime minister, whoever that is in a few weeks, is about to walk straight into a historic crossroads. We learned Friday the next government will start wide-ranging negotiations on a new economic and security arrangement with the United States. This could lead to drastically different places — down one …
Read More »How a century-old, Canada-U.S. collaboration keeps Niagara Falls shining bright — even in a trade war
No matter the tariffs, trade wars or political threats of the day, when the sun sets every night, Canada and America’s shared Niagara Falls will continue to be lit up as one. “I hope it symbolizes that these two countries really do have so much in common, so much to share and that our …
Read More »For 60 years, this Canada-U.S. treaty governed money, power and a river. With Trump’s threats, what now?
B.C. MLA Adrian Dix says he gets texts, emails, and even stopped at his local Safeway. He says people urge him to cut off power or even water to the U.S. “People are angry,” said Dix, B.C.’s Minister of Energy and Climate Solutions and the minister responsible for the Columbia River …
Read More »These charts reveal a Canada-U.S. bond forged in steel and aluminum
It’s a move that could reshape North American trade. Earlier this month, U.S. President Donald Trump announced tariffs on all steel and aluminum products coming into the U.S. from anywhere, including Canada. That means each time any Canadian steel or aluminum crosses the 49th parallel, U.S. importers will have to shell out 25 …
Read More »Trump tariffs hit markets on Monday in early reaction to Canada-U.S. trade war
U.S. stocks sank and the Canadian dollar fell further in early trading on Monday morning against the backdrop of a brewing North American trade war, then rebounded mid-morning after Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced that U.S. tariffs against her country would be delayed by one month. President Donald Trump announced on Saturday that extensive …
Read More »Human smuggling persists along Canada-U.S. border, despite crackdown
Human smuggling networks continue to operate along Quebec’s border with Vermont and New York state despite winter conditions and increased law enforcement, according to U.S. Federal Court records about two incidents over the past weekend. The U.S. Border Patrol disrupted a human smuggling run early Sunday across the Quebec-New York border …
Read More »U.S. Border Patrol agent killed in Vermont near Canada-U.S. border, say authorities
A U.S. Border Patrol agent was shot and killed in Vermont on Monday while performing their duties near the Canada-U.S. border, according to U.S. federal and state authorities. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) identified the agent as David C. Maland, who was assigned to the U.S. Border Patrol’s Swanton Sector, which …
Read More »New and old fears at a well-trodden Canada-U.S. border
Standing in a neighbour’s driveway on Perry Mills Road in Champlain, N.Y., less than a kilometre from the border with Canada, Stephen Phaneuf points to fields and forest behind the small blue home. “They come out from the fields, out from everywhere,” says Phaneuf, 67, referring to migrants crossing from …
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