Day: March 8, 2025

ICYMI: Comments come as Trump vows to dramatically downsize government, including with mass firings of federal employees

Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau has scrambled to convince Donald Trump to lift tariffs on his country, which together with Mexico and China is one of the US’s largest trading partners.

That effort included a phone call between the two leaders on Wednesday, which appears to have had some effect – on Thursday, Trump exempted Canada from some of the tariffs he had imposed, along with Mexico.

Trudeau responded Tuesday by placing tariffs on the US, and he questioned whether further negotiations would make any difference, accusing Trump of acting in “bad faith.” The two leaders eventually spoke Wednesday morning, an exchange Trump said ended in a “somewhat” friendly manner. A person familiar with the matter said the call grew heated and included profanity. Continue reading…
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Liberal leadership hopeful Gould says that harassment has worsened, particularly on social media and through threats to her constituency office.
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Documents indicate as much as 100,000 litres of diesel fuel leaked from a storage tank at an Irving truck stop in New Brunswick late last year.
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Toronto Police say they were at a loss for words when they viewed the security camera footage that captured a horrific mass shooting at an Ontario pub Friday.
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Police say suspects are male, with one in a black balaclava seen fleeing the scene at the Piper Arms in a silver car

Three suspects are at large after a mass shooting at the opening night of a pub in Toronto that left a dozen people injured, Canadian police say.

The shooting at the Piper Arms pub near Scarborough town centre in eastern Toronto happened at 22:39pm on Friday local time (03:39 GMT). Continue reading…
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