James McCarten
Washington correspondent, The Canadian Press
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In wake of GM cuts, Trump fires back: don't move production to China, or else
Donald Trump tweeted a warning shot across GM's front bumper on Tuesday, November 27, 2018, threatening to pull all U.S. subsidies for America's largest automaker if its plans to slash jobs and production at North American plants prove to be a precursor to building interconnected electric cars in China.
GM job cuts, closures not a symptom of Trump's trade agenda, analysts say
Donald Trump's tariff battles with Canada, Mexico, China and Europe have inflated the cost of steel, making it more expensive to build cars in North America, but General Motors' decision to close factories and lay off thousands of people is more about tactics than the balance sheet, say trade observers and automotive industry experts.
Group of U.S. senators urge Trump to expedite congressional vote on USMCA
A group of U.S. senators is pushing President Donald Trump to fast-track the final text of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement so Congress can vote on it before the end of the year — a notion that stretches credulity for lawmakers and observers on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border.
Don't sign USMCA until LGBTQ language excised, U.S. lawmakers urge Trump
Canada's fraught new trade pact with the United States and Mexico is facing a new challenge: a group of conservative U.S. lawmakers who say its language on sexual orientation and gender identity is inappropriate and an affront to national sovereignty.
Experts warn of economic uncertainty until USMCA ratified; Dems cast doubts
Economic uncertainty will linger across North America unless and until a divided Congress approves the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, trade lawyers from both countries predicted Wednesday as newly emboldened Democrats on Capitol Hill vowed not to rubber-stamp the deal.
Fear of constitutional crisis escalates in U.S.; Canadians can relate
The prospect of a constitutional crisis is familiar to Canadians, one that triggers feelings of dread, fear and no small measure of loathing — and now perhaps pity for the United States, which some say Donald Trump is leading towards a constitutional crisis of its own.
Canada hoping to solve U.S. tariff dispute by G20 meetings at month's end: PM
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is setting his sights on the end of the month as the next target date for reaching a trade-and-tariff detente with the United States.
Bizarro world: Midterms offer little clarity on fate of USMCA, tariff dispute
If the midterm elections were supposed to wipe clear the uncertainty of tariffs, trade and other smudges on the window into Canada-U.S. affairs, well, have a look at the bizarro world of politics in the United States of America.
Accosting Acosta: will president pay political price for banning CNN reporter?
One dramatic White House expulsion might have gotten much of the attention on Thursday, November 8, 2018, but there's been another that free-speech advocates say must not be ignored: the banning of CNN reporter Jim Acosta.
Canada could ratify new NAFTA even if U.S. tariffs stay put: Trudeau
Canada might ratify its new North American trade deal with the United States and Mexico even if the U.S. doesn't drop its tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says.