OTTAWA — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has gained two allies in her push to take energy exports off the table, as Canada's first ministers ponder a response to United States President Donald Trump's threatened 25 per cent tariff on all Canadian goods. Read More

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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has been under fire for apparently betraying Team Canada when it comes to the threatened tariffs from President Donald Trump. Read More

It was Canadian author Ronald Wright who noted that each time history repeats itself, the cost goes up. Read More

The tariffs are coming. Not today, but perhaps on Feb. 1. That’s what U.S. President Donald Trump suggested on Monday, after his inaugural address. Read More

For Canadian pundits and Liberal leadership hopefuls, Monday's presidential inauguration in the United States was a letdown. Not only did U.S. President Donald Trump not keep his promise to slap Canadian goods with a 25 per cent tariff on Day 1, he didn't even mention us in his inaugural address. Read More

Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc says Donald Trump's suggestion that he will impose sweeping tariffs on Canada on Feb. 1 is "nothing new," and insists Canada has plans ready for several possible scenarios. Read More

President Donald Trump said that he plans to enact across-the-board tariffs of as much as 25 per cent on Canada and Mexico by Feb. 1, reiterating his contention that the U.S.’s two immediate neighbours are allowing the flow of migrants and drugs into the country. Read More

OTTAWA — “For now.” Read More

For all the bravado about retaliation, Canadians were like prisoners on death row on Monday morning, waiting for the door handle to turn to find out if they’d been granted a reprieve or were about to have their final breakfast. Read More

OTTAWA — As Alberta Premier Danielle Smith worked rooms in Washington, D.C., on Monday morning, welcome news broke that President Donald Trump wouldn't immediately slap a 25 per cent tariff on Canadian goods, a move that would have devastated Alberta's oil and gas industry. Read More

Canadian politicians, business leaders and general consumers fearing an onslaught of new trade tariffs by U.S. President Donald Trump following his inauguration today got mixed messages Monday. Read More

Canadian politicians are descending on Washington, D.C., amid threats of 25 per cent tariffs when Donald Trump returns to the White House. Many are going to an event at the Canadian Embassy, which sits on Pennsylvania Avenue between the U.S. Capitol and the White House. Here are some of the Canadians expected to be in Washington Monday: Read More

OTTAWA — Former finance minister Chrystia Freeland endured more than a dozen disruptions to her Liberal leadership launch speech on Sunday as protesters shouted her down and banged on a door at the Toronto venue. Read More

Ontario politicians, business leaders and union executives are set to descend on Washington, D.C., for U.S. president-elect Donald Trump's inauguration as part of a provincial pushback to the incoming administration's looming trade war. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday singled out Alberta Premier Danielle Smith as being the only provincial leader to act against Canada's national interest, after she refused to sign a statement supporting the country's approach to incoming U.S. president-elect Donald Trump's threat of tariffs. Read More

For a political leader, few things are more attractive than riding to election victory on a wave of patriotic enthusiasm. It’s an urge that Ontario Premier Doug Ford seems less and less likely to resist. Read More

While we’re all waiting for something resembling a Team Canada approach to materialize in the looming U.S. trade-war catastrophe, let’s begin with a quick account of just how close Canada has come to failed-state status. Read More

President-elect Donald Trump said he would create an “External Revenue Service” tasked with collecting tariffs on foreign imports, the latest indication that the Republican aims to carry out his promises for sweeping trade levies when he retakes office. Read More

OTTAWA — The chair of Canada's premiers had a message for Americans walking into Wednesday's meeting with the prime minister, called to discuss the country's plan should U.S-president elect Donald Trump make good on his threat to slap a 25 per cent tariff on Canadian goods.  Read More