“Canada – USA Tariff Wars”

Before President Trump returned to office, unleashing a trade war featuring special animus toward Canada, Michael Goldstein saw his Vancouver start-up as complementary to American interests.

His company, Accelovant, makes temperature sensors used to produce computer chips — the brains of modern manufacturing. Canada and the United States shared an interest in limiting their dependence on chip factories in Asia. He was supplying critical components, many of which were being made in the United States.

OTTAWA — Americans looking to tool around town on a brand new Can-Am Spyder will soon be out of luck.

The distinct Bombardier-built three-wheeled motorcycle, manufactured in rural Quebec, will be among the Canadian products banned by President Donald Trump White House on Tuesday — joining Canadian cheese, alcohol and agricultural products as the latest targets of the United States trade war against Canada.

Stelco Holdings Inc. said on Monday that it plans to idle part of its Hamilton plant in order to “ensure the survival” of the company, as U.S. tariffs squeeze its sales.

Stelco said the decision will impact up to 500 employees.

In a memo obtained by CBC News on Monday, the company said it will indefinitely idle its cold-rolled and coated operations at its Hamilton Works plant, with operations set to begin winding down on Oct. 9.

The United States and China released Monday reciprocal lists of products worth about US$30 billion each that will see tariff cuts, from American hair products to Chinese toys, in a deal expected to boost bilateral trade.

The details came days after Chinese President Xi Jinping met with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington in his first state visit to the U.S. since 2015. The U.S. had already reduced tariffs against China after Trump’s tariffs reached as high as 145 per cent at one point last year, as tensions between the two countries eased.

President Donald Trump’s ban on Canadian alcoholic beverages is set to take effect on Sept. 29. It covers a broad range of beer, wine and spirits. For Canadian producers, this is no small matter: in the 2024–25 fiscal year, we exported $1.4 billion in alcoholic beverages to the United States. That is a lot of business to put at risk.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Prime Minister Mark Carney has explained his push for a closer relationship with Europe in simple terms.

“Developing an alliance for the future with the European Union … is based on Canada becoming more sovereign,” he said last week at a press conference on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement that all 50 states will join his proposed drug-price lowering policy is leading Canadian pharmaceutical experts and international researchers to warn how prices could rise around the world.

On Sept. 18, Trump announced in the Oval Office that all state Medicaid programs for Americans with low incomes will benefit from lower prescription drug prices under agreements with pharmaceutical manufacturers to match the lowest prices paid by other developed nations.

“We went from paying the highest drug prices in the world to paying the lowest drug prices in the world,” Trump said about the intention of the new policy.

U.S. import bans on select Canadian items are set to take effect this week, the latest salvo between the two countries in an ongoing trade war.

The ban is set to come into effect on Tuesday at 12:01 a.m., and will see a full import ban on Canadian-made cheese and other dairy products, as well as alcoholic beverages and Canadian-made motorcycles.

It was an ideal summer to cut trees.

The weather in Maine’s Penobscot county – one of the most heavily forested counties in a state dense with trees – was warm and dry. Yet even as the county’s wood had grown to an ideal size to harvest, the machines Molly London typically uses sat idle.

London and her husband, Alex, who started a logging business nearly 10 years ago, had been waiting weeks for replacement machine parts that were no longer stocked locally because tariffs had made them too expensive.

By August, she and her husband decided to shut down their business, WW London Woodlot Management Company, exhausted after years of fighting ever-climbing costs.