Andy Blatchford
Reporter for The Canadian Press
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Freeland to press for new labour, environmental sections within NAFTA
Chrystia Freeland will push for additional labour and environmental sections when she shares broad strokes Monday of Canada's goals for the upcoming NAFTA talks.
Influential, misinformed Canadian media hurts China-Canada relations: envoy
The envoy levelled the accusations during a lengthy interview at the Chinese Embassy in Ottawa with The Canadian Press.
Government meeting fiscal goals, inherited $18B budget deficit floor: Trudeau
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is arguing that his Liberal government has been keeping its spending promises, since it came into office with a budgetary starting point of negative $18 billion.
U.S. to take 'do no harm' approach to NAFTA talks: Trump's trade representative
Donald Trump's trade czar says U.S. negotiators will take a "do-no-harm" approach to renegotiating NAFTA amid fears that altering the deal could hurt many American agricultural sectors.
Feds stick with July 2018 deadline to legalize pot despite provincial worries
The Trudeau government is sticking with its deadline to legalize recreational marijuana by July 2018.
Trudeau rejects call for five per cent tax on broadband Internet services
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stopped the presses on Thursday, June 15, 2017, on the idea of imposing a five per cent tax on broadband Internet services.
Big banks defend their records to MPs amid allegations of questionable practices
Canada’s big banks defended their business practices Monday before a parliamentary committee that’s been exploring allegations of questionable sales methods at major financial institutions.
Trudeau ministers gather in Ottawa to meet US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin
Federal cabinet ministers sat down on Friday, June 9, 2017, with President Donald Trump's treasury secretary for meetings in Ottawa on a number of contentious cross-border topics.
Ex-bankers share allegations of shady bank sales practices with federal MPs
A committee of federal MPs heard testimony from ex−bank workers as it examines accusations of questionable — and even illegal — sales practices by some of the country’s largest financial institutions.
Government must have power in approval of infrastructure bank deals: Barton
The man who played a lead role in drawing up the blueprint for Canada's proposed infrastructure bank says the agency should not be completely independent of political oversight.