Stocks are falling again on Wall Street as companies and investors react to President Donald Trump's decision to impose tariffs on the U.S.'s biggest trading partners. The S&P 500 dropped
Despite being out of prison for over two years, Marvin Starblanket isn't a free man. Starblanket - of the Mistawasis First Nation, an Indigenous nation from Saskatchewan, Canada - is under a five-year supervision order.
Canada and the United States offered to resettle 48 ethnic Uyghurs held in detention in Thailand over the past decade, sources told Reuters, but Bangkok took no action for fear of upsetting China, where they were covertly deported last week.
President Donald Trump said Thursday that 25% tariffs on goods imported from Canada and Mexico would go into effect Tuesday.
China will continue to grow bilateral relations with Canada on the basis of mutual respect and equality, the foreign ministry said after Mark Carney won the race to lead Canada's ruling party and become the next prime minister.
Beijing, which set steep duties on canola, peas and pork, wants Canada and Mexico to resist U.S. pressure to raise tariffs on Chinese goods.
China announced tariffs on Canadian agricultural and food products on Saturday in retaliation for October's decision to impose duties on Chinese-made electric vehicles, steel and aluminium. The Chinese commerce ministry said a 100 per cent tariff would be placed on Canadian rapeseed oil,
The Trump administration will implement new tariffs this week while retaliatory taxes from Canada and China begin Monday.
Starting just past midnight Tuesday, imports from Canada and Mexico are now taxed at 25%, with Canadian energy products getting tariffed at 10%.
The president has launched a trade war seeking to quell the flow of illegal immigrants and the illegal trafficking of drugs and rebalance trade.