CBC - Politics (56 minutes ago)
There's been a lot of chatter about interprovincial trade barriers lately — namely, that Canada should remove them, with federal and provincial officials saying that opening up domestic trade could soften the impact of potential U.S. tariffs. But what are these barriers, and how do they impact our daily lives?
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Ahead of the three-year mark of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, some Ukrainians who settled in southestern Ontario as temporary residents are feeling uneasy about the future and whether they'll be able to remain in Canada as a March 31 deadline approaches.
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The clock continues to wind down on U.S. President Donald Trump's next deadline for imposing sweeping tariffs on Canadian goods. In the meantime, some American lawmakers are pushing the president to back off tariffs altogether — and they hope Canada notices.
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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said on Wednesday that he will change criminal law if he's elected so that all drug "kingpins" convicted of trafficking what he's calling major quantities of fentanyl are hit with a mandatory life sentence in prison.
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Many of the concessions Trump claimed to have won from Mexico when he agreed to a delay on tariffs were not really new, at least in a significant way. But Mexico's former ambassador to the U.S. says the country should still expect more tariff threats, if not worse.
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Liberal leadership contender Mark Carney says if he becomes prime minister, he would meet the NATO defence spending benchmark two years ahead of the Trudeau government's official target. But to hit that target, he said Canada must move its defence spending back home.
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Liberal leadership hopefuls are pivoting and responding to the attention-consuming existential threats to Canadian trade posed by U.S. President Donald Trump — a preview of what the next federal election is going to look like, according to Liberal strategists.
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With the threat of punishing tariffs still hovering over the Canadian economy, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the government will host a Canada-U.S. Economic Summit later this week, aimed at increasing investment and easing internal trade barriers.
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The trade war is off. At least for now. But that is of limited solace. And even if the next deadline somehow comes and goes without the resumption of hostilities, it's not clear when Canadians will again be able to reasonably view the United States as a reliable friend or predictable ally.
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The U.S. Senate is conducting confirmation hearings for Tulsi Gabbard, Donald Trump's nominee for director of national intelligence. Gabbard has no background in intelligence, and a history of promoting conspiracies and supporting dictators at odds with the West. Canadian intelligence experts say that could be a problem for Canada.
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On Saturday night, shortly after 9 p.m. ET, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivered a speech on Parliament Hill announcing Canada's response to a 25 per cent tariff U.S. President Donald Trump is imposing on most Canadian goods. Here's a transcript of his remarks.
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Uncertainty is the reality for Mounties who patrol the Canada-U.S. border, the flashpoint in the increasingly uneasy bilateral relationship. CBC News shadowed one officer for hours earlier this week to get a sense of their challenges in this political climate.
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The first shots of the trade war between the United States and Canada have been fired. Whether it escalates beyond the planned 25 per cent tariff into a wider economic war depends upon how genuinely serious President Donald Trump is about annexation, experts say.
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U.S. President Donald Trump says he is 'not looking for concessions' from Canada as the White House confirmed he's going forward with 25 per cent levies on imports from Canada on Saturday. Trump added he will 'probably' set tariffs on Canadian oil at 10 per cent.
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Health Minister Mark Holland says he's looking forward to signing more pharmacare deals with provinces and territories "in the coming days" — and opposition parties should rethink their plans to bring down the government this spring to allow that to happen.
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Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says Canadian Armed Forces veteran David Lavery is 'safe' in Qatar — months after a network that supports vets expressed concern that Lavery went missing in Afghanistan and was possibly detained by the Taliban government.
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Nicotine control groups who have waited years for a nationwide ban on vaping flavours say they've now been given indications it won't happen — despite a promise from the Canadian government last fall the restrictions were coming soon. It comes as the country's top public health doctors have once again called on Ottawa to ban vaping flavours to...
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Transport Minister Anita Anand, Defence Minister Bill Blair and Housing Minister Nathaniel Erskine-Smith all announced Saturday they're endorsing Mark Carney for federal Liberal leader as more of Justin Trudeau's cabinet coalesces around the former Bank of Canada governor.
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