As negotiations between Canada and the U.S. intensify over a new economic and security deal, Canada’s Ambassador to the U.S. Kirsten Hillman is cautioning the federal government will have to take relations with its southern neighbour “one step at a time.” Prime Minister Mark Carney is hosting the G7 leaders — along with leaders from several other countries — for...
Prime Minister Mark Carney's office says U.S. President Donald Trump has agreed to reach a deal on a new economic and security relationship with Canada by mid-July. Canada's formal summary of the meeting between the two leaders this morning says Trump and Carney "agreed to pursue negotiations toward a deal within the coming 30 days." It says the leaders also...
Nanos conducted an RDD dual frame (land- and cell-lines) hybrid telephone and online random survey of 1,120 Canadians, 18 years of age or older, between June 1st and 3rd, 2025 as part of an omnibus survey. The margin of error for this survey is ±2.9 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says she will attend the G7 summit next week in Kananaskis, Alta. Sheinbaum was one of several world leaders invited to the summit by Prime Minister Mark Carney who are not part of the Group of Seven. She says her team is working to set up bilateral meetings with G7 leaders, including U.S. President Donald Trump...
The B.C. government is pushing back on claims made by FBI director Kash Patel while discussing the fentanyl crisis with comedian Joe Rogan. Appearing on the latest episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, Patel told the host fentanyl precursor chemicals from China are being sent to Mexico and Canada to bypass U.S. drug enforcement efforts. “What they’re doing now...
Liberalizing trade within Canada has long been a challenge. Geographic constraints, infrastructure gaps, differences in language and culture, and easy access to a large market to the south have all dampened the volume of internal trade. Concerns over limited interprovincial trade have surfaced repeatedly throughout Canadian history, from early infrastructure challenges at Confederation aimed at bridging these divides to issues...
Elon Musk has always taken a curious pride in not spending big on advertising. Tesla’s meteoric rise was, in his telling, proof that a superior product—and a CEO with 220 million followers—renders paid media optional.
U.S. President Donald Trump's goal of enhancing American power aligns with Prime Minister Mark Carney's aim of making Canada's economy the fastest-growing in the G7, Trump's envoy to Canada said Friday. "It's going to continue to be a very strong and friendly relationship," Ambassador Pete Hoekstra told The Canadian Press in an interview Friday, adding the two leaders are in...
Prime Minister Mark Carney and his Chinese counterpart agreed Thursday to “regularize channels of communication” in Canada’s estranged relationship with China and hold talks to resolve a trade war affecting billions of dollars of trade between the two countries. Mr. Carney and Chinese Premier Li Qiang also agreed to further cooperate on fighting illegal production of the opioid fentanyl. It...
“This is going to be great television,” Donald Trump said after the humiliation of Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office a few months ago. That line has been the key to understanding the workings of the U.S. president’s second administration. Trump is an entertainer, and his government, run by Fox News talking heads and C-list celebrities, operates on the logic...
President Donald Trump’s envoy to Canada says some level of American tariffs on Canadian products is the new normal, holding out only slim hope that direct talks between Trump and Prime Minister Mark Carney could see them lifted entirely. U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra said in an interview with the Star that the president and U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick are...
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to cut Elon Musk’s government contracts as their fractured alliance rapidly escalated into a public feud with Trump suggesting he would use the U.S. government to hurt his fellow billionaire financially. The spectacular blow-up between the president of the United States and the world’s richest man played out on their respective social media...
Prime Minister Mark Carney is holding direct talks with U.S. President Donald Trump to iron out a framework for a trade and security agreement, the U.S. Ambassador to Canada says. Pete Hoekstra told The Globe and Mail that talks between the leaders and top cabinet ministers are being held under a cone of silence to ensure a positive outcome. The...
Canada posted its largest merchandise trade deficit on record in April at $7.1 billion as exports fell sharply in the face of U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs. Statistics Canada said Thursday the result, which followed a deficit of $2.3 billion in March, came as a plunge in exports to the U.S. more than offset a gain in shipments to other...
The optimism coming out of meetings between Prime Minister Mark Carney and Canada’s provincial premiers was quickly dampened by United States President Donald Trump, who later in the week announced a doubling of tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum. This, as the nation’s leaders continue with efforts to “Trump-proof” Canada’s economy. In some of the first data assessing the just-over-a-month-old...
Section of Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill could hit Canadian investors with new tax. A small, obscure section buried in U.S. President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act could cost Canadians and Canadian companies billions of dollars, CBC News has learned. Moreover, it could hand Prime Minister Mark Carney's government yet another political hot potato from south of the...
Prime Minister Mark Carney says his government is readying further retaliation measures if negotiations with the United States to end the recently doubled tariffs on steel and aluminum fail. "We are in intensive negotiations with the Americans and in parallel preparing reprisals if those negotiations do not succeed," he told the House of Commons during question period Wednesday afternoon.
So ends the first co-presidency of the United States of America. A technology entrepreneur took over the American government promising to save it billions of dollars; having failed to make billions of dollars by breaking it, he departed. Here is the essential paradox of Elon Musk and Donald Trump: They appear alike in their awful uniqueness, in their grotesque singularity...
The U.S. envoy to Canada held out hope Tuesday for the Canadian auto sector despite Donald Trump’s talk of cutting it out of the American market. Pete Hoekstra told a Toronto audience that Canada may still be able to work together with U.S. automakers under an industrial strategy focused on the threat from Chinese vehicle makers.
U.S. President Donald Trump issued a proclamation Tuesday, doubling tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from all countries, including Canada. According to the proclamation, Trump says, “the increased tariffs will more effectively counter foreign countries that continue to offload low-priced, excess steel and aluminum in the United States market.” The tariffs are set to take effect on Wednesday. In a...
Like a spoiled child, Donald Trump has kicked over the sandcastle defending what is left of the rules-based international trading order. As critics of that order, we accept the opportunity and challenge it creates to rethink international relations and mutating neoliberal dogmas. However, we are greatly concerned by the chaos and misfortune that Trump’s actions have caused for workers and...
U.S. President Donald Trump said he will double the tariffs on steel and aluminum imports to 50 per cent next Wednesday. Trump initially announced the boosted duties on steel during a rally at U.S. Steel’s Mon Valley Works–Irvin Plant near Pittsburgh Friday evening. He told a cheering crowd of steelworkers that the increased levies will "further secure the steel industry...
- President Donald Trump on Friday told Pennsylvania steelworkers he's doubling the tariff on steel imports to 50% to protect their industry, a dramatic increase that could further push up prices for a metal used to make housing, autos and other goods. In a post later on his Truth Social platform, he added that aluminum tariffs would also be doubled...
In April, the United States imposed a baseline 10 per cent tariff on nearly all imports, with higher country-specific rates proposed for its major trade partners. Japan was hit hard: it faces a potential 24 per cent U.S. tariff on its exports beginning July 9 unless the two sides can reach an agreement before then. A separate 25 per cent...
U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs are still hitting most countries around the world after a federal appeals court temporarily paused a decision from the U.S. Court of International Trade. The lower court's Wednesday decision found Trump's use of an emergency powers law to impose sweeping tariffs exceeded his authority.
A federal appeals court on Thursday allowed President Donald Trump to continue collecting tariffs under an emergency powers law for now, as his administration appeals an order striking down the bulk of his signature set of economic policies. The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit granted an emergency motion from the Trump administration arguing that a halt is "critical...
The U.S. Court of International Trade on Wednesday struck down U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on Canada and the rest of the world, ruling he exceeded his authority under an emergency-powers law. The three-judge panel’s decision blocks both the fentanyl and border security-related tariffs on Canada and Mexico and the global “reciprocal tariffs” Trump imposed in April that have...
There's some good news, and some bad news, for Canada from U.S. President Donald Trump's ambassador to Ottawa. First, the good news: He suggests a new Canada-U.S. agreement is achievable in the not-too-distant future, and it would benefit both countries. The bad news? Don't count on tariff-free trade again.
The new U.S. ambassador to Canada says while U.S. President Donald Trump is unlikely to ever remove his slate of tariffs entirely, he’s confident Canada can reach a deal to secure the lowest levies possible. “The president has made it clear that there will probably be a tariff on every country that we do business with,” Pete Hoekstra said in...
Former U.S. president Joe Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, his office said Sunday. Biden was seen last week by doctors after urinary symptoms, and a prostate nodule was found. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer on Friday, with the cancer cells having spread to the bone. "While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer...
David L. Cohen, the previous US Ambassador to Canada, credits new Prime Minister Mark Carney with a strong start resetting the country’s relationship with President Donald Trump. That’s partly why Cohen, a former Comcast executive and ambassador during the Biden administration, remains optimistic about the countries’ friendship, and an eventual cooling off in their trade war.
Canada hopes to make progress on lifting tariffs before G7 summit in Alberta: LeBlanc. International Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc says Canada has "no reason to think" the United States wants to trigger an early review of the North American free trade deal, but American officials do want to discuss tackling economic and security issues together.
As Canada looks for ways to see U.S. tariffs lifted, the country’s ambassador to Canada suggested the recent trade announcement with the United Kingdom could be a “template.” “I think this will kind of be a template for how we go around the world,” U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra told National Post. Article content Hoekstra made his comments as...
U.S. President Donald Trump said former prime minister Justin Trudeau led the effort to have Russia removed from the G8, even though the decision took place more than a year before Trudeau came to power. Speaking alongside FIFA president Gianni Infantino at a World Cup event in Washington on Tuesday, Trump said Trudeau and former U.S. president Barack Obama "didn't...
Some U.S. companies selling Chinese goods have been diverting their wares to Canadian warehouses, hoping to wait out the sky-high tariffs from President Donald Trump. Jesse Mitchell, director of business development at Strader-Ferris International, a cross-border customs brokerage, shipping and logistics company based in Prescott, Ont., is trying to convince them to stay.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Monday that he is skeptical of cutting a trade deal with the Canadian government, calling it a “socialist regime.” “Can we make a deal with Canada?” Fox Business Network’s Larry Kudlow asked on his show “Kudlow.”
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will visit US President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday in what could be one of the most contentious meetings between the neighboring countries’ leaders in years. Canada is America’s second-biggest trading partner and one of its closest allies on many fronts, from national security to commerce. But Trump’s aggressive tariff blitz in...
U.S. President Donald Trump says he’s “not sure” what Prime Minister Mark Carney “wants to see me about” ahead of tomorrow’s meeting. Trump and Carney are scheduled to speak at the White House on Tuesday. It will be their first in-person meeting since Canada’s election. “I guess he wants to make a deal. Everybody does,” said the U.S. president...
