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The Canadian dollar climbed above 70 cents U.S. early Wednesday with the immediate threat of a trade war on hold for the next month.

Almost every day since the expansion of Canada’s Trans Mountain pipeline was completed in May, a tanker laden with oilsands crude shipped through the line has passed under Vancouver’s Lions Gate Bridge en route to refineries around the Pacific.

illegal immigrants in the US has once again highlighted how well-to-do Indians spend big money for illegally entering the US from Mexico and Canada borders. With lax policies regarding illegal immigrants in the US under the previous administration, human trafficking had turned into business that spawned mega bucks. A large number of Indians, mostly from Punjab and Gujarat, making a beeline for the US through a Latin American country and then Mexico, or crossing over from Canada, points at the well-oiled trafficking business that attracts thousands of well-paying clients every month. Since Trump won the US Presidential elections last year, this big business has seen a sudden slump. What is the "donkey route"?

President Donald Trump imposed broad tariffs on China on Tuesday, while tariff threats hang over other major trading partners like Canada, the European Union and Mexico.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. On the night before he was sworn in for his second term, Donald Trump stood at a raucous victory rally and sent a special shoutout to a 54-year-old Swiss lawyer in the stands. He referred to him simply as Gianni, and Trump wanted to express his gratitude.

A sweeping new U.S. tariff on products made in China is expected to increase the prices American consumers pay for a wide array of products

President Donald Trump’s threats to impose 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada have left many cities along Mexico's northern border in limbo

cryptocurrency market remained highly volatile as Bitcoin experienced another sharp price swing. On Monday, Bitcoin dropped below $92,000 after US President Donald Trump announced plans to impose significant tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico, and China, triggering panic among investors. However, Bitcoin rebounded on Tuesday after the US halted planned tariffs on Canada and Mexico, easing global trade war concerns. As of 11:14 am, Bitcoin was trading at $99,222 after hitting a day's high of $102,514.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The world is still to recover from the shock of US tariffs (held temporarily) on Canada, Mexico and China, their retaliatory moves and the risk of American tariffs on other trading partners. America runs trade deficits with about 100 countries.

A Quebec furniture manufacturer says the threat of U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods has forced it to lay off 115 people in the province.

The bank said 51% of its 4,233 respondents named inflation and tariffs together as the top potential developments likely to dominate markets this year. Last year, inflation was also a top concern, but only for 27% of the interviewees.

One person is dead and nine others were taken into the custody of the Canada Border Services Agency this week following two separate incursion incidents near Alberta’s border with the United States.

Canada’s mortgage market is reacting to fears this week that United States President Donald Trump’s threatened tariffs could deliver a sharp blow to the Canadian economy.

RCMP has released video of an interception of migrants illegally entering Canada from the United States as Ottawa ramps up border security amid growing pressure from the new Trump administration.Aerial video first shared with Global News on Wednesday was taken from a surveillance aircraft as Mounties stopped the migrants near the Emerson border crossing in Manitoba last month.The video shows thermal imaging of six people who were arrested crossing the border illegally in the middle of the night on Jan. 14.The individuals are seen running into a wooded area, followed shortly afterward by RCMP officers who arrived in ground vehicles.“With the RCMP plane directing officers on the ground, all six were arrested without incident and transferred to the CBSA (Canada Border Services Agency),” RCMP Assistant Commissioner Lisa Moreland, the northwest regional commander of federal policing, said at a press conference in Edmonton on Wednesday.“To anyone who is thinking about crossing the border (illegally), don’t.

Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff for policy, breaks down President Donald Trump's tariffs on ‘Kudlow.’

Liberal leadership contenders Mark Carney and Chrystia Freeland want Canada to look beyond the United States to bolster its roster of trade partners amid ongoing tariff threats from President Donald Trump.

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., breaks down how President Donald Trump’s tariff policies are addressing the fentanyl crisis and explains his subpoena for information on the COVID vaccine on ‘The Bottom Line.’

For years, Canada’s technology community has called on Ottawa to do more to boost innovation and productivity and attract capital to the country.

It could be true, as Conrad Black wrote in his latest National Post column, that United States President Donald Trump’s tariff attacks on Canada and Mexico are nothing more than a game. “Trump is just playing poker,” claimed Black. That view of Trump’s tariff strategy seemed briefly plausible late Monday with the news that imposition of the tariffs would be postponed for a month.