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There’s an old cliché that if you want a friend in Washington, get a dog. Alliances here shift with the political winds. The good news for Canada is there’s fresh evidence that, right now, it has allies on tariffs. People are voicing horror at the threat to slap them across …

The annual International Homecoming Festival celebrates the connections between St. Stephen, N.B. and Calais, Maine. (Sam Farley/CBC) Ties between New Brunswick and Maine run deep: just ask Chellie Pingree, the Democratic congresswoman for Maine’s 1st congressional district. And she’s not alone. Other elected officials and political and business experts underscore the many …

China on Tuesday slapped tariffs on U.S. imports in a swift response to new U.S. duties on Chinese goods, renewing a trade war between the world’s top two economies even as President Donald Trump offered reprieves to Canada and Mexico. Additional 10 per cent tariff across all Chinese imports into the U.S. came into effect …

Canadians have begun organizing efforts of their own to counteract U.S. tariffs imposed Saturday by President Donald Trump, with some heeding calls by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who quickly announced retaliatory levies against the U.S., to buy Canadian and boycott U.S. goods as much as possible. Giancarlo Trimarchi, past-chair of the Canadian Federation of Independent …

China’s government on Sunday denounced the Trump administration’s imposition of a long-threatened 10 per cent tariff on Chinese imports while leaving the door open for talks with the U.S. that could avoid a deepening conflict. Beijing will challenge President Donald Trump’s tariff at the World Trade Organization — a symbolic gesture — and …

European leaders warned on Monday that U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to expand tariffs to the EU risked setting off a trade war that would cause economic harm on both sides of the Atlantic. European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said if the U.S. and Europe started a trade …

Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford is “ripping up” Ontario’s nearly $100 million contract with Elon Musk’s Starlink in the wake of U.S. tariffs on virtually all Canadian goods, he said in a statement Monday.  The contract, signed in November, was meant to provide high-speed internet access through Starlink’s satellite service to 15,000 eligible homes and businesses in rural, remote …

Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum says American tariffs on her country have been delayed for a month after a conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump, a statement confirmed by the White House. “Mexico will reinforce the northern border with 10,000 members of the National Guard immediately, to stop drug trafficking from …

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 …

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