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  • OTTAWA, CANADA – MARCH 14: New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney addresses the media after being sworn in at Rideau Hall on March 14, 2025 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Carney, a former central banker, replaces Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister and Liberal Party leader as the country faces a trade war with the United States. (Photo by Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images)Politics

    New Prime Minister Mark Carney vows Canada will ‘never, ever’ be part of the US as he seeks alliances in Europe

    By Rob Gillies and The Associated Press
  • President Donald Trump arrives at the annual St. Patrick’s Day luncheon at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 12, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)Politics

    Trump says tariffs will bring back ‘stolen’ wealth and companies—and higher ones will work even better—as trade war fears stoke business anxiety

    By Josh Boak, Paul Wiseman, and others
  • U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on March 06, 2025 in Washington, DC.Finance

    Canada and the EU launch billions in new tariffs on American goods from beef to bourbon in retaliation against Trump

    By Lorne Cook, David McHugh, and others
  • Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks into a microphonePolitics

    Canada will respond to Trump’s metal tariffs with more than $20 billion in retaliatory tariffs

    By Rob Gillies and The Associated Press
  • Ontario Premier Doug Ford holds a news conference regarding the new tariffs that the United States has placed on Canada, at Queen’s Park in Toronto on Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)Finance

    Ontario hits back at Trump’s tariffs with higher electricity bills for 1.5 million Americans

    By The Associated Press and Rob Gillies
  • OTTAWA, CANADA – MARCH 9: Mark Carney, newly elected as the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, delivers his victory address following the official announcement of the 2025 Liberal Leadership race results at Rogers Centre, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on March 9, 2025. (Photo by Stringer/Anadolu via Getty Images)Politics

    Canada’s next prime minister managed the 2008 financial crisis and Brexit—and now Trump’s trade war

    By Rob Gillies and The Associated Press
  • Mark Carney, former governor of the Bank of Canada and Liberal Party leader candidate, during a Liberal Party leadership debate in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. Liberals will decide on a new leader by March 9, which gives the winner of the contest about two weeks before Parliament returns. Photographer: Graham Hughes/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesPolitics

    Mark Carney to become Canada’s next prime minister, taking on Trump’s trade war and annexation threat

    By Rob Gillies and The Associated Press
  • Justin TrudeauPolitics

    Trudeau accuses Trump of sidling up to Russia and blasts new tariffs: ‘Donald, this is a very dumb thing to do’

    By Rob Gillies and The Associated Press
  • This combination of file photos shows, from left, U.S. President Donald Trump in Palm Beach, Fla., Feb. 7, 2025, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Kyiv, Ukraine, June 10, 2023, China’s President Xi Jinping in Brasilia, Brazil, Nov. 20, 2024, and Mexico’s President in Mexico City, June 27, 2024. Claudia Sheinbaum (AP Photo)Politics

    Trump tariffs on Canada and Mexico go into effect as China hits back at U.S. farm exports and Canada prepares to roll out its own

    By Josh Boak, Paul Wiseman, and others
  • Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum gives her daily morning press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)Finance

    Trump agrees to one-month pause on Mexico and Canada tariffs after they pledge to boost border enforcement

    By Josh Boak, Rob Gillies, and others
  • A close-up of Ontario Premier Doug FordFinance

    Doug Ford says he will ‘rip up’ Ontario’s $68 million contract with Elon Musk’s Starlink, saying he will not do business with ‘people hell-bent on destroying our economy’

    By Rob Gillies and The Associated Press
  • Toronto, ON – July 11: Loblaws on Leslie Street had fill shelves of beer and wine. Alcohol stocks in GTA grocery stores. PD Nick Lachance/Toronto Star Nick Lachance/Toronto Star (Nick Lachance/Toronto Star via Getty Images)Politics

    Canadian authorities are removing American liquor brands from government stores as Canada prepares retaliation

    By Rob Gillies, Fabiola Sánchez, and others
  • Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau answers questions from reporters as he makes his way to a meeting of the Liberal caucus in West Block on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP)Politics

    Canada’s Justin Trudeau says Americans will pay more whenever Trump decides to impose tariffs on neighbor

    By Rob Gillies and The Associated Press
  • Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Melanie Joly and Minister of Finance and Intergovernmental Affairs Dominic LeBlanc speak to reporters prior to a meeting during a cabinet retreat at Chateau Montebello in Montebello, Quebec, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP)Politics

    Canada says it ‘will continue to work on preventing tariffs’ but said it is also ‘working on retaliation’ if Trump follows through with Feb. 1 threat

    By Rob Gillies and The Associated Press
  • President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Republican governors at Mar-a-Lago, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)Politics

    Canada ready to buy more American products, including a submarine fleet, to appease Trump tariff threat, ambassador says

    By Rob Gillies and The Associated Press