U.S. President Donald Trump’s unprecedented move to pull America’s closest neighbours into a trade war has left some Republican lawmakers precariously navigating how to support the leader’s tariff agenda while their local economies brace for impact. Many Republicans — caught between risking the president’s ire and facing backlash from constituents concerned about rising costs — remained quiet…
Less than two weeks into his second term as U.S. president, Donald Trump has fuelled even more uncertainty for longtime allies, upended the civil service and targeted any dissent in his administration. That combative approach is likely making one-time friends to the U.S. look elsewhere for stability, a former Trump administration official says. “It’s making…
Liberal leadership contender Mark Carney is backing away from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s consumer carbon pricing regime but will keep industrial pricing in place. Carney said the country has become divided over the policy because Canadians have been fed “misinformation” by Conservative Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre. “Since Canada’s current climate policy has become too divisive,…
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has responded to U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods. Trudeau spoke to media Saturday after U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order imposing the tariffs. Trump said in a statement that he has implemented a 25 per cent tariff on imports from both Canada and Mexico, which drops to 10 per…
More than two million Canadians will be able to file their taxes automatically this year. The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) said in a news release Thursday that it is opening up its SimpleFile by Phone service to more Canadians this tax season, while also for the first time making a digital option available for people…
“We’re trying to solve both the short term and the long-term things. We put a bunch of money on the table. We’re just looking for permission to do all that good,” said Ric McIver, Alberta’s Minister of Municipal Affairs. The message hasn’t changed since the province first declared it was at an impasse with the…
Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has warned the United States of a “forceful but reasonable immediate response” as the clock ticks down on tariffs on Canadian goods expected to come from the U.S. this Saturday. A day before that looming measure, Trudeau is meeting with the newly formed Canada-U.S. relations council in Toronto on Friday. In…
The British Columbia government has approved a legal order to extend temporary protections to an old-growth forest on Vancouver Island even as Minister of Forests Ravi Parmar acknowledges RCMP are investigating reports of tree spiking in the Fairy Creek watershed. Parmar says he was informed of the reports last week, calling the news of tree…
The Bank of Canada lowered its key interest rate once again on Wednesday, cutting it by 25 basis points to stand at three per cent. The quarter-point drop is smaller than what the central bank delivered in its previous two interest rate decisions, where it cut the rate by 50 basis points each time. Bank…
“I cried,” it was “like being kept in captivity.” That’s how Rose Roll of Taber described her stay at the Chinook Regional Hospital in Lethbridge after she says she was moved to a bed in a storage closet. Roll claims she was also forced to find her own bedding, food, water from a vending machine…
