Dan Karpenchuk
WBFO Canada Correspondent-
US President Donald Trump has again floated the idea of Canada becoming the fifty-first state. He says he wants that due to his unsubstantiated claim that the US is paying 200 billion dollars a year to Canada. As recently as a couple of days ago, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a Canada-US economic summit that he takes Trump’s notion seriously. The summit, held in Toronto, was aimed at bolstering the Canadian economy in the face of continued threats from Washington.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will host a Canada-US economic summit today (Friday, February 7th, 2025) in Toronto. The meeting comes on the heels of President Donald Trump pausing threatened tariffs for a month.
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Amazon has denied there was any link between the closure of seven Quebec warehouses last month and the unionization of 250 employees at a facility in the city of Laval. They said it wanted to return to a third-party model, supported by small local businesses. Amazon said about two thousand people would be affected by the decision.
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President Donald Trump has given Canada and Mexico a one-month reprieve from punishing tariffs that were to go into effect today (Tuesday, Feb 4th, 2025)
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This past weekend, as promised, President Donald Trump unleashed devastating tariffs against Canada and Mexico. China, too, was hit, but not as hard. The tariffs will come into effect on Tuesday. Canada is retaliating with tariffs of its own against US products. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada has no choice.
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Just one day before President Donald Trump imposes punishing 25 percent tariffs on Canadian and Mexican products entering the US, Canada continues a diplomatic offensive, with federal cabinet ministers and other leaders trying to convince the Trump administration that tariffs are a bad idea and would hurt both countries.
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Voters in Ontario will go to the polls for a provincial election at the end of February. Premier Doug Ford has confirmed that he will officially call the election on Wednesday. It will come more than a year before the fixed election date set for June of next year. Ford says he wants a strong mandate from the people of Ontario to spend the money needed to fight the tariffs threatened by US President Donald Trump.
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The online retail giant, Amazon, has announced the closing of all its warehouses in Quebec. The company says the move is part of a reorganization and a cost-cutting measure. One Amazon spokesperson says it has nothing to do with the unionization of a couple of hundred employees in Laval, Quebec, last spring.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has renewed his warning to President Donald Trump that if he goes ahead and levels tariffs, Canada will push back. The President didn’t mention tariffs during his inauguration address but later in the Oval Office, he suggested that he would implement tariffs against Canada and Mexico, likely on February 1st. Canadian leaders continue to stress that a partnership is the best course for both countries.
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There was almost an audible sigh of relief coming out of Ottawa after Donald Trump, during his inauguration, didn’t mention specific tariffs against Canada…for now.