Goodyear Canada is planning to spend more than $575 million to expand and modernize an eastern Ontario plant to produce electric vehicle and all-terrain tires and make its processes more energy efficient. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says companies like Goodyear are investing because of the country’s ambitious workforce. (Aug. 12, 2024)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is cracking down on cheap products sold out of China by companies such as Temu and Shein by saying that companies are no longer exempt from tariffs simply by shipping goods that they claim to be worth less than $800.
Russian officials and managers are perplexed by President Vladimir Putin's surprise threat to limit exports of strategic commodities in response to Western sanctions, and wonder if it can be realised without hurting Russia more than the West. Putin made the suggestion 23 minutes into a routine government meeting on Wednesday, asking Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin to come up with some ideas that would not harm Russia's interests. Yet many of Russia's commodities such as oil, gas, nickel, titanium, gold and diamonds are already subject to various levels of voluntary or mandatory import restrictions or even bans imposed by the West itself.
BEIJING (Reuters) -Beijing, as a vote on EU duties on China-made electric vehicles looms, employed a carrot-and-stick approach to deal with the 27-strong bloc, threatening trade retaliation while cajoling key EU states into one-on-one talks on deals and investments. European Union members such as Germany, Finland and Sweden that have not pushed for the tariffs would feel less impact, with little exposure to the export items singled out by China. China's tactics appear to be working.
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Saturday said Kyiv could be reduced to a "giant melted spot" if Western nationals allow Ukraine to use long-range weapons to attack Russia.
CBC's Linda Ward looks at what travellers can do if they've booked a flight with Air Canada ahead of a possible pilots' strike.
Canada's Health Minister Mark Holland says he wants to sign pharmacare agreements with all provinces and territories so medication can get to people as quickly as possible. Joe Scarpelli has the details and more in Health Matters for Sept. 13, 2024.
OTTAWA — On Monday Parliamentarians will return to the familiar stone walls of West Block in Ottawa to find the political landscape has shifted significantly.
An Ottawa fire crew is warming the hearts of community members after rescuing several dogs and reviving one that had lost all vital signs at the scene of a basement fire in the city's south side.
Six moderate House Republicans signed on to a bipartisan letter spearheaded by centrists pledging to respect the results of the 2024 election. The “unity commitment” released Friday is led by Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) and Don Bacon (R-Neb.) and has the support of 32 House members. By signing the letter, members pledge — after “all legal…
Hundreds of posters have appeared on billboards across Italy this summer, bearing the slogan: “Russia is not our enemy” and depicting a handshake in the colors of the Italian and Russian flags.
TORONTO — BMO Financial Group says it has won the reversal of a 2022 jury verdict against the bank in a lawsuit related to a Ponzi scheme in the United States.
Chinese regulators on Friday hit PwC's auditing unit in mainland China with a six-month business suspension and a record fine of 441 million yuan ($62 million) over the firm's audit of troubled property developer China Evergrande Group. Chinese authorities have been examining PwC's role in the accounting of Evergrande's Hengda Real Estate since the securities regulator accused the developer in March of a $78-billion fraud over a period of two years through 2020.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration on Friday asked an appeals court to revive a Trump-era rule that lifted remaining Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves in the U.S.
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The United States is not planning to announce any new policy on Ukraine and the use of long-range missiles on Friday, the White House said. "There is no change to our view on the provision of long range strike capabilities for Ukraine to use inside of Russia," White House national security spokesman John Kirby told reporters. "I would not expect any major announcement in that regard," from discussions between U.S. President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday, Kirby said.
The House GOP’s inability to coalesce around a strategy to address a looming government funding deadline is sparking a blame game among Republicans, after opposition from multiple factions helped thwart Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) strategy to avert a shutdown at the end of the month. Grappling with his razor-thin House majority, Johnson opted to try…
LONDON (AP) — A judge on Friday rejected plans for the United Kingdom’s first new coal mine in three decades, delivering a victory for climate groups who challenged the project's claim it would have zero impact on global emissions.
Weaker-than-expected demand is set to tip the oil market into a surplus over the next five quarters, Macquarie said in a Friday note
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Thousands of people attended an anti-government rally organized by Poland's nationalist conservative opposition party to boost support before next year's presidential election. Law and Justice leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski called on supporters to be active at social and political levels and to back the party’s candidate in next year’s presidential election. Kaczynski also accused the pro-European Union government of acting against the nation’s interests and violating its laws and cited recently opened investigations into allegations of mismanagement and corruption of the Law and Justice government.
