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Key round of NAFTA talks opens amid upbeat signs

Jan. 23, 2018 at 4:32 pm CST

Montreal | Reuters — Officials opened a key round of negotiations to modernize NAFTA on Tuesday amidst optimistic signs, as U.S. President Donald Trump said the talks were going “pretty well” and Canada’s chief negotiator said he had high hopes for progress. Trump’s remarks helped the Mexican peso stem its […]

Canada in on TPP pact, to be signed in March

Jan. 23, 2018 at 10:58 am CST

By Kaori Kaneko Takashi Umekawa

Officials aim to forge ahead with TPP as Canada wavers

Jan. 22, 2018 at 1:45 am CST

By Reuters

Trudeau to boost support for NAFTA in U.S. as talks intensify

Jan. 19, 2018 at 6:00 pm CST

By David Ljunggren

Montreal round of NAFTA talks extended to Jan. 29

Jan. 18, 2018 at 1:06 pm CST

By Reuters

Ottawa tightens rules on housing foreign farm workers

Jan. 12, 2018 at 6:04 pm CST

Housing meant for temporary foreign workers employed on a Canadian farm will now have to pass regular inspection before the farm can hire its workers. One of the requirements for farms hiring temporary foreign workers (TFWs) is that the farm provide workers with “adequate, suitable and affordable housing as defined […]

By Staff

Canada welcomes Trump suggestion of NAFTA deadline extension

Jan. 12, 2018 at 10:38 am CST

London, Ont. | Reuters — Canada welcomes the suggestion by U.S. President Donald Trump that the deadline for concluding talks to modernize NAFTA could be extended beyond the end of March, Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland told reporters on Friday. Trump told the Wall Street Journal on Thursday that “a lot […]

By Reuters

Food riots grip western Venezuela

Jan. 12, 2018 at 12:17 am CST

San Cristobal/Barinas, Venezuela | Reuters — Hungry mobs ransacked a food collection centre and a supermarket in Venezuela’s western Andean state of Merida on Thursday and reportedly even slaughtered cattle grazing in a field as unrest over food shortages spread through the country. An opposition lawmaker from Merida, Carlos Paparoni, […]

By Anggy Polanco Francisco Aguilar

Canada talks tough on trade as NAFTA talks’ endgame nears

Jan. 11, 2018 at 6:22 pm CST

London, Ont. | Reuters — Canada is talking tough with the U.S., stressing its determination to push back against what it says are unfair trade practices ahead of crucial talks to revamp the tri-nation North American Free Trade Agreement. U.S., Canadian and Mexican officials meet this month for the sixth […]

By David Ljunggren

Canadian companies struggle to plan for post-NAFTA world

Jan. 11, 2018 at 5:56 pm CST

Toronto | Reuters — Canadian industries that would be most acutely impacted by the death of the North American Free Trade Agreement are unable to meaningfully plan for a possible post-NAFTA world given the uncertainty of what could replace it, analysts and executives said. With three quarters of Canadian exports […]

By Alastair Sharp