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India pushes renewed trade talks with Canada in aftermath of two Michaels China woes
OTTAWA — Canada and India are quietly setting the stage to reboot formal free trade talks as the Trudeau government seeks economic alternatives to China following the dispute over the Meng Wanzhou-two Michaels affair. Trade negotiators from both countr...
Freeland says Canada may retaliate against U.S. softwood lumber duty rate
OTTAWA — Canada is prepared to retaliate against an American increase of duties on Canadian softwood lumber producers, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said Thursday. "We will do precisely what we have done successfully with two previous America...
TC Energy seeks to recoup costs from U.S. for cancelled Keystone XL pipeline project
WASHINGTON — Pipeline giant TC Energy is formally seeking to recover more than US$15 billion in "economic damages" from the U.S. government following President Joe Biden's Day 1 decision to cancel the cross-border Keystone XL expansion project. The Ca...
A ‘one-way door’: Ottawa goes slow on easing testing rule for Canada-U.S. travellers
WASHINGTON — Ottawa is effectively installing "one-way" signs along the road to the Canada-U.S. border, critics complained Friday as the federal government promised to stop requiring costly COVID-19 tests to enter the country — but only for Canadian ci...
Trudeau calls Three Amigos summit ‘extremely effective,’ but Biden unmoved on EVs
WASHINGTON — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tried to claim a moral victory Thursday after his day at the White House did little to defuse an escalating continental dispute over President Joe Biden's plans to encourage Americans to buy more electric
‘I don’t know’: Biden noncommittal on including Canadian vehicles in EV tax credit
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Joe Biden isn't making any promises about whether he's willing to alter his controversial tax credit proposal for new electric vehicles. Biden, meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the Oval Office, says that's one ...
A list of Canada-U.S. irritants as Thursday’s trilateral Three Amigos summit nears
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA — As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets Thursday with U.S. President Joe Biden and Mexican President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador, observers say Canada has a lot to complain about. Here are some of the issues that have
There’s room, reason for Canada, U.S. to find common ground on EVs, Freeland says
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA — There's plenty of room and lots of good reasons for Canada and the United States to find common ground on tax credits for electric vehicles, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said Wednesday on the eve of
Canada, South Asian bloc to begin free-trade talks in effort to diversify from China
OTTAWA — Canada is launching free-trade talks with a major group of southeast Asian countries as it seeks to diversify from China and find new ways of coping with a snarled global supply chain. International Trade Minister Mary Ng announced the
Michigan judge rejects attorney general’s effort to move Line 5 case to state court
WASHINGTON — Calgary-based Enbridge Inc. scored a key victory in the Line 5 dispute Tuesday as a judge in Michigan rejected the state attorney general's bid to get the dispute over the cross-border pipeline kicked out of federal court. U.S.