President Donald Trump

Canada’s national election campaign is just over a week old, but party leaders have already promised billions of dollars in tax cuts and programs if elected.

Concerns about overhauling the U.S. Postal Service is driving local members of the National Association of Letter Carriers to bring awareness to what they say could devastate the nation's mail system.

A full-blown trade war has erupted between the U.S and Canada. As threatened, President Donald Trump slapped crippling tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports into the U.S just after midnight on March the fourth, and Ottawa immediately began retaliation, with 25 percent tariffs on many American products.

Two words best describe the mood and the motivation that brought several hundred protesters to Niagara Square on March 4 as part of the nationally-organized “March Forth for Democracy” — frustration with President Trump’s actions and fears that he will only be more autocratic and vindictive.

The final countdown is underway; Canada is just one day away from the punishing import tariffs threatened by President Donald Trump. Canadian government officials say they still don’t know if the tariffs WILL come down on March 4th, but Canada has stepped up its campaign to persuade Trump that the tariffs are a bad idea and would hurt both countries.

US President Donald Trump has again floated the idea of Canada becoming the fifty-first state. He says he wants that due to his unsubstantiated claim that the US is paying 200 billion dollars a year to Canada. As recently as a couple of days ago, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a Canada-US economic summit that he takes Trump’s notion seriously. The summit, held in Toronto, was aimed at bolstering the Canadian economy in the face of continued threats from Washington.

An estimated 80 people spent most of the February 5th afternoon circling Niagara Square protesting President Trump and his policies and political stances.

Going back to the 1800s, the seamless and open border between the US and Canada has been a key economic linchpin in both the Southern Ontario and the Buffalo-Niagara region. But the proposed 25% tariffs that President Trump wanted to impose on Canadian-made goods bound for the US put a big dent in those relations - even with the 30 days pause now in effect.

President Donald Trump has given Canada and Mexico a one-month reprieve from punishing tariffs that were to go into effect today (Tuesday, Feb 4th, 2025)