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One of the biggest American manufacturers of protective medical gear went to bat for its Canadian customers on Friday, April 3, 2020, as it pushed back against a White House order to stop exporting its surgical-grade face masks — mission-critical armour in the war against COVID-19.

President Donald Trump is poised to roll back ambitious Obama-era vehicle mileage standards and raise the ceiling on damaging fossil fuel emissions for years to come, gutting one of the United States' biggest efforts against climate change.

An Ottawa woman stranded at sea for more than a week on a cruise ship where four passengers have died said on Monday, March 30, 2020, she's "had it" after being moved to another ship that's en route to Florida.

The unrelenting climb in COVID-19 cases in Canada continued on Thursday, March 26, 2020, amid tightening restrictions aimed at curbing the pandemic as experts warned against prescribing or using unproven cures for the disease that has killed 39 people and infected close to 4,000 others.

Canada is discouraging the United States from sending American soldiers to the border to intercept illegal migrants who could spread the COVID-19 contagion, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Thursday, March 26, 2020,

A chilling debate is unfolding in the virus-racked United States as President Donald Trump, desperate to reanimate his country's paralyzed economy, considers scaling back its COVID-19 defences and sending people back to work in a matter of weeks — just as the pandemic appears poised to erupt on American soil.

They approved pipelines and gold mines while attacking science as the death toll rises from the novel coronavirus and mass layoffs begin.

Refugee 613 says it is like “letting fear drive policy,” as it did when ethnic Japanese were detained during the Second World War. But Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he was comfortable it fits with Canadian values.

"In both our countries, we're encouraging people to stay home. We're telling our citizens not to visit their neighbours if they don't absolutely have to," Trudeau said Wednesday.

Airlines can apply reasonable grounds to deny boarding to travellers for reasons of health or safety. But Canadians who are sick and show up at the Canada-U.S. land border 'will of course be allowed into the country,' said Bill Blair on Tuesday.

“As the virus continues to spread, we’ve decided to take increasingly aggressive steps to keep you and your family safe,” Trudeau said Monday outside his residence in Ottawa.

The federal Liberal government imposed its own limits on incoming flights from overseas on Friday, March 13, 2020, — nothing as severe as Donald Trump's ban on foreign nationals arriving from Europe, but enough to signal to the United States that it need not erect a viral firewall along the Canada-U.S. border.

U.S. President Donald Trump is slamming America's door on most foreign nationals who were recently in Europe — a drastic step in response to an accelerating global pandemic that, should it proceed, could pose a serious threat to commerce and travel between Canada and its largest trading partner.

The Bahamas Petroleum Company hopes to start drilling the first well, just 150 miles off the coast of South Florida, as soon as April.

Climate lobbying watchdog claims US oil giant met EC officials in run-up to policy