According to Statistics Canada, unemployment saw a surprising jump 6.8 per cent in November — which has driven the loonie down to just shy of its weakest level this year. Mackenzie Gray dives into the new stats and what they could mean for next week's Bank of Canada interest rate announcement.
Trump has not yet spoken with Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer since taking office on Monday
Minnesota retiree Joe Solmon is spending his morning browsing The Trump Store, looking for a new MAGA hat to add to his vast collection of Donald Trump-inspired clothing."I do have 14 Trump hats. I have 34 Trump T-shirts. I have seven Trump sweatshirts," he says with a grin.Business has been booming at this store in Lake Park, Minn., ever since Trump was elected U.S. president in November — and it was even busier heading into this week's inauguration events and watch parties. About a three-hour
(Bloomberg) -- Some steelmakers in Canada and Mexico are telling customers that they are refusing new orders to the US on concerns that President Donald Trump soon will reimpose duties.Most Read from BloombergWhat Happened to Hanging Out on the Street?Vienna Embraces Heat Pumps to Ditch Russian GasBillionaire Developer Caruso Slams LA Leadership Over WildfiresHow Sanctuary Cities Are Preparing for Another Showdown With TrumpHoboken PATH Station Will Close for Almost a Month on Jan. 30Canada’s St
The president may find himself unable to escape responsibility, warned the newspaper’s conservative editorial board.
How do place names get made and then changed? There’s a process. But it involves people as well as bureaucracy, so it’s not simple or quick, as President Trump is about to find out.
A fence has gone up near the U.S.-Canada border, but it's nothing like the wall Trump has envisioned, and it didn't come at his request. The unguarded, black chain-link fence was erected on the Canadian side of a Point Roberts park in Washington state on Jan. 16.The fence, roughly 30 metres long, is at the end of English Bluff Road in Tsawwassen, B.C., a community within the City of Delta, a suburb of Vancouver.Washington's Monument Park, which has grassy space that extends across the border int
Mike Johnson’s office urged Republicans against subpoenaing a key Jan. 6 Committee witness so “sexually explicit” texts GOP lawmakers sent her would remain under wraps, a report alleged Thursday. The witness in question is Cassidy Hutchinson, a 28-year-old former White House aide from Donald Trump’s first term who gave explosive testimony to the committee about his actions leading up to Jan. 6, 2021. Trump’s return to power has Republicans clamoring to seek retribution against political foes who
A ketchup giant is seeing red after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau brought up its past exit from Canada while discussing a potential Canada-U.S. trade war.Speaking with reporters after a Wednesday meeting with the premiers, Trudeau urged consumers to seek out Canadian-made products to avoid U.S. imports that could soon be more costly because of retaliatory tariffs."That's why we will look, as we have in the past, at things that have replacements for Canadian consumers that wouldn't be tariffed,"
Our neighbors to the north made it clear on social media that they would rather not join the U.S.
Jack Schlossberg said there is "nothing heroic" about the president's order to release classified documents about the 1963 assassination.
President Donald Trump fired the highest-ranking woman in the military while at a ball celebrating his role as commander in chief. The Coast Guard commandant, Admiral Linda L. Fagan, was the first female uniformed leader of a branch of the armed forces. Fagan learned she had been fired while waiting to take a photo with Trump at the Commander in Chief Ball on Inauguration Day, The New York Times reported.
The president gave no notice to Congress of the firings as required by law.
Commemorative items included in goodie bags that President Donald Trump gave his VIP inauguration guests are being sold online for extortionate amounts less than a week after the ceremony. A gift bag presented to Trump’s personal guests on Monday included a special edition bottle of his favorite beverage, Diet Coke, Page Six reported. Other items taken home by Trump’s nearest and dearest included a commemorative medal on a wooden stand embossed with the faces of Trump and his vice president, JD
The Pentagon signaled earlier this week that Air Force C-17s could be used to fly deportation flights. That's happening now.
Billionaire DOGE director Elon Musk has lost favor among President Donald Trump’s allies after publicly trashing a $500 billion artificial intelligence venture. Unveiled by President Trump on Tuesday as “Stargate,” the venture aims to supercharge the country’s artificial intelligence infrastructure with the help of tech giants OpenAI, Softbank and Oracle—at no cost to the government, according to Trump. However, in a flurry of X posts on Wednesday, Musk torched the terms of the deal and attacked
Donald Trump’s Department of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth narrowly won Senate confirmation Friday night, in the face of damning charges of sexual abuse and alcohol-induced debauchery. It took newly inaugurated Vice President JD Vance rushing to the Senate floor to cast a tie-breaking vote to salvage Hegseth’s nomination after former Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell cast a stunning “no” vote against Hegseth, calling out Trump’s strong-arm tactics. The vote against Trump, whom McConnell openly su
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump used an address Thursday to the World Economic Forum to promise global elites lower taxes if they bring manufacturing to the U.S. and threatened to impose tariffs if they don’t.
Some presidents are considered great, others are not. What are the factors that make a difference?
“Society doesn’t allow women of color to be vulnerable at work,” she wrote in a Vanity Fair essay.
Singer-songwriter Jewel is seemingly walking back her appearance at RFK Jr.‘s inaugural Make American Heathy Again ball after receiving harsh criticism from her fanbase. The musician took to Instagram to apologize after her rendition of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”—which, given the song’s context, was a real missed opportunity for Dr. Oz—at the event Monday night during President Donald Trump’s inauguration festivities in Washington, D.C. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s nominee to lead the U.S. Department
