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The European Union on Wednesday announced retaliatory trade action with new duties on U.S. industrial and farm products, responding within hours to the Trump administration’s increase in tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports to 25 per cent. The world’s biggest trading bloc was expecting the U.S. tariffs and prepared …
Read More »He’s the face of Trump’s tariffs. But 9/11 attacks put Howard Lutnick on the national stage
On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Howard Lutnick took his five-year-old son to school for his first day of kindergarten, causing the Wall Street CEO to be a little late getting to work at his World Trade Center office in New York City. That delay ended up saving the life of Lutnick, who is now …
Read More »What’s at stake for American culture with Trump’s Kennedy Center changes
In her two decades as a human rights lawyer, working on issues in more than 25 countries, Hadar Harris says she is alarmed by what she’s witnessing on U.S. soil and worried that some Americans may not be paying close enough attention. “I would say that this is a very dangerous …
Read More »In the world’s largest refugee camp, Trump’s USAID freeze makes a bad situation worse
On a weekday at the world’s largest refugee camp, dozens of women and men form two surging queues, pushing to reach the front of the line to get their official aid registration cards processed. The crowd is made of refugees from neighbouring Myanmar’s persecuted Muslim minority Rohingya community, recently arrived …
Read More »Arab states adopt Egyptian alternative to Trump’s ‘Gaza Riviera’ plan at summit
Arab leaders adopted an Egyptian reconstruction plan for Gaza on Tuesday that would cost $53 billion US and avoid resettling Palestinians, in contrast to U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Middle East Riviera” vision, according to a copy of the plan. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said the proposal had been accepted at the closing of a …
Read More »Trump’s tariffs roil U.S. markets. And that’s the reaction that matters
Canada can huff, and puff, but if anything’s going to blow down Donald Trump’s house of tariffs it’s going to be the reaction within the United States. And there are signs of pushback. The stock market is turning, economic sentiment is nosediving, the U.S. president’s approval is receding, and American lawyers …
Read More »How to watch Donald Trump’s joint congressional address Tuesday
U.S. President Donald Trump will deliver the first joint congressional address of his second term on Tuesday night. The speech comes six weeks into Trump’s presidency as his administration is gutting federal government agencies, cracking down on illegal immigration, stoking controversy around wars in Ukraine and Gaza, and rolling out …
Read More »‘People will die,’ says Canadian charity in Kenya as Trump’s USAID cuts threaten HIV medications
In Nanyuki, a market town just northwest of Mount Kenya, some foreign aid workers and volunteers are worried what U.S. President Donald Trump’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development will mean for the people there. “It’s a concern. It’s a real issue,” said Rex Taylor, co-founder and president of The Small Project, a …
Read More »U.S. health agencies joined WHO’s flu meeting despite Trump’s plan to pull out
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration took part in a World Health Organization meeting to discuss flu vaccine composition, an official at the UN agency said on Friday. President Donald Trump started the 12-month withdrawal process for the U.S. to leave the …
Read More »From old grievances to new allies: Trump’s history with tariffs
A long time ago, well before the name Donald Trump elicited triumphant cheers or the angry gnashing of teeth, the man who would become president of the United States was selling economic nationalism as the country’s best path forward. “If the United States were a corporation, it would be bankrupt. …
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