James McCarten
Washington correspondent, The Canadian Press
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Canada cheers automobile foreign content win as Trudeau wraps Mexico summit visit
Canada and Mexico basked on Wednesday, January 11, 2023, in the glow of a major trade win over the United States as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wrapped up a trilateral summit aimed at charting a course for North American excellence.
Trudeau meets with Mexico's Obrador on final day of North American summit
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is to meet one-on-one with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador today, January 11, 2023, as he wraps up his time at the North American Leaders' Summit.
Biden to visit Canada in March, PMO announces at 'Three Amigos' meeting
Justin Trudeau and Joe Biden tied up a pair of bilateral loose ends on Tuesday, January 10, 2023: one for Canadians who frequently cross the Canada-U.S. border, the other for a certain U.S. president who has yet to do so.
Trudeau and Biden meet as North American summit in Mexico begins
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Joe Biden are meeting face to face this morning as the North American Leaders' Summit begins in earnest.
Biden to sign law to protect same-sex marriage as time runs out on House Democrats
President Joe Biden is poised to sign into U.S. law new federal protections for same-sex marriages, a step aimed at defending civil liberties that some fear are in danger because of a conservative Supreme Court.
Judge orders Enbridge, Indigenous band in U.S. to consider 'imperfect' alternatives to Line 5 shutdown
A Wisconsin judge ordered a Canadian energy giant and a U.S. Indigenous band to water down their wine Monday and come together to avert the "draconian" shutdown of the cross-border Line 5 pipeline.
Fears rise that Elon Musk's Twitter takeover and free-speech vision means more social division
For a platform that once only allowed sentences as long as this one, the teeter-totter fate of Twitter sure is consuming a lot of oxygen.
Trump announces fresh bid for U.S. presidency
It's setting up as a right-wing clash of the titans, a battle royal between Republican leviathans in search of the ultimate political prize.
Freeland urges world to get serious about a Putin-era strategy for energy, economy, climate
Canada's deputy prime minister urged the world's democracies on Tuesday, October 11, 2022, to confront the hard economic truths of a perilous new world order and seek common cause in the shared values of prosperity, energy security, protecting the planet and free and fair trade.
Biden offers pardons to people with records for simple pot possession
President Joe Biden is pardoning people convicted under federal law of possessing marijuana — and signalling that he's willing to revisit whether cannabis should remain a controlled substance in the United States.