Tag: Ontario

  • Auto Impasse

    Automotive rules have become the rock on which a Canada-U.S. trade deal keeps foundering, with Washington demanding an end to Canadian auto retaliation, Ottawa chasing relief from a 25 percent vehicle tariff, and an Ontario assembly plant hanging in the balance. WASHINGTON, August 18, 2026 If the last minute negotiations to head off Wednesday’s 50…

  • Provinces Brace

    Quebec convened emergency sector meetings, Ontario refused to restock American whisky, and federal ministers briefed their provincial counterparts as a 50 per cent tariff deadline exposed the seams in Canada’s negotiating coalition. MONTREAL, Aug. 14, 2026 Quebec Premier Christine Fréchette spent Thursday in a Montreal boardroom with the province’s leading economic stakeholders, working through a…