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“So many decisions about technology are made without our consent,” she told the C2 Montreal conference. “We need to better understand the ethical constraints and moral implications of the technology we’re using. Our devices don’t necessarily work for us. They work for the manufacturers, they work for the advertisers. They are waiting to be compromised if we’re not careful."

Internal records from the Environmental Protection Agency reveal the agency had hired a Republican firm last December to “directly support” Administrator Scott Pruitt and senior EPA officials with “an aggressive style of campaign-style” media monitoring. Why?

U.S. President Donald Trump says Canada and Mexico are "spoiled" and difficult to deal with in NAFTA negotiations.

The Trump administration on Wednesday launched an investigation into whether tariffs are needed on the imports of automobiles into the United States, moving swiftly as talks over the North American Free Trade Agreement have stalled. President Donald Trump predicted earlier that U.S. automakers and auto workers would be "very happy" with the outcome of the NAFTA talks.

The United States declared the NAFTA countries were nowhere close to a deal in a statement on Thursday, May 17, 2018, designed to douse expectations that an agreement might be just a few minor adjustments away.

While threatened southern sea otters bob and sun in the gentle waves of this central California estuary, wildlife experts up and down the West Coast are struggling to figure out how to restore the crucial coastal predator to an undersea world that's falling apart in their absence.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will work the room at a business luncheon in Manhattan today, Thursday 17, 2018, on the merits of free trade and global economic co-operation, just as word starts to sink in that efforts to conclude NAFTA talks before the end of this week are likely to fail.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used New York University graduation speech Wednesday to criticize growth in identity politics.

The first North Atlantic right whale of the season has been spotted in waters off eastern Cape Breton amid concerns from fishermen that measures meant to protect the endangered mammals have led to increased fishing activity and greater risk.

President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau discussed the possibility on Monday, May 14, 2018, of immediately wrapping up a NAFTA deal despite signs of skepticism about whether that goal is feasible.

Officials have lifted an evacuation order on the city of Superior, Wisconsin where, one day earlier, an explosion at an oil refinery released black clouds of noxious smoke into the air, injuring 20 people and sending the 27,000 residents of the city fleeing. The explosion has residents of Burnaby questioning how our city would handle such a disaster.

A message allegedly posted by the accused in Toronto's deadly van attack is shedding light on a mostly male online community that an expert says endorses violent rhetoric against women.

Canada and the U.S. have had a testy exchange over the idea of including a termination clause in NAFTA, with this idea of a so-called sunset clause emerging as a late-stage sticking point in the negotiations.

Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt faces potentially make-or-break hearings on Thursday, April 26, 2018, on Capitol Hill, where he is expected to be peppered with questions about spending and ethics scandals that have triggered bipartisan calls for his ouster.

Three levels of Canadian government say they will oppose the latest attempt to open the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.