U.S. President Donald Trump says he will slap a 25 per cent tariff on medium and heavy-duty truck imports, an announcement that comes just a day before he meets with Prime Minister Mark Carney.
Trump made the announcement in a post on his social media platform Truth Social saying the new tariff rate will begin Nov. 1.
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Liberal MP Pauline Rochefort is sponsoring the new petition in Parliament. It calls for the creation of an "Independent Military Honours Review Board to review Afghanistan veterans' cases" to determine whether any of them meet the bar for the Victoria Cross.
The earliest that flight attendants could potentially walk off the job is Saturday at 12:01 a.m. ET.
The federal Liberals are in the midst of consultations on the upcoming 2025 budget. While federal budgets typically are tabled in the spring, this one is set to land during the fall session of Parliament.
RBC senior economist Claire Fan says the effective tariff rate is an average of the import duties paid on goods heading to the United States that accounts for exemptions tied to the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement.
Relief is coming first for southern British Columbia, where a multi-day heat wave is expected to end on Tuesday.
China's Ministry of Commerce published the details of the plan on Tuesday, claiming the "dumping" of Canadian canola into the Chinese market is hurting its domestic canola oil market.