OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal government is pushing back against U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest threat to impose 100 per cent tariffs on all Canadian imports if Ottawa makes a trade deal with China, insisting there is no deal in the works. Read More

President Trump said he would impose tariffs if Canada made “a deal with China,” though there is no sign that those countries are discussing a broad trade agreement.

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Les 4 astronautes de la mission Artémis II doivent bientôt décoller pour un voyage en orbite lunaire. Mais que se passerait-il si l'un d'eux tombait malade juste avant le grand jour ?

Les 4 astronautes de la mission Artémis II doivent bientôt décoller pour un voyage en orbite lunaire. Mais que se passerait-il si l'un d'eux tombait malade juste avant le grand jour ?

President also claims US refineries will process seized Venezuelan oil, saying ‘we take the oil’

Donald Trump on Saturday said he would impose a 100% tariff on all Canadian imports if the North American country makes a trade deal with China.

Beside that tariff threat, another Trump foreign policy maneuver to make news on Saturday involved the president announcing the US had taken the oil that was on recently seized Venezuelan tankers.

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© Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP

© Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP

President Donald Trump threatened Canada with 100% tariffs against all its exports to the U.S. if it makes a trade deal with China, escalating tensions between the U.S. and its northern neighbor. Read More

Set for release Jan. 27, Lament for a Literature is the new book from Richard Stursberg, in which he laments the decline of Canadian literature, for which he blames multiple factors. In this excerpt, he addresses the impact of Justin Trudeau's Liberals, arguing they took over a badly weakened cultural sector from the Harper Conservatives and threw money at it without addressing the difficult structural issues affecting it, only making things worse. The government, he said, did not understand "that as Canadian media eroded and Canadians embraced the new foreign digital platforms, they walked away from Canada itself. They no longer consumed Canadian news, laughed at Canadian comedies, read Canadian books, watched Canadian documentaries, or heard the opinions of Canadian experts on domestic social, cultural, political, economic, or historical issues. They effectively left the national conversation and moved to another amorphous, filter-bubbling virtual country." Read More

OTTAWA — The member of Parliament representing Canada's northernmost territory says ever since U.S. President Donald Trump began escalating his desire to control Greenland, constituents have been reaching out, concerned.  Read More