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Donald Trump’s latest 50 per cent tariffs against Canada would likely be shot down in any court challenge, trade law experts say. Even though he’s theoretically on firmer legal ground than he was with so-called ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs which were rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court in February, Trump still needs to prove that Canada is “discriminating” against American trade...
Canadian steel and aluminum industries already reeling from Donald Trump’s 50 per cent tariffs have received another blow — hundreds of products containing the metals have been added to the American target list. The 407 items, ranging from wind turbines and tractors to baby strollers and furniture, were added to a list of “derivative” products announced Tuesday by U.S. Commerce...
Canada’s biggest shield against U.S. tariffs is still intact after Donald Trump’s latest trade deadline, but that could change by next year, experts warn, as Prime Minister Mark Carney prepares for a new round of talks with the mercurial American president. While Trump raised the tariff on Canadian goods to 35 per cent in an executive order Thursday night, an...
As Donald Trump‘s tariff threats grow louder and more persistent, fear in the heart of Canada’s automaking industry is palpable. “People are feeling three things. I think it’s fear, I think it’s anger, and I think it’s uncertainty,” said Oshawa Mayor Dan Carter, whose city has been reeling at the thought of the U.S. president’s threats to impose 25 per...
In a wide-ranging White House press conference, Trump also argued that Russia should be readmitted to the G7.
American President Donald Trump raised a long list of complaints against Canada and said the Canada-U.S. boundary could disappear when he spoke with the prime minister Monday, according to details Justin Trudeau revealed behind closed doors on Friday, the Star has learned. The Star first broke news that Trudeau told a group of nearly 200 business, industry and union leaders...
A broad coalition of Canada’s major news organizations, including the Toronto Star, Metroland Media, Postmedia, The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Press and CBC, is suing tech giant OpenAI, saying the company is illegally using news articles to train its ChatGPT software. It’s the first time all of a country’s major news publishers have come together in litigation against OpenAI...