Category Archives: Canada

In the news today: Trade agreement worthless with Trump tariffs
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Architects say Trump's tariffs 'blows a complete hole' in continental trade agreement The architects of the Ca...
Mar 6, 2025

Shots over the bow: Why provinces are using liquor leverage in trade war with U.S.
VANCOUVER - The dozens of Kentucky bourbons listed on the BC Liquor Stores website range from a two-ounce bottle of Maker's Mark, priced at $5.29, to a $2,400 bottle of Woodford Reserve, aged in cogna...
Mar 6, 2025

Architects say Trump's tariffs 'blows a complete hole' in continental trade agreement
WASHINGTON - The Canadian and Mexican architects of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement say Donald Trump's trade war has crossed a line that essentially wipes out the continental trade pact, as experts s...
Mar 6, 2025

Joly told Liberals she briefed Carney on Trump tariffs
OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Mlanie Joly's office confirms she has briefed Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney on President Donald Trump's tariffs days ahead of Sunday's leadership vote this...
Mar 5, 2025

CP NewsAlert: Manitoba Tories apologize to victims' families in landfill search case
WINNIPEG - The interim leader of Manitoba's Progressive Conservatives has apologized to the families of two slain First Nations women for declining to search a landfill for their remains. Wayne Ewasko...
Mar 5, 2025

More than 100 arrested in countrywide child exploitation operation, police say
OTTAWA - Police say they have made more than 100 arrests and laid more than 300 charges in a major national child exploitation operation. Representatives of the RCMP and other police forces provided a...
Mar 5, 2025

Canada advances toxic label for 'forever chemicals,' phased regulation approach
The federal government says it's moving ahead with a plan to designate the entire class of so-called forever chemicals as toxic and expects to begin consultations in two years on further regulating th...
Mar 5, 2025

Quebec's Beauce region, known as a hub for business, upended by U.S. tariffs
MONTREAL - The head of a business group says Quebec's Beauce region is in a "state of shock" following U.S. President Donald Trump's imposition of tariffs on Canadian imports. Hlne Latulippe of the Co...
Mar 5, 2025

Weak dollar, anger toward U.S. expected to give big boost to Quebec tourism industry
MONTREAL - The weak Canadian dollar and the trade war with the United States is expected to boost Quebec's tourism economy this year. A major tourism association says it calculated that Quebecers who ...
Mar 5, 2025

No compromise on tariffs, Ontario Premier Doug Ford says
TORONTO - Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are on the same page with a position that Canada will not be compromising on tariffs. He suggests Canada will not be remov...
Mar 5, 2025