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The Problem Corporate-dominated trade deals Corporate-driven free trade agreements have distorted global trade and investment relationships over the past 40 years – including in North America. The…

Date: June 25, 2026Time: 12 to 1:30 p.m. ET

Central bank independence has been a sacred cow for the last generation in the major capitalist economies. Donald Trump’s appointment of Kevin Warsh as Fed chair symbolizes the beginning of a new era ...

What Trump and the Democrats agree about the future of North American trade

Trade Fetishism argues that “trade” not only meets material goals, but also simultaneously works as a fantasy that seeks to satisfy and soothe our unconscious desires and anxieties. Countering the ide...

Prime Minister Carney can be pleased with the results of his first official visit to China. Through a temporary trade truce, and a list of political, economic and cultural MOUs, the federal government...

As discord and uncertainty continue to characterize the global order, the renewal of multilateral cooperation on climate change proved an uphill battle at COP30 in Brazil, which took place in the Amaz...

With the weight of the U.S. trade war challenging key export industries, Prime Minister Mark Carney and his ministers have set up camp in Washington, D.C., hoping to convince President Trump to reduce tariffs on imported Canadian steel, aluminum, lum

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With the weight of the U.S. trade war challenging key export industries, Prime Minister Mark Carney and his ministers have set up camp in Washington, D.C., hoping to convince President Trump to reduce tariffs on imported Canadian steel, aluminum, lum

Number of tariff-free vehicles the automakers can sell in Canada will be reduced, government source says

Ripples is a public art series along the Arbutus Greenway (between Fir and Burrard St.) in Vancouver. Join us for a tour led by the artist!

Ripples is an upcoming project from artist Sydney Hart, curator Christine D’Onofrio, researcher Gavin Fridell, and the Global Reporting Centre. The project, which consists of five consecutive billboar...

Lots of things are more expensive, but coffee is irreplaceable. So Americans are eating the price hikes—and reserving the right to rant.

As the Trumpocalypse lays waste to what was left of the rules-based international trading order, countries are under pressure to diversify their trade relationships. In that sense alone, the Canada-In...

Podcast Episode · Proof · 08/14/2025 · 51m

Political scientist Gavin Fridell discusses the latest developments in the trade war.

Almost five years after Canada’s July 2020 ban on importing goods produced using forced labour, we have very little to show for it. Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) reports that roughly 50 shipm...

Not so long ago, Canada could build big, quickly and at reasonable cost

President Donald Trump’s chaotic tariff fiasco angered everyone from Democrats to Trump’s billionaire friends. Now some people are suggesting that we go back...

Political economist Gavin Fridell says the trade breakthrough between China and U.S. may benefit Canada in negotiations with the U.S.

One way CanadIian Prime Minister Mark Carney can respond to Trump’s trade war is by importing low-cost Chinese EVs.

Stuart Trew, and international trade policy expert, tells CTV News that Prime Minister Mark Carney ‘has some leverage’ going into this meeting.

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The government will partially exempt automakers from countermeasure tariffs, based on their Canadian production and planned investments

The Trump administration has cut programs that help prevent forced labor and child labor. This will suppress wages everywhere, including the U.S.

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Export industries are critical, writes Jim Stanford, but almost 80 per cent of what we produce is by Canadians, for Canadians and never crosses a border.

Roasters such as Lavazza, Illy, Nestle and Douwe Egberts maker JDE Peet’s are currently in talks with retailers about passing on costs from a near doubling of arabica coffee prices over the past year,...

Despite a shortage of physicians, Canada still struggles with the question of whether a doctor licensed in one province should be automatically qualified to practice in others.

India plans to scrap a contentious tax of 6% on digital advertisements that primarily affected U.S. tech giants such as Alphabet's Google, Meta and Amazon , aiming to ease U.S. concerns and advance a trade pact.

Trump’s hand-picked lobbyists made millions helping big corporations get out of tariffs – while small businesses got crushed.

Faced with both a trade war and annexation threats, Canada must confront whether its domestic food systems can feed its population in a crisis.