James McCarten
Washington correspondent, The Canadian Press
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Canadian producers cheer WTO decision on softwood lumber
Canadian lumber producers cheered the latest decision on Monday, August 24, 2020, from the World Trade Organization on Canada's long-standing dispute with its largest trading partner over exports of softwood lumber — a finding the United States quickly denounced as unfair, biased and flawed.
U.S. students to be permitted entry
The federal government appears to have relaxed restrictions at the Canada-U.S. border that would have made it impossible for first-year university students from the United States to enter the country.
Will Trump ever go?
Because it's 2020, anyone anxious about this year's presidential election has a new problem to worry about: the possibility that a defeated Donald Trump won't be willing to leave the West Wing.
Students from COVID-ravaged U.S. causing dread in Canada
Post-secondary students from the pandemic-riven United States are getting ready to go back to school in Canada — a rite of passage that's causing more anxiety than usual for parents and front-line university workers alike in the age of COVID-19.
Don't expect Canada-U.S. border to open anytime soon
Canada and the United States are now widely expected to extend their mutual ban on non-essential cross-border travel as COVID-19 destroys President Donald Trump's hopes for a quick end to America's public-health nightmare.
Trudeau urges Trump to think twice
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau urged Donald Trump to think twice on Monday, July 13, 2020, before imposing new tariffs on Canadian aluminum, saying the sector is emerging from the pandemic-induced production stance that prompted the White House to consider such measures in the first place.
Rep. Adam Schiff couldn't resist: "We may all be moving to Canada soon"
A Canadian cabinet minister was among the guests waiting in the virtual wings of a recent Zoom panel when the moderator posed one last question to the chairman of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee, promising the discussion would "move to Canada" next.
Democracies must unite in disinformation fight, LeBlanc says
Canada, the United States and democracies around the world have lessons to share and plenty more to learn in what federal cabinet minister Dominic LeBlanc said on Monday, June 29, 2020, must be a collective, global effort to fight the scourge of online disinformation.
Tariff threats resurface as USMCA readies for Wednesday debut
If the long-awaited debut of Canada's new trade pact with the United States and Mexico heralds a new dawn in North American relations, Robert Lighthizer sure has a funny way of showing it.
Protesters flood streets as anger, tributes for George Floyd continue
People of all colours, creeds, ages and walks of life flooded the national capital on Saturday, June 6, 2020, to vent their anger over the police killing of George Floyd, encountering two very different, larger-than-life symbols along the way — a study in political contrasts along a fractured America's most active fault line.