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Uncertainty still hangs over the Canadian economy despite U.S. President Donald Trump announcing a 30-day pause in tariffs that were to take effect today. The temporary reprieve halts — at least for now — a continental trade war that economists on both sides of the border warned would raise prices. Trump’s decision meant Canada and […]

DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. government’s road safety agency wants the auto industry to design new vehicles including i ncreasingly large SUVs and pickup trucks so they reduce pedestrian deaths and injuries. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Monday that it’s proposing a new rule setting testing and performance requirements to minimize the risk of pedestrian […]

Canada lost the women’s world hockey championship gold medal on home ice to the United States last year, so poetic justice will be on the minds of Canadian players Sunday in Utica, N.Y. The two countries will clash for women’s international ice hockey supremacy at the Adirondack Bank Center a year after the U.S. doubled […]

A lawyer for Donald Trump said Thursday he’d been told that the former president has been indicted in New York on charges involving payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to silence claims of an extramarital sexual encounter. It becomes the first-ever criminal case against a former U.S. president and a jolt to Trump’s bid […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Barbara Walters, the intrepid interviewer, anchor and program host who blazed the way as the first woman to become a TV news superstar during a career remarkable for its duration and variety, has died. She was 93. ABC broke into its broadcast to announce Walters‘ death on air Friday night. “She lived her life with no […]

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Millions of people hunkered down against a deep freeze Sunday to ride out the winter storm that has killed at least 25 people across the United States and is expected to claim more lives after trapping some residents inside houses with heaping snow drifts and knocking out power to several hundred […]

Saskatchewan’s premier has given his thoughts after Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States. Scott Moe took to social media on Wednesday and wished “success and prosperity” for the Biden administration while touching on his aspirations for the Saskatchewan-United States relationship moving forward. Today, America inaugurated the 46th President […]

A convicted sex offender and child pornographer is now in Regina and changed his name after being released from a U.S. prison. The Saskatchewan Gazette says as of December 20th, the 76-year-old, formerly known as David Shumey, became David Stryker. In 1999 Stryker was sentenced to 20 years to life after sexually assaulting a seven […]

WASHINGTON — One day after its historic impeachment votes, the Democratic-led House gave U.S. President Donald Trump an overwhelming bipartisan victory Thursday on a renegotiated trade agreement with Canada and Mexico. By a 385-41 vote, the House approved a bill that puts in place terms of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. The legislation passed after House […]

OTTAWA — The United States and Mexico have confirmed an agreement has been reached on a new North American free trade deal. U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in Washington today that congressional Democrats were supportive of the changes, which paves the way for implementing legislation to finally be tabled in Congress. Mexican President Andres […]