Alexander Panetta
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Trudeau To Trump: NAFTA Deal Is Right There, If Some Demands Are Scrapped
WASHINGTON — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has reportedly told President Donald Trump that a NAFTA agreement is imminently within reach as long as some controversial demands are set aside. That high-level conversation occurred in the midst of what many insiders view as a last-ditch push for a renegotiated agreement before impending political events pause the process until next year. The… → Read More
Trudeau tells Trump: We can have a NAFTA deal right now, if you want it
WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has reportedly told President Donald Trump that a NAFTA agreement is imminently within reach as long as some controversial demands are set aside. That high-level conversation occurred in the midst of what many insiders view as a last-ditch push for a renegotiated agreement before impending political events pause the process until next year. → Read More
Mexico doubts that a NAFTA deal is possible by Thursday target date
Mexico’s economy minister Ildefonoso Guajardo said a deal is still possible. → Read More
Trudeau, Trump talk about immediately wrapping up NAFTA deal in phone call
There are several signs of a disconnect between the ambitions of those who want significant changes in the agreement and the vanishingly small window of time left to reach an agreement in the short term. → Read More
NAFTA’s fate could be decided in the coming days
A moment of truth is approaching in the NAFTA negotiations. → Read More
Six-pack of scandal: A half-dozen highlights from a zany day in Trump's D.C.
WASHINGTON - Even by the standards of Donald Trump's Washington, Thursday was a zany day. Little bomblets of news related to the investigations into the president's inner circle kept dropping so quickly it was hard to keep track. → Read More
At last minute, U.S. delays metals tariffs again
Just hours before tariffs on steel and aluminum were set to take effect, possibly threatening a global trade war, the United States delayed their imposition until June 1. → Read More
Canada Hopes For Exemption As Trump's Steel, Aluminum Tariffs Deadline Arrives
"There's no jurisdiction on the planet that has a better case for a full exemption than Canada." → Read More
New NAFTA auto rules would spike car prices, act as a multibillion-dollar tax, study says
The new rule would ultimately hurt sales and consumers wallets, the Center for Automotive Research says. → Read More
Canada, U.S. spar over late-stage sticking point in NAFTA: sunset clause
In the late stages of bargaining, with hopes of a deal within days, sources say the United States has made clear it wants some sort of additional mechanism allowing the easy termination of NAFTA after several years. → Read More
NAFTA: Talks continue through weekend in scramble to get a deal soon
WASHINGTON - NAFTA negotiating teams will keep bargaining through the weekend in a rush to get a deal by early May, fuelled by a Trump administration desire to meet a legislative deadline.Those teams kept talking while their political masters leading the process left Washington on Friday, with plans to reconvene there early next week. → Read More
IMF projects economic growth for Canada, but at a slower pace
The World Economic Outlook foresees growth in Canada of 2.1 per cent in 2018 and two per cent in 2019. → Read More
Highlights of Comey book: Seven details from tell-all tome that has Trump fuming
James Comey's new tell-all isn't officially out yet, but it's already infuriated President Donald Trump, who has called Comey an "untruthful slime ball," and declared that he considered it an honour to fire the FBI director. → Read More
U.S. softens stance on auto demand in NAFTA negotiations
The United States has softened another of its key NAFTA demands, this time lowering to 75 per cent the amount of North American content it wants cars to have in order to avoid a tariff. → Read More
As Russia probe heats up, White House declares: We could fire Mueller if we want
The president is fuming after a police raid into his inner sanctum. Arms crossed, Donald Trump pointedly refused to rule out firing the special counsel now inching into his business ties. → Read More
80% Chance NAFTA Deal Will Be Reached Within A Month: Mexico
WASHINGTON — A rush to conclude a new NAFTA agreement could see negotiations spread this week across two continents and more than 5,600 kilometres in a spurt of non-stop bargaining. Officials return to the bargaining table Tuesday in Washington, and sources say the week could end with the politicians leading the talks — Chrystia Freeland, Ildefonso Guajardo, and Robert Lighthizer — meeting… → Read More
Martin Luther King: 50 years later, his mission not quite accomplished
Just across the street from the scene where Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered 50 years ago Wednesday, a woman has stood vigil, day after day, for several decades, protesting against the site becoming a museum. → Read More
The collusion scorecard: What we know so far about Trump-Russia contacts
WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump has tweeted no fewer than 17 times that his campaign did no... - Canada - Winnipeg Free Press. → Read More
How Cambridge Analytica’s billionaire bankroller got his big break from Canadian bilingualism
Robert Mercer is the 71-year-old funder of an assortment of right-wing causes, ranging from Cambridge Analytica to Breitbart News to Republican campaigns. The story of his wealth includes a breakthrough in the 1980s and Canadian bilingualism. → Read More
How Cambridge Analytica billionaire got his big break from Canadian bilingualism
WASHINGTON - The controversy over Facebook data gathering has a Canadian backstory far older than the adventures of the young whistleblower from British Columbia who worked for the contentious firm Cambridge Analytica. This story involves the firm's billionaire bankroller. → Read More