Trade barriers and trucking: unified political fortitude needed to push through the noise
Trade barriers impeding supply chains and slowing down economic trade include: aligning and improving winter road maintenance standards; increased access to rest areas for truck drivers; and completing work and expanding critical highway connections to trade corridors.
Bloc’s supply management bill passes House as U.S. anticipates dairy being a trade ‘discussion point’
Bill C-202 was fast tracked through the House of Commons on June 5 and is off to the Senate.
Peacekeeping not apace: feds’ spending plan for UN operations down 42 per cent from 2015-16
Global Affairs Canada is proposing a 15.7-per-cent decline from planned spending of $219.9-million in 2024-25, and a 42.7 per cent decline from the actual spending of $323.9-million in 2015-16.
‘We’re hurt, too’: U.S. envoy counters Canadians’ outrage over annexation threats
U.S. envoy Pete Hoekstra says he is ‘not very sympathetic’ to the pain Canadians feel over Trump’s annexation threats as he looks to the future.
Unchartable as ever: Canada’s future still up in the air as Trump juggles his trade strategy
Canada needs some kind of breakthrough soon because the combination of existing tariffs and the uncertainty from Trump’s tariff shell game has this country headed for a recession.
The art of hedging a deal
Those trapped in rigid binaries risk becoming collateral damage in a conflict that transcends borders, ideologies, and even economics itself.
‘Trump isn’t interested in making a deal’: Carney’s fraught path towards U.S. trade talks
The future of Canada’s North American trade deal remains as open question leading up to the mandated 2026 review period.
Questions loom over funding and timeliness for Carney’s new foreign policy vision
Foreign policy observers say the prime minister’s plans for Canada’s place in the world will likely require new funds for the cash-strapped Global Affairs Canada.
Environment implications for proposed Liberal energy corridor unclear; ‘the devil is in the details,’ says uWaterloo academic
The ‘big juggernaut’ in assessing the potential of an energy corridor is how those plans fit in with Bill C-69, according to the chair of the positive energy program at UOttawa.
Canada must not join the deregulation race to the bottom
Long-term forestry-based employment can only be sustained if forests are managed to ensure their continued ecological integrity.
