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Meanwhile, Mexico's secretary of economy says it's in everyone's interest to find common ground. The collapse of trade talks between Ottawa and Washington could see U.S. negotiators try to "aggressively" secure a win with Mexico in their ongoing bilateral talks, says a former Mexican trade negotiator. Kenneth Smith Ramos, Mexico's former chief technical negotiator during the initial 2017 to 201...
A Canadian Crown corporation is considering legal action against Colombia after that country’s Ministry of National Defence cancelled a contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars to construct its new ministry headquarters. The Canadian Commercial Corporation (CCC), a Crown corporation that reports to International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu, confirmed Colombian’s Ministry of National Defence had "terminated" the contract.
A major Mexican trade mission to Canada launched Thursday, involving over 200 Mexican businesses, looking to expand commercial links during the two-day, two-city encounter that will include high-level talks on the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA). The mission begins in Toronto on Thursday before moving to Montreal. It is the largest that Mexico has ever sent to Canada, though it's a truncated...
Over 370 delegates and more than 200 businesses seeking new markets. A Canadian trade mission to Mexico this week could produce new deals by early spring, and marks the country's "most significant" such mission ever to Mexico, according to Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc. LeBlanc is leading the mission, which will see over 370 Canadian delegates and more than 20...
Mexican lawmakers reflect on prime minister's words ahead of Canadian trade mission, CUSMA negotiations. Prime Minister Mark Carney’s speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, resonated in Mexico, a country which, much like Canada, has also been forced to grapple with the mercurial temperament of its much larger and powerful U.S. neighbour.
Mary Simon, a former ambassador to Denmark, says people are nervous about talk of annexation. The people of Greenland are hoping Canada has their back as they continue to face threats of annexation from the U.S., says Gov. Gen. Mary Simon. Simon, a former ambassador to Denmark and Canada’s first ambassador for Circumpolar Affairs, says she has spoken with Greenlanders...
The federal government is laying the groundwork for a Team Canada trade mission to Mexico next year that may become one of the largest it has ever deployed to a foreign country, says Cameron MacKay, the Canadian ambassador to Mexico. MacKay says hundreds of Canadian businesses have applied to be part of the mission, which is set for February and...
Trade has grown dramatically since NAFTA, but such pacts now face nationalist headwinds. A veteran Mexican lawmaker says the era of trilateral trade deals between Mexico-Canada and the U.S. is ending. Deputy Germán Martínez Cázares, a former member of the ruling National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party, says the existing agreement won’t survive the stress exerted by the nationalism pushed by...
An Afghan Canadian man is calling on the federal government to speed up the refugee sponsorship process for his mother, who fled Afghanistan after she was beaten by the Taliban and is now hiding in Tajikistan to avoid deportation back to Kabul. Noorullah Hakemi, who lives in Ottawa and came to Canada in 2019, said his mother, Bibi Khatoon Yaqoubi...
Chidi Nwagbo says he made a "stupid" decision paying human smugglers to get him into Canada that left him permanently scarred and in the hands of the very U.S. immigration authorities he was trying to flee. The 57-year-old says he paid $2,000 US in cash to a human smuggling organization in New Jersey to escape the immigration raids sweeping the...
Aracely saw Niagara Falls for the first time on a cold Monday in March as she crossed the Rainbow Bridge toward Canada with her common-law husband and two daughters aged four and 14, fleeing the immigration raids and sudden deportations sweeping across the U.S.
Pierre Poilievre campaigned for Ezra Levant in Calgary riding nomination. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has documented historic ties to Rebel News owner Ezra Levant, the media personality at the epicentre of a controversy that has engulfed Canada's Leaders' Debates Commission. After facing criticism for allowing right-wing media activists to dominate the post-French debate press conference, the commission cancelled Thursday's post-debate...
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.
On a late Saturday afternoon, two days before U.S. president-elect Donald Trump threatened tariffs on Canadian goods over migrants and fentanyl, the RCMP alerted U.S. Border Patrol about a group of people crossing illegally from Quebec into an area near Chateaugay, N.Y. Border Patrol agents initially spotted the group, but then lost them in the forests along these borderlands. Then...
The federal government issued a new passport to an admitted human smuggler after he was ordered to surrender the travel document as part of court-imposed release conditions, CBC News has learned. The new passport was discovered in June 2023 by RCMP investigators executing a search warrant at the Montreal home of Thesingarasan Rasiah during a probe targeting an international human...
U.S. president-elect Donald Trump's border czar says there is an "extreme national security vulnerability" along the Canada-U.S. border that he plans to deal with the moment the new Republican administration takes power.