Author: Blazingcatfur

Authorities in the United States have offered a $10m reward for information that leads to the arrest of a Canadian former Olympic snowboarder-turned-international drug kingpin.

Police in Los Angeles said on Thursday that Ryan Wedding – also known as “El Jefe”, “Giant” and “Public Enemy” – is wanted for his role in a billion-dollar cross-border drug trafficking operation and for several homicides linked to his drug sprawling network.

Wedding, who the FBI said is one of the US’s top 10 most-wanted fugitives, is probably hiding in Mexico under the protection of the Sinaloa drug cartel, officials said.

From pants to pasta, even your cross-border shopping trip is now subject to 25 per cent tariffs.

Canadian border officers have started slapping a 25 per cent surtax — in addition to applicable duties — on most items from the U.S. that Windsorites and other border residents have crossed with for decades.

When the United States signed a free-trade agreement with Canada and Mexico more than 30 years ago, the premise was that partnering with two other thriving economies would also benefit America.

This week, President Trump abruptly scrapped that idea. He imposed a sweeping 25 percent tariff on Tuesday on the roughly $1 trillion of imports that Mexico and Canada send into the United States each year as part of that North American trade pact — before quickly walking them back. On Thursday, the president signed executive orders that paused the tariffs on Canada and Mexico for a period of one month for goods that trade under the rules of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which is most trade in North America.

It’s not yet clear what will happen after that. But if the tariffs go into effect, they are expected to significantly raise costs for Canadian and Mexican exports, undermining their economies and likely tipping them into recession.