Justin Trudeau keeps insisting the Trans-Mountain expansion will be built. But judging by his meetings this week with the country’s feuding NDP premiers, the prime minister now seems more comfortable with the one who’s not on his side.
NAFTA talks moving slowly now, sources say
After two weeks of what Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland described as “intense” NAFTA negotiations, she is returning to Canada for a break from the talks without a new deal in hand.
Obama calls Trump ‘a symptom, not the cause’ of U.S. division and polarization
Former U.S. president Barack Obama says his successor, Donald Trump, is “a symptom, not the cause” of division and polarization in the U.S.
Scotiabank walks away from consumer dispute watchdog OBSI
The Bank of Nova Scotia will no longer use an independent banking watchdog to mediate disputes with its customers, leaving just two of Canada’s five big banks under the umbrella of the agency known as OBSI.
Tesla turmoil on day Musk smokes pot during webcast
Tesla Inc. chief executive Elon Musk was filmed smoking marijuana, drinking whisky and wielding a sword just hours before the automaker said its accounting chief would leave after a one-month stint, the latest in a string of unusual behaviour and executive departures that have stunned investors.
Canada loses 51,600 jobs in August, pushing up unemployment rate
Canada’s seesawing employment report posted particularly volatile numbers last month that showed big, mid-summer gains had essentially been wiped out by August.
Nike’s Colin Kaepernick campaign a sign big brands think the future is liberal: Don Pittis
Wearing your politics on your sleeve — or your feet — is becoming increasingly difficult as a number of big American brands divorce themselves from Trump-style politics.
Giuliani says Trump will not answer obstruction questions from Mueller
U.S. President Donald Trump will not answer federal investigators’ questions, in writing or in person, about whether he tried to block the probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election, one of the president’s attorneys told The Associated Press.
Freeland returning to NAFTA talks Friday in quest for compromise
Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland will return to the NAFTA negotiating table in Washington on Friday, working toward a compromise in ongoing talks that she described as “productive” and “constructive.”
Burt Reynolds, Deliverance and Boogie Nights actor, dead at 82
Burt Reynolds, whose good looks and charm made him one of Hollywood’s most popular actors as he starred in films such as Deliverance,The Longest Yard and Smokey and the Bandit in the 1970s and ’80s, died on Thursday the age of 82.