One of the biggest American manufacturers of protective medical gear went to bat for its Canadian customers on Friday, April 3, 2020, as it pushed back against a White House order to stop exporting its surgical-grade face masks — mission-critical armour in the war against COVID-19.

Canada is discouraging the United States from sending American soldiers to the border to intercept illegal migrants who could spread the COVID-19 contagion, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Thursday, March 26, 2020,

A chilling debate is unfolding in the virus-racked United States as President Donald Trump, desperate to reanimate his country's paralyzed economy, considers scaling back its COVID-19 defences and sending people back to work in a matter of weeks — just as the pandemic appears poised to erupt on American soil.

The federal Liberal government imposed its own limits on incoming flights from overseas on Friday, March 13, 2020, — nothing as severe as Donald Trump's ban on foreign nationals arriving from Europe, but enough to signal to the United States that it need not erect a viral firewall along the Canada-U.S. border.

U.S. President Donald Trump is slamming America's door on most foreign nationals who were recently in Europe — a drastic step in response to an accelerating global pandemic that, should it proceed, could pose a serious threat to commerce and travel between Canada and its largest trading partner.

A former Canadian Forces reservist at the centre of an alleged white-supremacist plot to trigger a race war in the United States pleaded not guilty to weapons charges on Tuesday, February 18, 2020, as his lawyer indicated he plans to use the First Amendment of the U.S. constitution to defend his client.

Jason Kenney opted to join Ontario counterpart Doug Ford in the Democratic doghouse on Saturday, February 8, 2020, as the Alberta premier vented his spleen about progressive presidential hopefuls who have vowed to block the controversial Keystone XL pipeline expansion.

President Donald Trump declared his scorched-earth political style an unmitigated success on Tuesday, February 4, 2020, in a fiercely partisan, made-for-TV state of the union speech that made it clear he expects to be back in the White House next year on the strength of the U.S. economy and his trade deals with Canada, Mexico and China.

President Donald Trump signed off on Wednesday, January 30, 2020, on the new road map for the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, clearing the way for the House of Commons to debate the merits of the next era of North American trade.

Donald Trump will usher in the start of a new era in continental trade today, January 29, 2020, when he signs into law the American road map for the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, a long-sought, hard-fought trilateral deal sure to play a role in the embattled president's bid for re-election.