James McCarten
Washington correspondent, The Canadian Press
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U.S. 'road map' ahead of Trudeau-Biden meeting focuses on mutual interests, avoids Canadian potholes
The White House did not acknowledge Canada's own wish list for President Joe Biden's meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, focusing instead Tuesday on areas of "shared vision" and "mutual concern."
Canada and the U.S. auto sector's abrupt pivot to electric vehicles
The storied North American automotive industry, the ultimate showcase of Canada's high-tensile trade ties with the United States, is about to navigate a dramatic hairpin turn.
Podesta on Biden's Keystone XL decision: 'He's not going back'
A senior adviser to two former U.S. presidents delivered a stark message on Friday, February 12, 2021, to Canadians hoping for the resurrection of the Keystone XL pipeline: get over it.
U.S. trade commission dismisses complaint about Canadian blueberries
The panel that evaluates international trade disputes in the United States has squashed a complaint about Canadian blueberries.
Second impeachment trial for Donald Trump underway in U.S. Senate
United States senators relived a terrifying day of reckoning for American democracy on Tuesday, February 9, 2021, as they began the process of deciding the political future of former president Donald Trump.
Biden signs executive order instituting strict new Buy American regimen
President Joe Biden imposed stringent new made-in-America rules for U.S. government spending Monday. They come with a caveat likely troubling to Canada: exceptions to those rules will be allowed only under "very limited circumstances."
Trudeau, Biden chat as death of Keystone XL reverberates in Canada
Joe Biden's White House has a lot in common cause with Canada, Justin Trudeau said Friday as he urged people to look past the new U.S. president's decision to kill off the Keystone XL pipeline project.
Biden's first foreign-leader call is with Trudeau and Keystone XL is on the agenda
If Joe Biden's decision to kill off Keystone XL is supposed to sound the death knell for Canada-U.S. relations, you wouldn't know it from the newly minted president's call sheet.
Anxiety gives way to elation as Trump takes off, Biden takes over as president
U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris, the first woman and person of colour to hold the title, took the oath of office Wednesday on the very spot where Trump's own supporters tried to lay waste to Capitol Hill.
Trudeau says he'll fight to persuade U.S. about merits of Keystone XL pipeline
Canada won't stop trying to convince Joe Biden of the merits of Keystone XL, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau insisted on Tuesday, January 19, 2021, despite reports the U.S. president-elect appears poised to sign the pipeline project's death warrant.