US midterm results could delay new trade deal into 2020, watchers warn
Canadians are inspecting the new U.S. political landscape following midterm election results that many believe have added fresh trade-related uncertainty.
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Big oil spilled big bucks into defeating Washington carbon fee vote
While Tuesday’s election dominated the news, a key climate vote ended in a triumph for big oil.
Michigan's new attorney general wants to shake up the Flint water crisis investigation
Throughout the campaign Dana Nessel signaled that she wanted a fresh start for the investigation that began nearly three years ago into the Flint water crisis.
Canada could ratify new NAFTA even if U.S. tariffs stay put: Trudeau
Canada might ratify its new North American trade deal with the United States and Mexico even if the U.S. doesn't drop its tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says.
Expats watch U.S. midterms unfold at viewing parties across Canada
American expatriates and political junkies crowded a university library, pubs and other venues across Canada on Tuesday, November 5, 2018, to watch the incoming results of the crucial U.S. midterm congressional elections, viewed by a deeply polarized electorate as a referendum on President Donald Trump.
Democrats come on strong in House races, but Republicans make Senate inroads
Democratic candidates buoyed by widespread opposition to Donald Trump seized the balance of power on Capitol Hill, but Tuesday's U.S. midterm elections failed to produce what critics had hoped would be an even more scolding rebuke of the most controversial and divisive president of the modern era.
On eve of U.S. midterms, not all women are mobilized against Trump
If the Democrats succeed in breaking through in the U.S. midterm elections on Tuesday, November 6, 2018, it will have a lot to do with women like Callie Rennison.
Polling stations brace for barrage of voters as election day arrives in U.S.
No one knows yet if it will be red, blue or purple, but a tidal wave of energized voters is expected to flood polling stations across the United States today, November 6, 2018, as Americans deliver their early verdict on President Donald Trump.
Steve Bannon calls populists the true anti-fascists while, outside, others protest event
Ordinary people have long been shut out by political and capitalist elites who have done them immense harm, the former strategist who helped Donald Trump win the White House told a protest-delayed debate in Toronto on Friday, November 2, 2018.
Will it take a bunker to survive Trump's midterm elections?
As we count the days to the U.S. midterm elections, there’s only one question on my mind: Is it time to build a bunker?
Munk Debates: Cancelling Steve Bannon isn’t censorship
It's an absurd notion that we are adding oil to the fire of populism, harming democracy, somehow capitulating to the “flaky, easily flustered” PC crowd, or turning off moderates who will inevitably jump into the arms of white supremacy if denied the right to listen to Steve Bannon’s hateful rhetoric, writes columnist Toula Drimonis.
Squirrel Hill shooting: an ugly day in my favourite neighbourhood
After Saturday's shooting in a neighbourhood that was the best place I’ve ever lived, I feel unsafe in a way I haven’t since I was a small child.
Under fire for inciting violence, Trump renews attacks on U.S. media
Under pressure over his no-prisoners, no-apologies style following the deadliest-ever anti-Semitic attack on U.S. soil, President Donald Trump sent his supporters on Monday, October 29, 2018, a familiar conservative comeback: it's all the media's fault.
Canadians hold vigils in solidarity with Pittsburgh synagogue shooting victims
Jewish communities and citizens across Canada gathered together over the weekend to commemorate the victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting and condemn what one rabbi described as "an outrageous act of evil."