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  • Justin TrudeauRetail

    Canada slaps 100% tariff on Chinese EVs in trade standoff with Beijing

    By Rob Gillies and The Associated Press
  • Justin Trudeau speaks next to Canada flagsFinance

    Canada’s 100% tariff on China-made EVs only hits Tesla for now

    By Rob Gillies and The Associated Press
  • workers hold picket signsFinance

    Workers at top Canadian railroad company threaten to go on strike

    By Rob Gillies, Josh Funk, and others
  • A Canadian Pacific Railway Co. locomotive pulls a train at the Port of VancouverFinance

    Canada steps in to resolve freight train dispute as economic crisis loomed

    By Rob Gillies, Josh Funk, and others
  • A commuter in Canada isn't sure where to go now that the rails are closedFinance

    Government officials and businesses are scrambling after Canada’s rail lockout halts all shipments crossing the U.S. border

    By Rob Gillies, Josh Funk, and others
  • Rail cars outside the Canadian Pacific Railway Toronto Yard in TorontoFinance

    Canada braces for $730 million-a-day freight freeze as union talks stall: ‘The clock is ticking’

    By Rob Gillies, Josh Funk, and others
  • businessman Frank Stronach speaks with microphoneFinance

    Auto parts billionaire Frank Stronach, 91, arrested on sexual assault charges spanning decades

    By Rob Gillies and The Associated Press
  • Sentinels stand guard at the casket of former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney as he lies in repose at Saint Patrick’s Basilica in Montreal on March 21, 2024. Mulroney, who made his political mark in the 1980s with the signing of a ground-breaking free trade agreement with the US that later expanded to include Mexico, died on February 29, 2024. He was 84. (Photo by Ryan Remiorz / POOL / AFP) (Photo by RYAN REMIORZ/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)Leadership

    Canada honors Brian Mulroney, one of its most consequential prime ministers, at state funeral: ‘He got the big things right’

    By Rob Gillies and The Associated Press
  • Marc MillerPolitics

    ‘It’s time to rein it in’: Canada cuts foreign college students amid record immigration rates, citing housing, cost-of-living crisis

    By Rob Gillies and The Associated Press
  • OTTAWA, ONTARIO, CANADA – 2023/03/24: U.S. President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau seen prior to a joint press conference with journalists at the Sir John A. Macdonald Building in Ottawa. This is the first official visit that the American president has made to Canada since becoming president. Though visits between elected presidents and the allied country typically take place sooner, Bidens inaugural visit to the northern neighbor was delayed due to COVID-19 travel restrictions. (Photo by Katherine KY Cheng/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)Politics

    Canada warns LGBTQ+ community about visiting the U.S., where ‘certain states’ have passed laws banning drag shows and trans care

    By Rob Gillies and The Associated Press
  • New York CityEnvironment

    New York City’s smoky blanket of yellow air isn’t going away anytime soon

    By Jennifer Peltz, Rob Gillies, and others
  • U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III delivers remarks at the Halifax International Security Forum in Halifax on Saturday, Nov.19, 2022. (Andrew Vaughan /The Canadian Press via AP)

    Autocrats watching Putin’s Ukraine war might conclude ‘getting nuclear weapons would give them a hunting license of their own,’ warns Austin

    By Rob Gillies and The Associated Press
  • Justin Trudeau, Canada’s prime minister, listens during a news conference in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on Friday, May 7, 2021. Trudeau’s government has shared no details about when border rules might ease or what the criteria will be for doing so, though at a news conference this week he signaled support for a vaccine passport and raised the possibility that travel might resume this summer. Photographer: David Kawai/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesInternational

    Canada may open to vaccinated Americans by mid-August—and to all vaccinated travelers soon after

    By Rob Gillies and The Associated Press
  • Drivers wait to cross through Canadian customs at the Canada-US border near the Peace Arch Provincial Park in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada after Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced additional measures to combat the spread of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada March 16, 2020.Health

    Trump: US, Canada closing border to nonessential travel to stem spread of coronavirus

    By Rob Gillies, Zeke Miller, and others
  • VANCOUVER, BC - JANUARY 17: Huawei Technologies Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou leaves her house on her way to a court appearance on January 17, 2020 in Vancouver, Canada. The United States government accused Wanzhou of fraud after HSBC continued trade with Iran while sanctions were in place. (Photo by Jeff Vinnick/Getty Images)International

    Huawei CFO extradition trial begins as China protests ‘political’ treatment of tech champion exec

    By Jim Morris, Rob Gillies, and others