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Donald Trump launched a Twitter war of a different sort on Thursday, May 28, 2020, picking a fight with the online platforms that helped to shape his political career — a feud that, should it escalate, could curtail free speech in the United States and even run afoul of North America's new trade pact.

Billions of dollars in lawsuits will likely result if Joe Biden is elected U.S. president this November and carries out a threat to cancel the presidential permit allowing operation of the Keystone XL pipeline, Canadian observers say.

Joe Biden's campaign lobbed a spanner into Alberta's post-pandemic economic recovery strategy on Monday, May 18, 2020, with a promise to rip up U.S. President Donald Trump's approvals for the Keystone XL pipeline if the former vice-president succeeds in taking over the White House next year.

Canada and the United States are both "very comfortable" with their mutual ban on non-essential cross-border travel, but Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland won't say if the Americans want to extend the restrictions beyond June 21.

Canada is not yet prepared to confront the challenges inherent in reopening the shared border with the United States, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Wednesday, May 13, 2020, stopping short of confirming that a ban on non-essential travel will be extended to June 21.

The federal government is planning stronger measures to deal with a looming influx of people arriving from the United States, a clear sign Canada is bracing for the realities of life after lockdown while living next door to the world's largest COVID-19 hotspot.

If it’s not President Donald Trump’s incoherent press conferences, where recently he seemed to suggest injecting disinfectant might cure you of COVID-19, or his repeated claims the pandemic is under control while the body count mounts alarmingly, then it’s the far-right, some of them armed with assault rifles, storming the state capitols.

When researchers compare shopping online to shopping at a brick-and-mortar outlet, what they’re mainly talking about is the so-called “last-mile problem.”

Revealed: Oil and mining firms – some with ties to Trump officials – taking advantage of funding, review shows

The federal government has betrayed Canada's dairy processors by allowing the United States to activate the new North American trade deal on July 1 — a month earlier than the industry was expecting, the Opposition leader in the Senate said on Tuesday, April 28, 2020.

Canada will be watching the United States closely for teachable moments in the coming weeks, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Thursday, April 23, 2020, as regional leaders in both countries began taking tentative steps along the road to recovery in an unfamiliar new post-pandemic era.

The partisan cracks in America's collective effort to combat COVID-19 are growing wider by the day — growing, some say, not due to grassroots sentiment but by political forces both within and outside the United States.

Half a million clean energy workers could lose their jobs by the end of June, according to a new analysis.

Canadian officials acknowledged some regions of the country could be closer to re-opening parts of the economy than others, but continued to stress a careful approach as the border closure with the hard-hit United States was extended for another 30 days during the COVID-19 crisis.

Canada has extended its border closure with the United States for 30 days.