James McCarten
Washington correspondent, The Canadian Press
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At UN, Trump tees off on NAFTA, knocks Freeland, threatens tariffs
U.S. President Donald Trump let Canada know how he really feels on Wednesday, September 27, 2018, — sharpening his tariff threat, calling out Chrystia Freeland and claiming he denied Justin Trudeau a bilateral meeting, all because of the federal government's hard bargaining on North American trade.
Justin Trudeau's United Nations mission ends in a human-rights flourish
Justin Trudeau's United Nations mission ended in a human-rights flourish Wednesday as the prime minister formally added his name to a multilateral calling-out of Venezuela and mused openly about stripping the honorary Canadian status from Myanmar's de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.
Blasey Ford agrees to testify in dramatic Supreme Court confirmation showdown
When she first told a U.S. lawmaker her harrowing allegation of a 1982 high-school sexual assault at the hands of a prep-school kid now poised to become one of America's most powerful judges, she was just an anonymous psychology professor in California — and wanted to stay that way.
Trudeau says Canada wants to see 'movement' before signing revised NAFTA deal
Thirteen months is an "absolutely normal" time frame for a task as complex as modernizing North American trade, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Wednesday, September 19, 2018, as she notched another day on the road towards a new NAFTA deal with the United States and Mexico.
Freeland resumes NAFTA talks in Washington as Congress grows restless
Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland is back in Washington — and back in search of a way to bridge the divide that's keeping Canada out of a new North American free trade pact.
Presidential politics, sidelined by pandemic, poised for Trump-fuelled comeback
Donald Trump's re-election efforts appear to be showing new signs of life despite lingering concerns about whether the accelerated reopening in parts of the United States could prompt a second wave of the novel coronavirus.
First Nations tell U.S. to crack down on cross-border mine contaminants from Canada
In a city of pinstripes and partisan power brokers, Mike Allison sticks out like a sore thumb. He's in the wrong place — and he knows it.
Defaced, toppled statues rekindle debate over controversial symbols
Public anger over the police killing of George Floyd is unearthing difficult questions in the United States, Canada and around the world about statues, monuments and other permanent tributes to historical figures whose legacies include oppression, racism and cruelty.
Despite 'perfect storm' of U.S. discord, America's truths trump foreign fictions
The confluence of a pandemic, a raucous civil-rights movement, an economy on the brink and a stubborn, deeply divided electorate: experts call it a "perfect storm" of conditions in which to sow the seeds of disinformation and partisan strife in the United States.